How Anyone Can Build a pipeline Of

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You’ve Got More Time Than You Think 
Some people put off building their pipelines 
because ”right now is a bad time for me.” Guess 
what – right now is a bad time for everybody!
We’re all stressed. We’re all busy. We’re all 
putting out fires and dealing with unexpected 
emergencies. There’s a word for these bad times. 
It’s called life! 
Some people waste their lives waiting for the 
“perfect time” to do x, y, or z. Well, they’ll die 
waiting, because there’s no such thing as a perfect 
time. If someone told you he’d give you $1 million 
if you’d sit in a corner and knit for two hours every 

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day for a year, you’d find the time to knit, wouldn’t 
you? 
It wouldn’t matter if your son broke his arm on the 
playground or your car wouldn’t start after work.
Rather than forfeit $1 million, you’d find the time to 
knit for two hours, perfect time or no perfect time.
Humorist Art Buchwald put it this way:
”Whether 
it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the 
only time we got.” 
Sadly, most people take time for granted, especially 
small amounts of time. We’ve been conditioned to 
measure time in days and weeks and years, instead 
of minutes and hours. We work 9 to 5, Monday 
through Friday. We plan our lives according to a 
monthly calendar. L We celebrate our birthdays and 
anniversaries once a year. 
But the amazing thing about time is how a few 
minutes here and there every day can add up to 
huge chunks of time! For example, did you know 
how much total time the average person spends 
eating during their lifetimes? Would you guess a 
year? Two years? The answer is six years! Isn’t 
that amazing? Here are some other short daily tasks 
that ass up to huge blocks of time: