1. There is a cumulative value to investing small amounts of time in certain activities over a long period of time.
- Exercising
- Eating right
- Spending time with those we love
- Going to church
- Giving time, talent and treasure to the work of the Lord
2. Neglect has a cumulative value as well
- Ignore your health for 15 years
- Ignore your children
- Ignore your wife
3. Rarely are there any immediate consequences for neglecting a single installment of time in any particular area
Sleeping in one Sunday
- Missing one deposit on something you are saving for
4. In the critical areas of life you cannot make up for time lost
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You can cram for a test but you can’t cram for a relationship
If you have neglected your wife for years
One weekend away is not going to make up for it
If you have neglected your children for years
One nice gift is not going to catch you up
You must start over again
And build little by little
There is no cumulative value to the urgent things we all allow to interfere with what is most important
- If you take all of the things that you spent time doing instead of what you were supposed to be doing and add them up - they will add up to nothing
- Sleeping - watching TV - working too much - manicuring your lawn
- Looking back people ask - What did I do with all my time? Where did it go?
- What happened to the relationships that were important long after the golf score, fish, lawn have been forgotten
