First of all, I don’t really mean 9,000 hours exactly.  In the interest of a catchy headline, I did some rounding of the numbers.  I mean the 8,784 hours in 2016 (including 24 bonus leap year hours, yippee!).

Time is a gift given to all living things.  Whether you believe the giver is a higher power, or pure chance, we all must agree that none of us ever does anything to earn our time on this earth.  As wonderful as it would be, there is no job that pays its wages in hours that we can tack onto our lives.

This time gift of ours is very unique in that it is ever-given.  It is a constant stream, like Santa Claus on espresso tirelessly reaching into his big red bag and handing us more parcels of time.

I’ve always thought of a new year in terms of days.  A fresh batch of 365 shiny days.  It’s kind of fun, though, to look at things differently sometimes.  I’m thinking of this year as a fresh batch of 8,784 hours.  Each one is individually wrapped, and with a bow attached.

What is not attached to each hourly gift is a string.  There are no conditions that come with the gift.  We may spend the hour however we please.  We can spend it sleeping, or reading a book, or working, or eating bon bons in bed while watching soap operas (guilty as charged:), and there are no judgments.  Just another shiny wrapped-up hour when the previous one disappears.  So what will you do with all your new time gifts this year?

Happy New Year,
Brent