Time Does Creep

An hour never happens all at once and neither does a year. Each part of time creeps slowly but surely; it is thus up to us not to be overtaken by time. Everything and anything that can ever happen has its appointed time, the only thing to ask ourselves is that do we ever recognize this.

The day has twenty four hours (24 hrs), which means they are one thousand four hundred and forty minutes (1 140mins) which are in themselves eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds (86 400secs) which are potential moments of activities. The statement that there is a time appointed for everything simply means that for each thing that we want to accomplish there is enough time given to it, we simply have to recognize when the right time is. It is like a person stuck in a house where the windows are shut. It might happen that the windows only open at one in the morning for an hour. At that time the window is the only opening that exists for the person to be able to escape and experience a new world. The interesting thing is that when the window opens most of us are sleeping so hence we never see it opening or sometimes we try to wait and stay awake but by the time it is one in the morning we have already dozed off.

Every second that passes by is an opportunity to make a decision or do something different. A lot of us have the problem of delay. We delay quite a bit and later on we are in a rush or we simply miss the time completely. Whether you believe it or not there is always enough time for preparation, but what you need to do is understand what needs to be done and then begin preparing. You do not start preparing for the baby when the baby is one month away from delivery you prepare nine months before the baby even arrives. It is like someone who wants to start a business for selling clothes. The person can sit and pray for capital to come to them but if they do not have the designs, the company name, the logo, the marketing plan ready when the capital finally comes they will lose the opportunity to sell because all they will have is the money and not the capability to set up the company. If the person received the capital today and an order was placed two days later yet they have no idea about their designs or logo it is as good as they do not have the capital because they will fail to provide.

People will sit and make resolutions about what they will achieve in the year. The funny thing is the month of March will come and go as time marches on and they never realize that they are losing time. What we need to learn is that in order to succeed we need to walk with time. The properties of time are simple, time is always on the move and so should we; It is like catching the bus. Think of the bus as time and the stop area where the bus is supposed to stop as the achievement of life. All you have to do is get into the bus at three at that particular time. So two things must happen; the first is that you must meet the bus at three in the afternoon and the second thing is that you must get into the bus. If you delay you might get there whilst the bus has already passed or you might see the bus moving away; it is the same with time. If we sit and watch time pass us by we will never move with it and find the success we want. So at most times we sit and watch as the day starts and finishes but we never do a single thing to change our position in life simply because we never utilize the resource of time.

If you want to be successful in business or life do not become partner with people who cannot keep time or make appointments, such people will make you lose the windows of opportunities. In life do not stake your life based on what a person who cannot keep time promises you for the future in terms of what they can deliver, you will only be disappointed. Time is a resource which we can use but never keep. It is a resource which is always flowing with specific things in it. Think of time as a river flowing down hill which does not have the same things in it all the time, in some seasons it is full of migrating fish which you can catch, in some seasons it has frogs, in some seasons it is dammed by beavers such that for that while you can enjoy its slow motions in that dam state. If you miss the season of the migrating fish do not expect to catch that type of fish in the season of the frogs; rather understand what is in the river and what you can use it for. This is how time is like; if you do not make the appointment with time do not expect time to always bring you the same things. You cannot expect to catch the three o’clock bus at five o’clock because it has already passed. Time is full of windows all around us and we only need but to look and we will see what appointments exist for us. For some it is the window for business, for some it is the window for building, for some it is the window for book writing, whilst for some it is the window for just resting, whilst for some it is the window for having babies, whilst for some it is the window for having a relationship and the list of windows goes on. For everything on earth there is a season and a time. If you watch the sky for a day or two you will see what I mean.

The reason why most of us are frustrated is because we have not yet learned how to read time. Sure we can read the clock that is this hour and that minute but very few of us actually read time. This is why most of us are busy doing things which are not meant for us and when we fail we kick ourselves and resign, giving up yet if we had only learnt how to read time, to truly read, we would know that there is nothing impossible on earth. It’s just a matter of time.

Winston is the author of several books. His breakthrough book was “You Have All Been Fooled”, a book about power, ability, and sheer determination in life. Winston’s books are available on the following
You Have All Been Fooled at Amazon
You Have All Been Fooled at Author’s Page
Four Reasons Why Absolute World Peace is Impossible With Humans
The Spark of Life, Success and Relationships
The Book of Revelation Series

Beyond the Anthill into the Hidden Secrets

For the most part of our lives we consider ourselves lucky or just clever believing it I the reason why we are successful. We fail to realize that we are no different from ants on an anthill that cannot see beyond the anthill into the hidden secrets of life.

