{"id":3628,"date":"2022-09-06T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","slug":"redeeming-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3628","title":{"rendered":"REDEEMING THE TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A week ago, when my trip to Ghana was postponed unexpectedly, I determined to make the most out of the days &#8211; or even weeks &#8211; which I had not anticipated being in Columbus, Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wish I could boast that I had accomplished that goal.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a mixed bag at best.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At my best, I was able to make some real progress on my book. I now feel confident that I am on the right track with my current approach. Also, I was able to get a few things done around the house and I made progress on updating a website for work.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But too much of my past week has been spent in unanswerable questions:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Why? Why? Why? (I spent a lot of time here.)<\/li>\n\n\n<li>What could I have done differently to guarantee me boarding that plane?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>What is the quickest and surest path now to assure I will be on an upcoming flight?<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Often these questions just devolved into self-pity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will say that, overall, as I get older, I am beginning to realize how much time &#8211; and how little time &#8211; a single week is.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a person lives to be 90 years old, he or she gets 4,680 weeks of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 54, I have already burned through over 2,808 weeks of my own life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s no guarantee that I will make it to my 90th birthday. But even if I do and I get another 1,872 weeks, how many of those weeks will be truly productive?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems to me that redeeming the time is a worthy goal. And the nice thing about a new week starting is that it is another opportunity to pursue that goal.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s see what this week holds!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago, when my trip to Ghana was postponed unexpectedly, I determined to make the most out of the days &#8211; or even weeks &#8211; which I had not anticipated being in Columbus, Indiana. I wish I could boast that I had accomplished that goal. It&#8217;s been a mixed bag at best. At my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}