If you were to be asked what matter most to you, you would likely say family, relationship, and maybe spirituality, which are the 3 topmost things that most people would likely say as well.

But if you were to honestly and humbly examine how you expend your effort on a daily basis, you will likely find that most of it is geared with a remarkable imbalance towards your career, business, and a host of other not-so-important things like hobbies; movies, TV sitcoms and reality shows; video and computer games; and Internet surfing, Facebook, MSN, chat rooms, and pitifully, pornography. Even without referencing any survey, no one would argue that the world is wasting way too much time than ever before (and yet we complain of not having enough time). We fool ourselves by thinking that the expectations people have of us are unrealistic when all the while we are fully engaged in inconsequential activities that require much more time and effort.

We keep saying that our children are the future and yet keep manufacturing things that are not helping them better prepare for the future; we ignorantly applaud the electronic gadgets that instill an extremely high level of competition in them, things that limit their meaningful communications with others, things that causes them to spend more time in front of unproductive objects instead of people.

By no means may these time-stealers be considered the axis of evil, but the negative impacts on families, relationships, and spirituality is extremely alarming. If in doubt, just take a minute to think of how much time these activities consume (especially) in the western world versus how much time is spent building families, relationships and spirituality. How much time do you spend overworking or watching TV versus how much time you spend with your children ' intentionally getting engaged in their world academically and socially? How much time do you spend shopping or salivating over things you can barely afford versus how much time you spend on just a stroll with your partner holding hands, admiring each other, the wind, birds, trees and lake? "To put the world right in order", Confucius once said, "We must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."

The Inconvenient Truth is that not many people have aligned their available time to what they claim matter the most; not many people invest the necessary time to Enhance their Personality, Energize their Marriage, Equip their Parenting, Enrich their Spirituality and Enliven their Relationships. In fact, it is almost becoming embarrassing to refuse a social invitation on the grounds that you have to go home to be with your spouse and children. In the same way, spending time with God, reading the Bible, praying and participating in other spiritual activities is becoming the top secret of those who do, since no one really wants to mocked for 'leaning' on God. Nevertheless, these remain the topmost areas of life that people say matter the most to them. I would rather be found leaning on the Omnipotent God than on any of these time-wasters; worst still, on medications, liquors and drugs, which societies are 'legally' prescribing to people who, in most case, just need a friend. What are you leaning on? How much time are you wasting everyday?

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