Significance comes with time.

Humans are the only species with a developed consciousness which allows us to know there’s a tomorrow – as far as we know.

Time changes everything.  When you can imagine there’s a tomorrow, you’ve begun to engage your creativity, you’ve seen something which doesn’t exist.  We’ve generated all manner of things as a result: clothing, housing, agriculture, banking – the list is endless – because there’s tomorrow.

And then we want to know we’ve used our time well, that our life matters, that it’s made a difference.  It’s been pointed out that Humans want autonomy, to master skills, and have a purpose and meaning beyond themselves.

A good place to start living significantly is to take the skills we have – be they thinking, relational, actioning, or influencing skills – together with the thing which sets our pulse racing, and zoom it – take it further, abstract it, innovate it.

You still have time.  If you begin right now, you can shape tomorrow.

Seth Godin suggests there are two important things when it comes to time and doing something significant: turn up on time, and cherish the time of others.  Good advice because it highlights the best time of all is the time shared with others.