Last Updated on September 7, 2025

Today I was driving my car and conversing with my friend over the phone. Then suddenly, I got an insight into the conversation about nothing insightful or important. Then for some reason, I instantly ended the call. I spent the rest of the drive analyzing how much time I wasted during the past thirty-six years, from watching repetitive plots in action movies to oversleeping. If you think about it, the whole world revolves around time. We sell our time for money and exchange it for goods that supposedly save us time.

However, I never analyzed how well I plan my time on Earth. Looking back, I wouldn’t have wasted it constantly playing video games as a kid and doing a job I hated for minimum wage as an adult. Time is the most precious thing we have on Earth. From now on, every second of my life will be correctly spent and goal aligned. Time is nothing we can buy, and once it’s gone, it is gone forever.

A better way of planning how we spend our time is constantly asking ourselves a few times a day, is this time well spent, and does it align with our life goals and purpose? Is this very second destructive or productive? Will I look back at this time in my life as time well used or wasted years? As the old saying goes, “Plan.” Consider this your friendly time reminder from father time.