Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

YOUR TIME IS LIMITED
You cannot save time. You can only spend it differently. Every part
of your life today shows the results of how you have spent your time
in the past. If you want to have a different future, you have to spend
your time differently in the present. You have to change your think-
ing about yourself and how you use your time to get the things you
want in life.
Time, in a way, is like 
money
. It can be either spent or invested.
If you spend time or money, it is gone forever. You can never get it
back. But it you invest your time or money wisely, you will get a
greater return in the future. Personal strategic planning and think-
ing give you the tools to ensure that you achieve the highest return
on time invested (ROTI). Put another way, it enables you to get the
highest “return on life.”
Everything you do that requires your time represents a choice.
The choice is to use your time wisely or not. However you choose,
the time will be gone forever. If you spend your time on one activity,
you will no longer have that same quantity of time available to
spend or invest in another activity. Your choices about how you use
your time largely determine the quality of your life, both today and
in the future.
You must be extremely jealous of your time. You must be
adamant about not spending your time on activities of low value.
You must downsize, outsource, and eliminate all activities that no