Your Life Could Be Your Greatest Investment!!


Time is a precious resource.Life is made up of time.When you squander time,you squander life.How would you invest these resources?The average person invest his money in his career,business or children's education according to his priorities.Then there are those who lavish their resources on entertainment or building up an image for themselves.Those with talents,invest in them to earn money or to gain power and influence.Some with the 'get-rich-quick' mentality go for gambling and  other shortcuts.




      "I will not just give my life-I will not just spend my life;I will invest my life", wrote Hellen Keller,who despite being born with visual and hearing challenges made a great impact on our world!
With just five dollars in her pocket and a heart full of love for God and fellow beings,Mother Teresa too started investing her life,and the poor of the world felt the impact on her compassion,as never before.Life is a precious resource.What do with our lives?You are a trustee of of you time,money,effort,energy,talent or abilities.God gave them to you.You did not bring them into this world,neither can you take them with you when you leave.Whatever you don't use, you lose.
For everyone, the precious life span consist of 86,400 seconds in a day.You cannot hoard it for the next day.All the wealth in the world cannot buy you another second.That is how precious it is.How you will spend it?That is life's great question.The majority spend in the acquisition of of the good things of life:wealth,power and influence or on sensual pleasures only to discover towards the end of their existence that they were chasing shadows.God calls us to invest our time-capital our very lives-primarily in people, not in projects or possessions,because,only a life lived for others is worth living.
  The difference between individuals get reflected in their priorities,in the way they live their lives.For majority self comes first;in accumulating possessions for self and family.The less privileged deserve our attention and help.There are those who need a push,an encouraging word of guidance.When you thus invest your life in the life of others,when you invest your life in the personalities of others,you make the wisest investment of all.When you invest you life in teaching young people to choose good over evil,to seek excellence instead of mediocrity,and to set goals worthy of their highest efforts and loftiest dreams,you enrich eternity.
When you invest your life in alleviating  the pain and suffering,in lending an understanding ear to the tired and discouraged,the ill and  the aged,you merit a seat beside angels.When you invest your life in lifting up the fallen,in visiting the imprisoned,in feeding the hungry,in clothing the poor,you achieve what your Creator envisioned you to become-a person of compassionate love,benevolence and wise generosity.
Invest your life in great ideas,"you will become as great as your dominant aspiration".Great Ideas are the seeds of of immortal deeds,the fountainhead of dynamic movements and reformed individuals and societies.

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