Slipping Sand

I've been thinking a lot about time and about giving one's best. I read a quote a couple of days ago that said that being a good manager means giving 100% a hundred percent of the time. Although I agree with it in theory, it's really hard to apply in practice. We all have limited time; it's slipping away from us, the time to effect someone's life, the time to do a good job on one project or another, there is less time now than before to be a good sister, wife, person. 

Persistence to me is more than just trying again and again; it's giving 100% over and over and over. The question of life is often how to prioritize the limitless things that we could be doing. The problem is that we have so many good things to do, that we are afraid of not choosing "the best" thing. Society is so focused on "what is the best" that we paralyze ourselves in making decisions.

My general manager always says “if nothing changes, nothing changes” If we are not living the way we will look back in the spirit world with satisfaction, then something needs to change. Living life one day at a time, and living it to the fullest.

Og Mandino talked about living this day as if it were his last, but I struggle to blend this principle with "you reap what you sow" If I am to live today in preparation for tomorrow, then I will often forsake pleasures that I would normally allow myself, especially if I knew my days were shortly limited.

I spend less time with Erik because I have to do homework, but I do homework because it will make my life more beneficial to everyone within my influence, including myself. 

I guiltily spend my time studying instead of sleeping, even though I have been told very plainly from Heavenly Father multiple times to take care of my body.

Where is the line between living each day to your last, wasting and wearing out our lives in the service of God, and wasting and wearing out our lives in service to ourselves?

I believe that If I strive consciously to do His will, I will do what He needs me to do.