{"id":4799,"date":"2014-01-18T06:44:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T11:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2014-01-18T06:44:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T11:44:35","slug":"heres-something-to-think-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4799","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s something to think about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:WordDocument>\n<w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n<w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n<w:PunctuationKerning\/>\n<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>\n<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>\n<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>\n<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>\n<w:Compatibility>\n<w:BreakWrappedTables\/>\n<w:SnapToGridInCell\/>\n<w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>\n<w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>\n<w:DontGrowAutofit\/>\n<w:UseFELayout\/>\n<\/w:Compatibility>\n<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>\n<\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\">\n<\/w:LatentStyles>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n table.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\n\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\n\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\n\tmso-para-margin:0cm;\n\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-ansi-language:#0400;\n\tmso-fareast-language:#0400;\n\tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}\n<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">Imagine that you had won the following *PRIZE* in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400.00 in your private account for your use. However, this prize has the following rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">Everything that you didn&#8217;t spend during each day would be taken away from you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">You may not simply transfer money into some other account.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">You may only spend it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400.00 for that day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say, \u201cGame Over&#8221; ! It can close the account and you will not receive a new one.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">What would you personally do? You would buy anything and everything you wanted, right? Not only for yourself, but for all people you love. Even for people you don&#8217;t know, because you couldn&#8217;t possibly spend it all on yourself, right? You would try to spend every cent, and use it all?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">So, the remarkable thing about this scenario, is that it exists with each of our lives. Each of us in a winner of this prize \u2013 for the prize is TIME. <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">Each morning we awaken to receive 86,400 seconds as a gift of life,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">And when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is NOT credited to us.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">What we haven&#8217;t lived up that day is forever lost<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">Yesterday is forever gone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time WITHOUT WARNING.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\"> Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in dollars. Think about that. Enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than we can imagine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">So the question becomes, what will you do with your 86,400 seconds today?<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/> <br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4800\" alt=\"42-01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/42-01-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/42-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/42-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/42-01.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine that you had won the following *PRIZE* in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400.00 in your private account for your use. 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