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Happy birthday shouts-out to Lisa + Susan in SF!
One of my favorite motivational videos is "The Time You Have (in Jellybeans)".
He starts with 28,835 jellybeans, representing the days in a lifetime of 79 years.
Then he starts removing jellybeans from the pile, to represent the time we spend in childhood, sleeping, eating, shopping, work, commuting, watching TV, chores, taking care of others' needs, etc.
He ends up with a small pile of jellybeans representing free time - time for enjoying life, self-fulfillment etc.
And he asks: What are you going to do with this small bit of time that remains after you have done all those other activities?
In my opinion, there is something very Jewish and yet something very un-Jewish about this message.
First question for your table: What do you think?
Second question: Imagine you were sitting on a bus next to someone with a bag full of dollar bills.
Every minute or so, he reaches into the bag, pulls out a dollar, and drops it out the window.
You are watching this peculiar behavior for awhile, until he appears to run out of money.
Then he turns to you and asks, "May I borrow a dollar?"
What do you say?
In the video, an efficient person may notice something he left out of his jellybean count: time that is wasted.
Wasted not because a person's standing in line at airport security, but because they're standing in line at airport security without a book.
Wait-time.
Our life is filled with little time-nuggets of wait-time. These are opportunities to learn and to grow.
But we totally waste most of these .
3rd Q for your table: If someone asked you how to use their wait-time for a purpose, what would you advise?
"If you love life, then love time, for that is the stuff that life is made of." (Ben Franklin)
Shabbat Shalom
Happy birthday shouts-out to Lisa + Susan in SF!
One of my favorite motivational videos is "The Time You Have (in Jellybeans)".He starts with 28,835 jellybeans, representing the days in a lifetime of 79 years.
Then he starts removing jellybeans from the pile, to represent the time we spend in childhood, sleeping, eating, shopping, work, commuting, watching TV, chores, taking care of others' needs, etc.
He ends up with a small pile of jellybeans representing free time - time for enjoying life, self-fulfillment etc.
And he asks: What are you going to do with this small bit of time that remains after you have done all those other activities?
In my opinion, there is something very Jewish and yet something very un-Jewish about this message.
First question for your table: What do you think?
Second question: Imagine you were sitting on a bus next to someone with a bag full of dollar bills.
Every minute or so, he reaches into the bag, pulls out a dollar, and drops it out the window.
You are watching this peculiar behavior for awhile, until he appears to run out of money.
Then he turns to you and asks, "May I borrow a dollar?"
What do you say?
In the video, an efficient person may notice something he left out of his jellybean count: time that is wasted.
Wasted not because a person's standing in line at airport security, but because they're standing in line at airport security without a book.
Wait-time.
Our life is filled with little time-nuggets of wait-time. These are opportunities to learn and to grow.
But we totally waste most of these .
3rd Q for your table: If someone asked you how to use their wait-time for a purpose, what would you advise?
"If you love life, then love time, for that is the stuff that life is made of." (Ben Franklin)
Shabbat Shalom
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