The Value of Time – Watch Before You Waste Time
Jay Shetty

When asked “what is the biggest mistake we make in life?” 
The Buddha replied: “The biggest mistake is you think you have time.”

Time is free, but it’s priceless.
You can’t own it, but you can use it.
You can’t keep it, but you can spend it.
And once it is lost you can never get it back.

The average person lives 78 years.
We spend 28.3 years of our life sleeping.
That’s almost a third of our life, but 30% of us struggle to sleep well.
We spend 10.5 years of our life working, but over 50% of us want to leave our current jobs.
Time is more valuable than money.
You can get more money, but you can never get more time.
We spend 9 years on T.V. and social media.
We spend 6 years doing chores.
We sped 4 years eating and drinking.
We spend 3.5 years in education.
We spend 2.5 years grooming.
We spend 2.5 years shopping.
We spend 1 and half years in child care.
We spend 1.3 years commuting.
That leaves us with 9 years.  How will we spend that time?

Steve Jobs said: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
So, there’s good news and there’s bad news.
The bad news is time flies; the good news is you’re the pilot.

Imagine you wake up every day with $86,400 in your bank account, and at the end of the night it is all gone whether you spent it or not.
And then the next day you get another $86,400.
What would we do with it?
Everyday 86,400 seconds are deposited into your life account.
At the end of the day once they’re all used up, you get a new 86,400 seconds.
We would never waste it if it was money, so why do we waste it when it comes to time?
Those seconds are so much more powerful than dollars because you can always make more dollars, you can’t always make more time.
To realize the value of 1 year, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of 1 month, ask a mother who lost their child in the final month.
To realize the value of 1 week, as the editor of an online magazine. 
To realize the value of 1 hour, ask the couple who’s in a long distance relationship.
To realize the value of 1 minute, ask the person who just missed a bus, train, or plane.
To realize the value of 1 second, as the person who just missed an accident.
To realize the value of a millisecond, ask the person who just came 2nd at the Olympics.

We think that it’s people wasting our time, but It’s really us giving them the permission to do that.
And in reality, these 2 people live inside us.
Don’t let someone be a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Some of us lose the people most important to us because we don’t value their time.
Some of us don’t recognize how important someone is to us until they’re gone.

Inside all of us are 2 voices:
One voice that wants to uplift, one voice that want to us expand, one voice that want us to grow.
And then there’s the other voice: the voice that holds us back.  The voice that makes us lazy.  The voice that makes us complacent.  The voice that restricts us from our potential.  
Every day from the moment we wake up until the moment we go to sleep, inside of use there’s this battle between the two voices.
And guess which one wins?
The one that we listen to the most.
The one that we feed.
The one that we amplify.

It is our choice of how we use our time.
Life and time are the best two teachers.
Life teaches us to make good use of time and time teaches us the value of life.

And as William Shakespeare said: 
“Time is very slow for those who want,
very fast for those two are scared,
very long for those who are sad,
and very short for those who celebrate.
But for those who love, time is eternal.”

如果你問佛，我們人生命中犯過最糟糕的錯誤是什麼？
佛會說： 人類犯最大的錯是 以為一切都還有時間

時間是免錢的，但在很多時候也是無價的
你沒辦法擁有時間，但你可以好好地規劃時間
一旦時間過了，就再也回不去了

人類平均活78歲
我們花了28.3年睡覺、幾乎是三分之一的時間都在睡，但百分之三十的人們卻有睡眠障礙
我們花10.5年在工作上，但是有百分之50的人們想要辭職，
時間比金錢重要
你可以賺更多錢但你沒辦法賺更多時間
我們花了九年在電視與社群媒體上
花了六年在做家事
花四年在吃飯上
花3.5年在教育上
花2.5年在為整理儀容
花2.5年在購物上
花1.5年在兒童教養上
花1.3年在交通上
最後只剩下 九年的時間，我們會怎麼花這些時間？

賈伯斯曾說過
你的時間是有限的，別浪費在為別人而活上
壞消息是時間飛逝
好消息是我們是時間的主人

想像你每天起床銀行戶頭裡自動存入86400美金
當一天結束後，不管你有沒有花這些錢，他們全都會消失，
隔天你又會收到新的86400美金，你會如何運用這些錢？
每一天86400秒都存進你的生命銀行，
一天過去後，你又會得到全新的86400秒的新生活，
如果是金錢的話，我們根本不可能浪費這些錢
但為什麼當86400是時間時，我們就可以咨意浪費呢？

每分每秒都比金錢還重要，因為如果想要我們隨時都可以賺更多錢，但卻不能賺更多時間
如果你想知道一年有多重要
問被降級的學生就可以知道
如果你想知道一個月有多重要
問問在最後一個月失去孩子的媽媽
如果你想知道一個禮拜有多重要
問問雜誌的總編輯
如果你想知道一個小時有多重要
問問那些在遠距離戀愛的情侶
如果你想知道一分鐘有多重要
問問那些一分鐘前剛錯過公車、火車、飛機的人吧
如果你想知道一秒鐘可以有多重要
問問那些差一秒鐘 幸運閃過車禍的人
如果你想知道一毫秒有多重要
問問在奧林匹克運動場上第二名的跑者

我們總是認為是別人害我們浪費時間
但其實是我們讓別人有機會浪費我們的時間
別把他人設成首要選擇
特別是當對方覺得我們是可有可無的
有些人因為沒有好好珍惜彼此的時間，失去最重要的人
有些人直到對方離世了才知道對方有多重

我們每個人心中都有兩個聲音
一個聲音想要更上進、更成長、成就更多
另一個聲音使我們懶惰、使我們無法發揮潛能
每天從我們起床到睡覺，這兩個聲音總環繞在我們周圍
猜猜看哪個聲音贏了？
那個你聽從最多次的贏了。
那個我們縱容它長大的聲音贏了

如何善用時間 選擇權在我們手上
生命和時間是兩個最棒的老師
生命教導我們好好善用時間
而時間教導我們生命的價值

如同莎士比亞說過的
對需要的人來說，時間總是過的很慢
對恐懼的人來說，時間總是過得很快
對傷心的人來說，時間總是特別長
對慶祝的人來說，時間總是特別短
但是對那些有愛的人來說，時間是永恆的