In Just a few days my youngest son turns three years old….already! Where did three years go so fast? As I take a minute to think back over the last three years I realize just how much time we have been able to share together, all the things we have done, and how our relationship has grown and changed so much over the course of our time together. However if I could go back, there is so much more I would have liked to have done with him, and the rest of our family.
Time is so deceptively cruel, as it constantly rolls forward be we sometimes are lulled to sleep by it’s gentle tick, tock, tick, tock. It’s milestones like Birthdays that help to remind us that time has indeed passed, and another year of our precious time is behind us!
That is what makes our daily habits so powerful. What we do even in the smallest capacity, has the power to radically change our lives over the course of time.
Imagine if you made a conscious decision and commitment to train for just 4% of your day, each and every day between Birthdays. What would you look like at that next celebration? How would you feel? How would the quality of your health, relationships, and happiness be affected by this small change in your life?
There is a saying in chess that applies to life and time “all the pieces go back in the same box when the game is over”. However it doesn’t address how much they made of the board they were placed on, how they enjoyed the game they were in, and how they affected the rest of the board!
What will your impact be, what will you make of your time in the game, will you long for time to make one more move or will you move off the board knowing you played a game worth remembering?
-Joshua Page, www.hickorymartialarts.com
