Every day, you’re making an investment of something extremely valuable — your time. You cannot save time for use later. It must be used as it comes. We all get the same amount of it — 24 hours each day. Success is determined largely by how effectively we use our time.

Get the most out of the time you have. Focus your efforts on doing the things that will have the most significant impact on your life and your work. Do the "big" things first, and stay "on task" until they’re done.

Nothing will make you more effective than the ability to stay focused. Practice it. Work at it. Challenge yourself to stay in focus. When you’re about to become distracted, force yourself back to the task at hand. You’ll be amazed at how much more you get done, when you actually work the whole time you’re working.

Your time is precious and cannot be replaced once it is spent. Use it wisely and effectively, by staying focused and getting things done.

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Values become actions. Too many of our actions are killing our planet, our communities, and our spirit. Our actions are killing our loved ones. We are diminishing the future for everyone and everything.

Particular values form the basis of our survival. When practiced, they help us live in reciprocity with nature and with each other. We are the relationships we share, and we are permeable - physically, emotionally, spiritually to our surroundings. Therefore, we hold these values as essential:

 

• GRATITUDE, because our lives depend on air, water, soil, plants, humans, and her animals;
• EMPATHY, because we are connected with all of creation;
• SYMPATHY, because we all experience suffering and death, both necessarily in the course of life and unnecessarily when these values are not practiced;
• COMPASSION, because it moves us to attend to suffering and injustice; and
• HUMILITY, because we cannot know all of the consequences of our actions.