When someone steals money from you, well, that’s a bad thing. But you can earn it back.<\/p>\n
When someone steals time from you, they take something far more precious than money. They’ve taken something you can never replace. It’s gone. Forever. Never to be recovered.<\/p>\n
My day was stolen today; stolen by a person who also took some of my time earlier this week; stolen by a person who asked for my help and who I agreed to help; stolen by a person who proved herself not to be a person of her word, and who was simply thoughtless and self-centered. I’d much rather she vacuumed thousands from my bank account. I can replace that. But she took a day that I was willing to give even though I didn’t have it to give. The day didn’t help her. In fact, it made her feel badly. She got no benefit from it, and neither did I. And beyond that, I paid the cost so she could \u00a0steal my day.<\/p>\n
I am pretty chapped. Though I’ll get over it, and it won’t matter. Soon. BUT at the moment it matters a lot!<\/p>\n
Respect time. Use it wisely. It is an irreplaceable commodity. Take it only after asking. Never steal it.<\/p>\n
Keep this in mind as you plan meetings that involve others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When someone steals money from you, well, that’s a bad thing. But you can earn it back. When someone steals time from you, they take something far more precious than money. They’ve taken something you can never replace. It’s gone. Forever. Never to be recovered. My day was stolen today; stolen by a person who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}