1. I don’t have any! Time is generally viewed as a measurable device. We are saving it, spending it, clocking it, wasting it, investing it! Time is money! Some of us experience lack, some abundance: If we just had money, we could buy ourselves time… If I just had time, I could make more money… I once read an unforgettable fortune cookie: “it is not as important to count time, as it is to make time count.” Choose a moment today to use and utilize fully!

2. My time or yours?

This one concerns overly committed, who is serving on so many committees, and helping so many friends, she has no time to take care of herself adequately. Time to learn to say “no” to others, and “yes” to my goals. Today pick an occasion to say a simple “no, thank you” and do something in that time you had never done before!

3. I was born that way!

“As long as I recall, I have always been late.” Is being late a statement you enjoy making? Or are you late because you attempt to do too much at a time, and try to prove your worth by scheduling more in a span of time that it can possibly contain? Today do whatever it takes to arrive 10 minutes early to a meeting, and experience expansion of your momentum…

4. I am not ready!

There have been times where I have used destiny and Ecclesiastes’ saying (For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven,) as a reason to not change. “My time hadn’t come,” I would say! The sobering thought about waiting for perfect time or procrastinating is that tomorrow might never come. To add to dilemma, “I’m not ready” may become “it’s too late!” Take action today on something you were not “ready” to do, dive, and watch your creative power soar!

5. I’m in a hurry!

This one is also about control, but in other direction… The motion of life is oscillating, spiraling rather than straight and linear. Today, stop pushing river: allow a certain amount of meandering time in which to do nothing. As you develop a habit for that, watch events that you could never make happen occur spontaneously! It’s all in rhythm, man, all in curve!

Or is it day beach resorts kick into high gear for summer season, day strand is covered by fish-belly white people basting themselves in coconut oil, day off season rates end and weekend you can't get in a seaside seafood restaurant with anything less than a hour wait.

Or is it one of biggest shopping center sales day of year, a day when hunting for a parking space is prime sport for holiday stay-at homers?

Or is it weekend when more people will kill themselves on highways than any other weekend and highway patrol troopers work overtime picking up pieces?

I think men and women who died for us would understand what we do with their day. I hope they would, because if they wouldn't, if they would have insisted that it be a somber, respectful day of remembrance, then we have blown it and dishonored their sacrifice.

I knew some of those who died and guys I knew would have understood.

They liked a sunny beach and a cold beer and a hot babe in a black bikini too. They would have enjoyed packing kids, inflatable rafts, coolers, and suntan lotion in car and heading for lake. They would have enjoyed staying at home and cutting grass and getting together with some friends and cooking some steaks on grill too.