Return on Time Invested (ROTI)
Unlike
other resources that a person spends money and time to acquire, TIME is the
only resource that is given free of charge to everyone in equal proportion.
Everyone has twenty four hours in a day to either work with or play with
depending on the person's priorities. Time is free, readily accessible and is
affordable by anyone. However, time is a very valuable resource that requires
strategic, wise and adequate processing for profitable returns. Time wisely and
properly processed works to advantage but time that is not wisely and properly
processed turns geniuses, princes and princesses to slaves and servants. The
wise use of time is the difference between poverty and wealth, a sound mind and
an unsound mind, a gossip and a builder of men and women, children and youths.
One
of the greatest gifts you can bestow on yourself is to know who and what to
spend time on as well as learn to say an emphatic NO to people and activities
that waste your time. Fifteen minutes of gossip can take out ten years of
development and progress from your life. How?
You will always go back to that gossip time with your partner about
almost every day and fifteen minutes will stretch to thirty minutes and so on
until you get so used to gossiping that it becomes a full time or part time
job. So also is waiting for hours on end for a friend, associate attending to
their affairs while you are just sitting there at a corner doing nothing
constructive but waiting. Waiting endlessly for nothing is not only such a
waste of time, limitations and hindrances on your progress, it is also bondage.
The earlier you break off such limiting relationships, the better for you. The
same principle applies to other wasteful activities such as watching just any
movie for days on end without learning any applicational lessons that will move
you forward in life.
Do
the right thing at the right time; and make every effort to do the right thing
right the first time. To achieve this, you must be disciplined, organized,
courageous, consistent, sacrificial, patient, and humble, be willing to learn
and practice continuously, corrigible and hardworking. The best and fastest way
to move forward in life is to learn. Believe you do not know it all and learn.
The time spent learning saves you the trouble of hazarding guesses, gives you
sufficient leverage to plan and prepare.
One
of the greatest secrets of time is wise planning. Always plan for anything you
want to do. Lack of planning signifies inability to think. Apply the same
hard-line principle of not throwing away your money to time. Time is too
precious to throw away in frivolities with time wasting people and activities.
Time incidentally is also money and power.
Time
is what transforms seeds sown in right soil to harvests of bread and fresh
seeds for further multiplication. Time is what transforms a baby into a
toddler, a toddler into a teenager and a teenager into an adult; into a parent,
a grandparent; into a leader and what have you.
Time
is what transforms the promises of God, read and understood, meditated upon,
prayed and prophesied into manifestations of the promises. Time is what turns
thoughts and ideas that are creatively and strategically processed into
finished products such as institutions, corporations, goods and services that
rake in money.
