Time is our most valuable resource. To inspire you to make the most of your time, here are some interesting quotes about it.
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."
Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford University Commencement Speech
Steve Jobs' speech at the 2005 Stanford University is a simple talk that contains powerful lessons about connecting the dots, love and loss, and confronting mortality. In less than 15 minutes, Jobs shares 3 stories about his life and their importance in a way that is straightforward and yet profoundly memorable. One of those lessons is that "your time is limited" so follow your "own inner voice". Our mission with Cron is to help people build their lives around the moments that are important to them. It is, first and foremost, a tool to help you live your own life - to the fullest.
"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly."
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Alice Walker's 1982 novel The Color Purple is amongst the most influential of all-time - critically acclaimed, award winning, as well as being one of the most banned. While a lot themes outside of time are more deeply explored, this statement is both succinct and profound. The experience of time is highly subjective. It can seem like it takes forever for an event to happen, then it seems to have passed in a blur. Cron is a tool to balance that perspective out. It allows you to plan and reflect on upcoming events as well as remember and celebrate the past.
"We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers."
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
Seneca the Younger was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, "a sage admired and venerated as an oracle of moral, even of Christian edification; a master of literary style and a model for dramatic art." In On The Shortness of Life, he applies Stoic principles on the nature of time to argue that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits even though nature gives us enough time to do what is important. Cron gives people a tool to make clear what is important to them. Without a reminder of what's important to you it's easy to not be thrifty with your time. By the same token, there are countless money management and tools to make you more productive (mostly in the economic sense). Cron instead aims to help you get more contentment.
Time is a resource we cannot renew. From Steve Jobs' reminder to follow our own hearts, to Walker's reflection of the pace of life, to Seneca's call for mindful use of our days, these voices remind us that what we do with our time defines us. With Cron, our goal is to make those moments visible. Because when you take your own time more seriously, life becomes richer, fuller, and truly your own.