“The wealthiest place in the world is not the gold mines of South America or the oil fields of Iraq or Iran. They are not the diamond mines of South Africa or the banks of the world. The wealthiest place on the planet is just down the road. It is the cemetery. There lie buried companies that were never started, inventions that were never made, bestselling books that were never written, and masterpieces that were never painted. In the cemetery is buried the greatest treasure of untapped potential.”― Myles Munroe

As the saying goes,”‘Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” Every day we are all given the invaluable gift of time to create a masterpiece of our one precious life. We get credited with 86,400 seconds, 1,440 minutes, and 24 hours each morning, how we spend our time determines the course of our life. The average lifetime is about 83 years in which we spend 1/3rd sleeping (27 years), and another 1/3rd is spent commuting, working, and child-rearing, among other activities.

For 83 years old adults, the time to be productive is less than 20 years. Most of us delay living our lives as we say, “Someday I’ll, ” we overestimate the value of a year and underestimate the value of a day. Make every day a masterpiece by making the committed effort to the actualization of your goals and aspiration. As the late founder of Apple once said, “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” We only live once, but if we lead this one precious life, right once is enough.