Where did the summer go?

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.
—Ecclesiastes 3:1

School starts tomorrow for the students, parents, and teachers of Hillsborough County. Each year it seems students like the rest of us struggle with one of the most basic of educational lessons: time management.

All the plans of what you would do seem a distant memory facing the reality of life; "tempus fugit" … time flees!

Whether in your personal world or clinical world, time not only flees but flies. Projects to be started get replaced with by other more "urgent" things. Often the urgent things could have been delegated to another or rescheduled, but too frequently, you assume you have to do get it done yourself. And then find yourself asking the question: "Where did the time go?"

How you use your time is your choice. Referees call it, prisoners keep it, musicians mark it, historians record it, loafers kill it, statisticians keep it, daydreamers waste it, procrastinators need more of it. Busy people run out of it!
TIME! Time is one of the few things you have as much of as Bill Gates or Warren Buffet or any other gazillionaire. The big difference is how you choose to spend your time.

To help students find out where their time goes Virginia Tech has a neat calculator for students to determine how much study time they could have each week. You can replace study time with whatever kind of time if important to you and do the same thing.

Time flees and flies all by itself, without any help from you or me. Choose well how you can attend the important things of your life, your heart, your work.

In a few moments; patients, associates and family members will come to you as they face the reality of time’s flight and the need to rush to get it all done. Remember the scriptural words made popular by Pete Seeger, the Byrds: "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." Eccl 3:1