Our target: The swimming pool. And from the back seat our kids and their friends were letting it be known that we couldn’t get there fast enough. The screams of excitement came to halt when one child asked, “How long do we get to swim?”

My wife answered, “Two hours.”

Groans of agony and disappointment erupted: “Ah, that’s not very long,” and “Come on, Mom!”

Then the youngest spoke up: “You know, they say ‘time flies when you’re having fun.’ So let’s not have any fun and make this last as long as possible.”

Your career, the work you do, the number of times you greet your family at the end of the day – it’s all finite, like a two-hour trip to the pool. Today is either another step in a forced march…or an opportunity to accelerate your greatness by living and leading at your potential.

Time isn’t the variable of concern. How you use it is. What will you do today to choose the richer experience?   

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