60 minutes to a happy hour, 24 hours to a happy day, 7 days to a happy week

One of the most inspiring and depressing quotes is, "from the moment you are born you start dying!" As basic, shocking, and heart breaking as it is this is the truth. I prefer to look at it in a positive note. If I live to be, let's say 80 years old. If there is 365 days in a year and one day equals 1,440 minutes (60 minutes in an hour multiplied by 24 hours a day) then I have 42,048,000 in my lifetime to make everything I want happen (1,440 minutes in one day multiplied by 365 days in a year equals 525,600 minutes in a year a non leap year multiplied by 80 years equals around 42,048,000 minutes in that life time. Give or take a few and not counting in leap years). Everything over that I will consider a bonus.

Each minute of your life is a blessing and should be used to the best of your ability. You never know when your time will truly be up. My 1st wife, if my math is right, only got to use 14,252,610 minutes, but in those few minutes she inspired masses with her kindness and her words. What will you do with yours? Below is a blog that I wrote 4/17/14 and I wanted to share this for review because as I go forward with my Blog you will hear some of these statements used. Hope you enjoy this throw back:

60 minutes to a happy hour, 24 hours to a happy day, 7 days to a happy week

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 so 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?