Do You Really Want To?

Time is a created thing. To say, ‘I don’t have time’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.’ – Lao Tzu

What do you spend your time doing?

The key is that time is a limited resource and what you do with it matters.

When you say you can’t do something it’s because you’ve decided (consciously or otherwise) that something else was more important.

What you spend your time on is what you decided matters (even if you decided a long time ago, and/or by default . . . ).

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