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Author John Assaraf once said, "If you don't value your time, nobody else will."
I don't know about you, but the older I get, the more intensely I value my time. I think twice about the movies I watch and articles I read, I think more than twice about the events I attend and prospective clients I meet, and I place spending time with my family & friends, travel, and writing at the very top of the list.
Is it age? Does growing older make you somehow more acutely aware of just how much time you don't have anymore? Or is it having children, more "adult" responsibilities, or the pressures of a demanding professional life?
Sure, all of this factors in, but that's not the core reason. The real driver of how much you value your time is self-respect.
The less you respect yourself, the less you value the time that is yours.
Time is the greatest personal commodity that is universally and automatically granted to every single person on the planet, regardless of race, gender, wealth, religion, political affiliation... and yes, even regardless of age. Time is a sacred and inalienable right, not a privilege.
It is also the one aspect of our lives—aside from taxes and death—that we cannot, in any way, shape, or form, control. Once it's gone, it's gone forever. You cannot make more of it the way you can make more money regardless how much you lose (or spend). You can't go back in time and change things the way you can rewrite books, reshoot movies, or remake that cake you burned in the oven. You can't package it up and send gift baskets of it to your stressed-out kids in college.
Perhaps this is why we learn to appreciate time as we move through life—not because of "age" but because we have had enough of it, we have experienced and lived through enough of it, and spent enough of it, to appreciate how inestimable time really is.
How much do you value your time? Share your temporal valuations on the full blog post!
~ Birgitte
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Can a patient's silence kill the doctor?
If you can answer this question, you might be able to solve the mystery that runs through my new short story, "Verse in Arabic". A highly respected doctor from Cordoba, the ailing young daughter of an unnamed but wealthy family in Madrid, and a journalist who comes only 21 years too late to save the doctor from a life sentence.
Like all of my stories, this one was inspired by a real event: something rather bizarre that one of my English students experienced when I was teaching in Spain. Read more about the story, plus a sample excerpt.
"Verse in Arabic" is all dressed up and almost ready for its debut in a few weeks.
In the meantime, I want to take a moment and thank everyone who participated in my pre-release cover design poll. Very thoughtful replies, all of which I greatly appreciated. The final cover is now up on my web site... take a peek and let me know what you think!
And if you'd like to be one of the first to read it and write a reader review, I'll send you a pre-release PDF. Just email me your details.
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In February, I gave two talks on sacred time and the role that the Mayan Calendar can play in helping us work it back into our lives. To all of you who came, THANK YOU. You decided that you wanted to spend an hour out of your day just with me, and your time is sacred.
More talks are in the works, but for now, I'm taking a bit of sacred time myself to actually do what writers are supposed to do... write.
For more on my talks and presentations, visit my author's site.
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