For an ant its surrounding are what it sees as the size of the world, yet at any moment a cup of water, a sudden footstep or small cigarette could kill the ant without a moment’s notice. Around the ant due to its size and hence its limitations so many things could occur. In our lives we are no different from the ant. As you walk around the city you have no idea what is around the corner, you can believe it is still the same as you saw it before but like a good driver you know things can change in a second. When driving you keep your eyes open because at any time the clear road can be full of cars, a child crossing the road, a stray animal, a careless driver, a big pothole and so many other things. Being alert does not make you clever it just makes you wise but that does not make you safe. Why it does not make you safe is the very fact that you do not control anything outside yourself. The pedestrian walking on the side of the road could decide to jump in front of your car, the stray animal could just jump into the road from seemingly nowhere, and the driver in the other oncoming lane could just swerve into your car, you could blink and suddenly you are inside a pothole, the cars you think are surrounding you as you travel, one of them could just blow up in front of you causing a pile up.

Time is another entity which we think we control when we are planning. We make so many plans based on time yet it is not ours in the first place. We speak of tomorrow and how we are going to achieve this and that yet time is only but the present. Whilst you are planning your tomorrow someone else could be planning their tomorrow which affects your future. For example the ant could be planning to start working on a new opening beside the ant hill yet unknown to the ant there is a human being planning to create a new house right where the ant lives. So the ant will wake up ready to start creating the opening and the human shows up with a grading machine to destroy the ant hill. Both have planned but only one will receive a favorable outcome. This is how it is in life, you plan to so many things in the future but you actually have no idea what the movement is planning, what your boss is planning, what the regions are planning, what your neighbors are planning, what the market will be like, what the weather will do at that time and certainly what your own family will also do. This does not mean do not plan for the future but it does mean you need to understand the secret beyond the future for an ant on an anthill.

Most of us think that we can hide and be in secret with our plans or we can just disappear from sight and all will be well. We believe that if we hide our plans or act in secret no one sees us, yet it will never guarantee that we are not seen. Ti an ant on an anthill, it can hide beside the bush next to the hill believing no one can see it, but unknown to it a human who stands right next to it can see everything. One of our greatest weaknesses as human is believing that we are the most intelligent and the only advanced existence in the world yet everything in life has a hierarchy. It is pure logic. If an ant cannot see the whole field it means there is something else that can, it could be the beetle because it flies, but the beetle cannot see the entire ground as it stretches beyond the field so that maybe seen by the dragon fly, but again the dragon fly cannot see the whole country so that could be seen by the birds, the birds on the other hand cannot see the entire earth so that is left to the humans, now the humans might be able to look into the sky but surely they cannot see the entire universe or even dream of going to every single part of the universe so that is left to some other existence. The point is this, life has different levels of existence and you should know your place. Our lives on earth are just like the ant and we should believe that there is someone out there bigger than us who can see beyond our anthill.

The hidden secrets of life are not really secrets they are just things we fail o accept or realize. We are not that clever neither are we that intelligent. The fact that in our present day we have no technology to build pyramids should show us that we are not that advanced, the fact that we cannot survive a simple hurricane should tell us we are just like an ant which is threatened by a cup of flowing water, the fact that we are powerless to stop a large meteorite from destroying the earth just means we are as powerless as an ant against man’s grading machine, the fact that we are stuck on earth and cannot go anywhere else due to our abilities, it just means we are like an ant which cannot move too far away from its anthill.

Be wise and know your place. A little prayer in the morning goes a long way. Faith in the right belief can save your life. Hope in what really matters can prolong your life. In all that you do acknowledge the truth and you will find the secrets beyond the anthill.

Winston is the author of several books. His breakthrough book was “You Have All Been Fooled”, a book about power, ability, and sheer determination in life. Winston’s books are available on the following
You Have All Been Fooled at Amazon
You Have All Been Fooled at Author’s Page
Four Reasons Why Absolute World Peace is Impossible With Humans
The Spark of Life, Success and Relationships
The Book of Revelation Series