IF - Part 16

When I was a kid of about 9, I was rummaging through my mom’s desk and found a piece of round, flat wood. The letters TUIT” were carved in large letters in the center. After struggling to reason out what “TUIT” might stand for, I carried the small, coaster-like object to my parents bedroom where my mom sat sewing merit badges on my Scout uniform. “Mom.” I said. “What’s this?” Mom laughed. “I don’t get it.” I said. “Darling,” mom said. “That’s a 'round tuit' — get it? As in whenever you say you’ll do something whenever you get ‘around to it.’ Well, that’s a ‘round tuit.’ It reminds me that I can get around to anything that’s actually important because I already have a ‘round tuit.’ I think it was Napoleon Hill who said, “People who would never dream of killing themselves nevertheless commit suicide every day, little-by-little, by wasting their precious time.” Today is your day to have your own ROUND TUIT. "Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run."