Have you ever considered the time investment required of some of the world’s greatest achievements?

• It took 26 months to build the Eiffel Tower.
• It took Da Vinci four years to paint the Mona Lisa.
• It took Michelangelo four years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
• It took Leo Tolstoy more than six years to write War and Peace.
• It took about 30 years to build the Great Pyramid.
• It took more than 40 years before Beethoven’s Fur Elise was performed.

And I get impatient if microwave popcorn takes too long!

Joking aside, I love this list because it reminds me of just what can be accomplished when a person invests time wisely. Time is the one commodity each person gets in equal measure. As songwriter Chris Rice once wrote, “Every day is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one’s rich, nobody’s poor—we get 24 hours each.”

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