Nothing is wasted…
Are you waiting? 🌸
How long have you been waiting? Does it feel like the longer you wait, the value of your time appreciates like gold? Or does your impatient outlook cheapen the time you’ve spent waiting?
How does one know if they are valuing their time spent waiting? It’s revealed in your “today”. Like stocks or trends, the value of your time is found in your daily decisions.
So while you wait today, will you decide to be planted in hope? Will you decide to honor a new day with your gratitude? Will you spend your waiting loving on yourself, even when you get weary?
Or will you cheapen your “wait time” by dreading each decision? Will you give up on yourself? We wait 45+ min for a dinner reservation, watch movie previews and wait months for its premiere, and we even patiently wait in super long TSA lines followed by hours of travel… all because we understand the value within the time each of these things take. But do we apply this value to the more complex areas of our lives?
I’ve spent a lot of energy cultivating negative thoughts around my time. “Was that a waste of time?”, “Am I behind everyone else?”, or my personal best(worst): “The time it would take me would be too much, it’s too late anyway so I should just give up.”…
But my time is my most important currency I own. I’ve decided that my own time will grow in its value and appreciate just like gold. I have recently arrived to a new fixation: ownership. I’m the owner, I decide how I spend my time. I’m the boss, I get to choose the sticker price on my patience.
I’ve decided that my own time will grow in its value and appreciate just like gold✨.
Was something that I experienced “worth it”? If I spent time doing it, then it was worth it when I decided to do it, not when I experienced the outcome.
If I decided to spend time doing something that didn’t work out, it wasn’t a bad investment…it was the best use of my time for me to learn that lesson.
If I’m “behind” or have seemingly “missed out” on something, it’s not time wasted… it’s the signal I needed to find fresh inspiration and explore what brings me joy again.
And if it’s rejection or heartache… those events don’t indicate that I’m not worthy of love or that it’s time to give up… rather it’s a chance for me to be reminded that my heart loves deeply, and there’s no time like today to decide to love myself better than anyone else can. And I believe that I can. Second, only, to our Father God.
So what about you? How do you value your time? What advice would you give someone who is discouraged about how long they’ve been waiting?
Xx danielle