As you work your way though the Air Force Academy’s admissions process and as you work your way through high school, there is going to be one resource that you will have a limited amount of.
No matter what your academic or economic background, you will have a finite amount of time allotted to you to win admission to the Air Force Academy. You’ll also have a finite amount of time that you are a student in high school. Time is the one resource that puts you even with your peers, because there is only 24 hours in a day for everyone.
Since this is the one resource that is given to you in the same measure as it is for everyone else, you’ll want to guard it from being consumed by activities that siphon off your energy needlessly.
Do you have one or more activities or influences in your life that, even though you may think that they are enjoyable at the time, turn out to just sap your time and energy upon closer inspection?
Maybe it’s a television program, or multiple television programs, that you watch no matter what. Maybe you’re spending too much time playing video games. Maybe you’re hanging around someone with a bad habit, such as negativity. Or maybe you’re hanging around someone with a habit worse than that.
These things that I’ve just listed can be good in moderation. It’s okay to watch television sometimes. It’s good to help a friend who is struggling to see a better side of things. It’s good to have some Wii time. I’d love to have some Wii time. I guess that maybe I actually need to buy a Wii first to get that Wii time, but I hope that you get my point.
If you’re being swayed into a time wasting activity for hours on end, though, you may want to reconsider about how you spend your greatest resource, which is time.
If you aren’t getting your work done, that’s an indication that you may not be spending your greatest resource in ways that most benefit you. If you’ve ever spent time watching television to the point that you’ve felt more exhausted or stressed than you did when you began, then that’s definitely an indication that you may not be spending your greatest resource in a way that benefits you.
Why not create a list right now of some more resourceful ways to use your time when you need a break that you can substitute in for some of the TV watching time and video game playing time?
In fact, I’m going to encourage you to create two lists. One list can contain activities that may actually help you to get into the Air Force Academy that you can substitute in in for time wasting activities. The second list can contain activities that are just interesting to you, whether you think that those activities could help you get into the Air Force Academy or not.
Print out this blog post and write those ideas down in the space below.
Activities that I can engage in to make better use of my time that would fit in well with my desire to go to the Air Force Academy:
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Activities that I enjoy and can engage in to make better use of my time, whether or not I think that they would help me to get into the Air Force Academy:
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I’ll make it a point to give some examples in my next blog post.
Until then, enjoy the time that you have, and use it well!
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To your success,
Elizabeth