In this motivational talk, the speaker emphasizes that how you use each minute determines the quality of larger time blocks—hours, days, weeks, months, years—and ultimately the trajectory of your life. He argues that traditional New Year’s resolutions fail because they target large, distant goals, whereas focusing on controlling and protecting the minute creates compound benefits. He illustrates this with a reading habit recommendation: dedicating an hour a day to reading accumulates to roughly 30 hours a month, equivalent to a full workweek of learning. The speaker stresses the importance of being intentional with every minute, protecting it from waste, and recognizing that observing how someone spends their minutes can predict their future outcomes. By consistently safeguarding and budgeting minutes, one can secure success across all areas of life.
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Hey, another thing I want to talk about is about how you use your minute. Yes, how you use your minute. How you use your minute actually determines how your hour is going to be, and how you use your hour will determine how your day is going to be. How you use your day will determine how Your week is going to be, and how the way you use your week will determine how your month is going to be, and how the way you use your month is going to determine how your year is going to be. And the way you use your year, the result of your years will determine how your life is going to be. What did this mean? If you want to change your life, if you want to change your result, Don't try to do a New Year resolution. I know people, I mean, I did this myself. Every 30, I mean, 25th of December, I would lock myself in a hotel, write so many things that I will apply the next year. Guess what? Around February, I forget about everything. Why? Because I'm trying to, you know, I was trying to do some kind of, you know, miracle work. In order to change, Anything out of your life in order to get a result that you want, focus on a minute. It's so easy to control the minute. A lot of time, you know, I ask people I mentor, I always ask them, how do you use your hour? I will ask you, what's— give me your— you know, I meet you in the morning and ask you, okay, what are you doing today with your day? What are you doing with your minute? How are you going to spend your day? That say everything. about how your life is going to be. If you want, from now, if you read, let's say you read for only 30 minutes per day, 30 minutes. No, let's just say hour because the average person should be reading at least for an hour per day. If you're in business or not, just for it to stay healthy, you should be reading at least for an hour per day. So if you read an hour per day, that actually gives you 30 hours. Per month. So it's as if you lock yourself in and read for almost 2, almost a day, 24 hours and a half, 30 hours. It's as, it's gonna be as if you normally go to work for 3 weeks and stay home and study for a week. Think about it. So what you do with your minute is actually determined how your life is gonna be. Sometimes you don't have to close your eyes and prophesy. When you see the way somebody spends their minute, they spend their hour, they spend their day, you can predict how their life is going to end. So don't waste your minute. I always laugh when people come to me and call me or walk in my office and say, hey, Ralph, do you have a minute? I say, no, I don't. I don't have a minute to waste. What? I mean, I don't have a minute to waste. Hey buddy, you have a minute? I know I don't. Be intentional. Be very intentional about your minute. Don't just throw a minute at people, and people will come and steal your time. Nobody's gonna come and say, hey, I will steal an hour from you. I'm gonna steal a day. Yes, you know how to secure that. You know how to save that. You know how to block that. You know how to protect your day. You know how to protect your year, but do you know how to protect your minute? And the key is in your minute. If you can protect every minute, you'll really protect your month. You'll protect your week. You'll protect your year. And your future, you can predict your future. Amen. So that is one of the things. If you put in practice, you'll be successful in every area of your life. See you around.
