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It seems to me that we spend a great deal of our lives fighting against time. We see time as the enemy – something we must fight against if we are ever to succeed. When we are young we can’t wait to get older so we can be more independant and be taken seriously and then when we get older we just want to be young again.

However all this struggle is counter productive. Struggling against time won’t change it. In fact it’s often said (and it’s true) that time is the one thing we can’t change about life. No one can make you extra time but you can use time more effectively. You can make more money, more friends, more opportunities but you can’t make more time. The sooner we understand the futility of fighting time the sooner we can start benefitting from it.

Time can be a great tool for the person who is willing to work with it rather than against it. Making the best of the time you have is an excellent approach to life. We work with time when we take a pro-active approach to it. Rather than struggling to stop it passing we should make plans to work with it. Set goals that are time linked; make use of the time you have (no matter how small it may seem) to better yourself; find time to have some fun and build relationships.

Make time your friend not your enemy.