Accounting Troubleshooters

$86400 deposit to your account

Accountants love to put everything in figures, they seem easy to understand.   As an accountant, I was fascinated by this piece of writing.    It  is an analogy by an anonymous author who quantified time in order to illustrate its value.   It’s been circulating around the net, but this was my first time to read of this, so here it is.

Imagine there is a bank which credits your account with $86,400 every day.

The account carries over no balance and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day.

What would you do?

Most likely you would draw out every cent before the end of each day.

Well, every one of us has such a bank.  It is called TIME.

Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds.  Every night it writes off whatever remains and carries over no balance.  It allows no overdrafts.

Each day it opens a new account for you.
Each night it burns the records of that day.
If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours.

There is no going back; there i s no drawing against tomorrow.
You must live in the present.. in today’s deposit.

Invest it so as to get the most in health, happiness and success.
The clock is running, make the most of today.

To realize the value of one year,
Ask a student who failed his final exam.

To realize the value of one month,
Ask the mother of a premature baby.

To realize the value of one week,
Ask the editor of a weekly paper.

To realize the value of one hour,
Ask a daily wage earner who has children to feed.

To realize the value of just one minute,
Ask a person who has just missed a train.

To realize the value of one second,
Ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of one millisecond,
Ask an athlete who has just won an Olympic medal.

Treasure each moment that you have.
Treasure it more because you shared it with someone special….
Special enough to have some of your time.

What are you going to do with your 86,400 seconds today?
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