The Gift of 24: Embrace the Present, Own the Future

LIFE IS TOO SHORT...

WE ALL GET THE SAME 24 HOURS, WITH NO GUARANTEE OF ANOTHER.

THERE'S BEAUTY IN THAT.

EMBRACE EACH DAY WITH ZEAL, RISE ABOVE THE LOWER FREQUENCIES, AND

STRIVE FOR 24 MORE.

24 hours, 1,440 minutes, 86,400 seconds.

1 day.

(Insert here a space in time in which I was awaiting inspiration to compose this piece, Feb 15th- Feb 28th)

Regardless of your status in this life whether in an ivory tower or if you are struggling to get by working a: 9am-5pm, 5pm-9pm, & a 5am-9am. We all collectively share the same blueprint of time. 24 hours in a day given to one is exactly the same 24 hours given to another. It ticks on at the same speed unbiased to ones feelings. 

Time is the one currency that we all share, yet we cannot go back in time and we are not guaranteed more of it.

Day by day we move forward exchanging our time for various reasons:

Survival & Necessity (Money)

Growth & Fulfillment (Personal Development)

Social & Emotional (Relationships, Validation, Philanthropy)

Enjoyment, Rest, & Leisure ( Entertainment, Travel, & Passions)

Legacy & Security (Family, & Advancement)

Through the various ways of how we spend our time, are we aware of how & where we spend it? 

Ask yourself, take a second, a breath, whatever you need. Am I spending my time towards:

Necessity

Wants / Desires

or

Purpose

(insert here a space in time in which I stopped focusing on this and went on and did client work, February 28th 2025 ~6pm)

If you really break the list I wrote above down, it comes down to these 3 categories. 

• We need to earn money in order to survive and to have the potentiality for prosperity
• We want to fit in, We desire the riches of life
• We are here in this brief section of time in search of our purpose.

The clock is ticking either way, don't allow yourself to let the:

hours, minutes, & seconds

Slip away due to distractions, doubts, and low vibrations. Rather embrace the moment with intention, passion, and purpose.

How can we practically apply this? Grab your phone, go to settings and find "screen time." There you are shown a graph of where and how you spend your time by device.   (I did notice some some discrepency with apps being opened simultaneously, ie. on my laptop I have 10hr and 53m on my messages app, & 18hr 5m on my browsers, I am not sitting here texting people nonstop on the message app whilst actively working on projects / searching the web.) Rather I have the apps open so I can work simultaneously.

So one can agree that there will be some 'common sense' needed when diving into this. Regardless, this snapshot allows you a recap of how and where you digitally spend your time.

Lets say in a mock trial you had a perfect work day with exactly 8 hrs of sleep, and 8 hrs of work. Great that's 16/24. Now factor in: meals, transit, health, relationship, family, entertainment, self development, social media, etc.....

The other 8 hours easily get chipped away to all these different branches of your reality. Theres a bittersweet truth through all this:
To live fully and unapologetically.

This life can easily escape us if we are not aware of our actions, each moment, each interaction, each memory, each lesson, each day, is all a gift.

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present." - Oogway, Kung Fu Panda

(I remember my mom brought my friends and I to watch this movie when it came out and this quote resonated with me since my childhood)

(Insert in here a space in time in which I am about to go and spend time with my family, do some errands, and wow would you look at that my love just gave me a slice of cheese) Isn't this the point of time, to appreciate the little things?

March 10th, 2025

I am thankful for my life, the breath in my lungs, the sight in my eyes, the articulation of my body, the cognition of my mind, and "the desire to run towards the fire." 

Today I witnessed a horrible accident in which a vehicle struck an elderly man walking with his wife. Fortunately the wife wasn't hit but the man, mangled by the accident, laid there unresponsive. I still hear the cries of the woman in shock of what she witnessed. The driver, a father with his child in his car struck with a wave of emotions, other bystanders who pulled him out of the vehicle seeming to ensure he didn't flee the incident. I pulled my car over and assisted with diverting traffic. 

This was probably just another ordinary Monday, the two probably leaving a nearby cafe to continue normally about their day. 

Fate decided otherwise.

Now I am sitting here, at my next stop for the day, reflecting on what I witnessed:
Agony

Despair

&

Community

I am one of many that came to assist, those trying to render aid (a physician bringing an oxygen tank from a nearby office), providing support for the wife, removing the driver from the vehicle, other people diverting traffic, all before the authorities arrived.
This gave me hope on humanity. In these trying times, as hard as they are, good will prevail, no matter how painful or difficult it takes to get there. 

Have faith, count your blessings, and tell your family you love them.

I wish the family afflicted by this tragedy love, healing, and blessings. 

March 20th, 2025

"I have to be better!" 

What do you have to be better for? At? 

Give yourself some direction, a left, a right, something. 

Dog barking, Dryer going off, Work emails unanswered, Clients calling you, Journal entry not done, Meal not eaten, Prayer not fulfilled, Passion not invested in, Opportunity for a lead in the distance, Workout not complete.

Chaos.

Stress.

What can you control?

What do you have time for?

Take action.

I recently just finished some emails and planned some logistics, now I am headed on a run prior to a meeting.

Then I will take it from there. 

BE GOOD. LIVE ABUNDANTLY.

 

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio). Saint Jerome Writing. c. 1605–1606.