Is time. Time is a non-renewable resource.
You can find ways to make more money. You can acquire more materials. You can hire fresh talent or strike up relationships with new partners. You can woo more clients or customers. You can explore new markets. You can dream up new solutions or products.
But you can’t make more time.
Time, as a non-renewable resource, is the great equalizer. Every human gets the same number of minutes in a day. Even Jesus, when he was on earth, had the same limited gift of time. The difference is in how and where and why you spend your time the way that you do.
For a lot of people, it seems as though their time is spent for them by others. It’s the intentional (and perhaps brave) who make their time their own. Those who get to their calendar before anyone else does.
So, then, what’s worth spending your time on?
If I may be so bold, I’d like to make a single-word suggestion: People. Of all the great accomplishments that could be recounted after you are gone, perhaps the single greatest might be from someone who says, “He or she spent some time with me.”
