The Two-Minute Warning.....
It is interesting to
watch football teams on a Sunday afternoon. They spend the first
fifty-eight minutes routinely following the game plan they thought
would result in victory.
Then something rather
remarkable happens.
An official walks onto
the center of the field and announces what has come to be known as the “
two-minute warning.” what happens in the following one hundred and twenty
seconds is frequently awesome. We often witness more intensity, more
cleverness, more expended energy, and more action compacted into those two
final minutes than occurs in the previous fifty-eight. Why?
A sudden awareness of
the sense of imminent defeat, and the birth of a new and sharpened sense of
urgency. The participants knew that the clock will show no favoritism. The
clock will merely do what clocks are supposed to do: they will tick away the
seconds until the game is finally over.
The team that finds
itself on the threshold of defeat might have shown an extraordinary level of
ingenuity and intensity at any time throughout the game. They had the
potential and the opportunity to outscore their opponents early in the game.
But sometimes, despite their intentions, the players make only an average
effort until it is too late. Sometimes the blowing of the whistle announcing
the two-minute warning is merely a formality signifying the probability of
impending and irreversible defeat. And so it is with the
individual human life. The seconds slip into minutes, and the minutes
into hours, and the hours into days until we awaken one morning to discover
that the moments of opportunity are gone. We spend our final years reliving
dreams that might have been, regretting all that never was and now never
will be.
When the game of life
is finally over, there is no second chance to correct our errors. The clock
that is ticking away the moments of our lives does not care about winners
and losers. Its does not care about who succeeds or who fails. It does not
care about excuses, fairness or equality. The only essential issue is how we
played the game.
Regardless of a
person’s current age, there is a sense of urgency that should drive them
into action now-this very moment. We should be constantly aware of the value
of each and every moment of our lives – moments that seem so insignificant
that their loss often goes unnoticed. We still have all the time we need. We
still have lots of chances….lots of opportunities…lots of years to show what
we can do. For most of us, there will be a tomorrow, a next week, a
next month, and a next year.
But unless we develop a sense of urgency, those brief windows of time will
be sadly wasted, as were the weeks and months and years before them. There
isn’t an endless supply.
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From: Jim
Rohn's book
"The Five
Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle".
