If there is 60 minutes in every hour, 24 hours in each day, and 7 days in one week that means we have 10,080 minutes in one week. How will you chose spend those minutes this week? Will you choose to spend them unhappy or will you choose to spend them happy? Will you spend your minutes on endeavors that will not promote your spiritual well-being or will you choose to spend them on tasks that will help refuel your “Happiness Tanks?” Remember a week is from Sunday to Saturday, so at midnight last night you are already down to 8,640 minutes. How do you plan on spending those remaining minutes and how do you plan on making up for those lost minutes?
They say that money
can’t buy happiness, but why do we see so many happy people? I believe that we
see so many happy rich people because that is what we want to see. I would
challenge each one of you to open your eyes a little wider and I think you will
see that there are happy middle class and happy poor people out there. On the
flip side, I believe you would see that there are unhappy rich people. The
difference in the happy and the unhappy isn’t money, it is choice. The happy
choose to spend their 10,080 minutes engrossed in activities that make them
happy, not in those activities that make them unhappy.
I know what you will
say next, because I have used it some many times, “but some of the things that are
happening to me are not my fault, they are out of my control.” True and I said that
once to an older coworker and her response was, “suck it up fat boy. We all have a sad story to tell, that’s
life.” After I got done thinking the nerve of this old bag, I realized that she
was overwhelmingly right. We all have things that are out of our control happen
to us on a daily basis and that isn’t the important part of our story. The important part is how we react to those
situations. Do we choose to let the situation rule us or do we rule the
situation? Do we choose the path of unhappiness or do we choose the path of
happiness? Do we give up or do we stand up and prepare for the next round?
If you were asked to
write a story of how you spent every minute of one week and share it with the
world, could you do it? Could you one write it, two share it with the world,
and three would you be proud of it? Would it be a success story or would it be
a tragedy you would write? Would it be 10,080 minutes of complaining about how
God gave you a bad hand or would it be 10,080 minutes of reflection on what was
given to you and how you choose to deal with each. God has given us 10,080
minutes in one week. The choice of how
we spend those minutes is up to us. Maybe we will stumble one minute into the
week, but that doesn’t mean that we have to spend the next 10,079 minutes
crying over that lost minute. It just means that we have 10,079 minutes to
finish strong. No matter if we have had 10,079 minutes of crap in one week, we
still have one minute to finish strong. Each minute of our life is like a pixel
in a picture. It takes every pixel to
make a picture, just like it takes every minute to make a life. We are going to
have bad minutes, maybe bad hours and yes bad days, but we have to choose to
turn those bad minutes into good minutes in hopes that we will have good hours
and yes good days.
How will you choose to
live your minutes this week?
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