Concerning the improvement of time

Time is all that we have in this life. And it is only experienced in one channel at a time. In other words, nobody can experience two things at a time, nobody can think two thoughts at a time; Each life is lived singularly in parallel to others. Our thread makes up a single thread in the fabric.

The question is, what are you doing with your time? In this single channel, what are the thoughts, words and deeds being produced from your allotment of time?

Time is either spent usefully or wasted. Time spent watching a movie, for example, on auto-pilot, for lack of a better word, is wasted. Time spent learning, seeking understanding, serving, growing, etc. is never wasted.

The prophet Alma says "we must improve our time". What is *improved* time? We can begin to answer this by answering the question "what does the verb improve mean?"

Improve:
1. to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition.
2. to make more useful, profitable, or valuable.
3. to make good use of; turn to account:
4. to increase in value, excellence, etc.; become better.
5. to make better, as by revision, addition, or change.

Time:
1.the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.

Per these definitions the phrase "improved time" can have several facets.
Firstly, the definition of time seems to be related to "events". Those events can be of long or small duration, small to the tiniest degree. Also those events have a succession. i.e. some events inextricably proceed others, and they are in an exact order. (At least in our perception of it - because our perception runs in a single thread.)

Now, "improved time" could mean a succession of events that are made better, more valuable, more productive.

I submit that because the succession of events is necessarily sequential, in the definition of "improved time", they build upon each other. In other words, each event is a step in a higher direction, of which step could not be attained to without the one preceding it.

Contrast this with a succession of non-improvement, or degrading events. In the former, one would have "random" events, one preceding the other, where nothing is build upon. e.g. fleeting from one thought to the next. In the latter, where one event degrades from the quality of the preceding one. e.g. falling into wastefulness.

I think that the sate we are meant to achieve is "continuously improving time" - to coin a phrase. Where one event always builds upon another.

I believe that in the single-threaded consciousness of one's life, there are three kinds of events: Thoughts, Words, and Deeds.

Thoughts consisting of images and impressions upon ones' mind. The nature of such we are continually rejecting or accepting as part of our reality. Thus we build a concept of all things... Our time is spent always thinking, and thus "traded" for our version of an understanding of all things.

Words are solely meant for communication, and in its simplest form are used to communicate our perception of reality to others. In exchanging words, we perform a process of submitting concepts for enlightening, degrading, or otherwise changing the development of or makeup of the concept of all things - as well as our own.

Deeds are always preceded by thoughts, (as are other thoughts and words), and are a manifestation of what thoughts we are entertaining. Of the three, deeds are perhaps the most powerful, it is the force of our thoughts upon the physical world. With thoughts, we affect ourself only, with words, we may affect others, but only if they choose to be affected by it. Deeds always affect ourselves and others, although they may come to no effect (as with words and thoughts).

The point here is that thoughts are the key to "improved time". We need to continually challenge ourselves in order to improve our time and build upon the ever passing moment.