When I wrote last time about making the most of your time, some of the responses I received showed that the message hit home for some. For others, maybe not as much. This is most likely due to the fact that our time is one crucial resource we simply do not value as we ought to.

I think one major reason we don't seem to value our time to the extent that we should, is because it comes free to us. We don't work for it. It just comes to us. Each of us gets a new allotment of time each day. And because we get it without having to work for it, we don't value it as much.

As a species, we tend not to place a value on something that costs us nothing, even when that thing is invaluable to us. Despite the fact that we each get 24 hours every day without having to earn it, I believe time is still our greatest resource.

Without it, we really can't do anything else, can we?

When you have time, you can make more money. With time, you can make new friends. With time, you can take more trips. When you have time, any other thing becomes a possibility. The tricky part is that you don't know how much time you have left to do all these things. When you run out of time, you simply can't do anything else.

In that sense, your time is your life.

I once read where Andy Stanley wrote, "You can run out of money and still have some life left. You can run out of friends with life to spare. But once you run out of time, it’s over." He's absolutely right. When your time's up, your time's up.

So, if there's a resource we must learn to handle with wisdom, it's our time. When you combine this with the understanding that our time here is limited, I think it behooves us to really pay close attention to what we do with it.

If you don't do anything tangible with it, it just goes away. You lose it forever. Yes, you get a new block of time tomorrow, but the one you lost is gone forever. You can't recover it. It's wasted.

And who says you get a new block of time tomorrow anyway? You don't even know if you'll last till the end on today's block of time. So, instead of allowing your today's allotment of time to fritter away, prioritize what you do with it.

Don't let it go to waste. Cherish it. Treasure it.

It's more than worth it.