ed that break and needed it to recover, you've achieved nothing. You will forget what you did, and it will not serve you at all in the future. If you're going to take a day off, do something memorable.

I believe in investing in the future; in making every moment count.

Over the past couple of weeks I've been clearing brambles from the back of our garden. These long, thorny, and tangled weeds choke the plants we want to grow and stop the garden achieving its full beauty. In order to make room for new, stronger and better growth, the weeds have to be uprooted.

As I was carrying out this task, I couldn't help drawing an analogy to how we organise our lives.

While our potential is debatably limitless, there is one major constriction: time.

Our time is a finite resource, yet many of us waste it. Some people spend hours watching television that doesn't improve their lives in anyway. Or they play games, with opponents that are not challenging enough. Or cook the same meals, day after day; never experimenting.

Many people go to work everyday, completing a job that has become simple. When the challenge of the work disappears, learning stops. When learning stops, there is no growth.

A forgettable day is a wasted day. It doesn't matter if you took time off and enjoyed yourself lazing in the sun. Unless you deserved that break and needed it to recover, you've achieved nothing. You will forget what you did, and it will not serve you at all in the future. If you're going to take a day off, do something memorable.

I believe in investing in the future; in making every moment count. S

eeds have to be uprooted.

As I was carrying out this task, I couldn't help drawing an analogy to how we organise our lives.

While our potential is debatably limitless, there is one major constriction: time.

Our time is a finite resource, yet many of us waste it. Some people spend hours watching television that doesn't improve their lives in anyway. Or they play games, with opponents that are not challenging enough. Or cook the same meals, day after day; never experimenting.

Many people go to work everyday, completing a job that has become simple. When the challenge of the work disappears, learning stops. When learning stops, there is no growth.

A forgettable day is a wasted day. It doesn't matter if you took time off and enjoyed yourself lazing in the sun. Unless you deserved that break and needed it to recover, you've achieved nothing. You will forget what you did, and it will not serve you at all in the future. If you're going to take a day off, do something memorable.

I believe in investing in the future; in making every moment count.

us waste it. Some people spend hours watching television that doesn't improve their lives in anyway. Or they play games, with opponents that are not challenging enough. Or cook the same meals, day after day; never experimenting.

Many people go to work everyday, completing a job that has become simple. When the challenge of the work disappears, learning stops. When learning stops, there is no growth.

A forgettable day is a wasted day. It doesn't matter if you took time off and enjoyed yourself lazing in the sun. Unless you deserved that break and needed it to recover, you've achieved nothing. You will forget what you did, and it will not serve you at all in the future. If you're going to take a day off, do something memorable.

I believe in investing in the future; in making every moment count.

g a job that has become simple. When the challenge of the work disappears, learning stops. When learning stops, there is no growth.

A forgettable day is a wasted day. It doesn't matter if you took time off and enjoyed yourself lazing in the sun. Unless you deserved that break and needed it to recover, you've achieved nothing. You will forget what you did, and it will not serve you at all in the future. If you're going to take a day off, do something memorable.

I believe in investing in the future; in making every moment count.

ed that break and needed it to recover, you've achieved nothing. You will forget what you did, and it will not serve you at all in the future. If you're going to take a day off, do something memorable.

I believe in investing in the future; in making every moment count. Sometimes that means creating, sometimes that means learning, and sometimes that means experiencing new things. Many of our activities stop that investment. They act like weeds that constrain our growth. Whenever we choose to do one activity we are sacrificing the chance to do something else.

If we are to sow the seeds of intelligence we have to make room. We have to weed out those activities that are standing in the way of new growth. We even have to get rid of the old activities that once served a purpose, but now constrain us like any other weed.

We need to make time.

Some of the activities we do are worthwhile, but not the most worthwhile. Even some brambles bare fruit, but some fruit is tastier than others. If you have to make a choice, go with the best.

Wise Choices

Our time is a limited resource, so we need to spend it wisely. Yet we usually ignore the activities that are depleting us.

It's time to clear out those brambles and make room for activities that will make us grow.

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