“INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.”
“Frugality and Industry, freeing me from my remaining debt, and producing affluence and independence, would make more easy the practice of Sincerity and Justice, etc.”
Throughout his autobiography, Mr. Franklin explains that he owes the acquisition of his fortune to frugality and industry.
We can take a lesson from mother nature, she wastes no time putting things to work. Nutrients, bacteria, animals, and other biota are in a constant cycle of change. The industry of nature to wreck, build, yield, and store components for the business of ecology never stops. She is relentless.
This leads me to ask a question in relation to Sir Franklin's industry. Where do you have exposed soil? Soil that is not covered with protective vegetation?
Weeds sprout quickly in those locations.
If time is our most valuable asset it is important to know the dollar value of the time you are spending. Take a hard look at how you spend your most valuable resource and I'm willing to bet you can find areas that need an audit. Some of the most common time thieves are, Social Media, idle gossip, shopping for the latest greatest material items, junk food entertainment, multitasking, procrastination, and saying "Yes." when you should say, "No."
Why do we allow these thieves to barge in, out of order, to steal our "employed in something useful" industry? We must do frequent zonal energy and movement audits of action in order to "cut off all unnecessary actions".
Some may say this is selfish, yet, the oak cannot feed other animals that depend on its fruit, unless it first pushes, grows, and grabs and stores the sunlight and atoms of nutrients from the environment for itself.
It's easy in an open field and much harder when time competition arrives.
How many dreams are left to our imagination...how many projects have we started and not finished? Take an inventory of dreams and projects you've started but left undone due to time thieves.
In Napoleon, Hill's Think and Grow Rich, he tells the story of R.U. Darby in his search for gold. He gave up after a huge investment of time and money, thinking he had lost the vein that contained the valuable ore. It was later discovered that they had stopped digging three feet from "striking it rich".
The impact of our dead energy and the dreams we have quit, we should only quickly imagine.
They are water under the bridge. You need your energy for your own three more feet of digging.
So I close by reminding you, If you want the "Bennies", be a finisher of tasks with industry. In order to set the stage for your goals and other life events, apply industry to your most valuable resource, your time.
Keywords: freeing, debt, affluence, independence.
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