“Life is the struggle to keep
death at a respectable distance” – Jim Rohn.
It
seems rather strange to me how so many of us are continually conscious of how we
spend our money yet give much less thought to how we spend our time. Time isn't
money. Time is far more precious than money. As Jim Rohn repeatedly
said, "You can always get more money but you can't get more
time". Time is life.
We are each of us given a very limited supply of time. Some of us don't get much time at all. My brother died when he was 14 years old. He didn't get much time - yet it seems to me he'd made the most of the time he had.
Imagine if we began to track our time in the way that some of us track our money. How much of it would be spent on "junk"? Just as we can look at our financial expenditure and regret spending so much on fast food that month we could look at our time and lament "time lost" or apparently "wasted" in situations we found depressing, wasteful, meaningless or generally non-productive.
Money is not our life. Time is the fabric of our life. Should we budget our time like money? I think so. Just as we seek value for money shouldn't we also seek value for our time?
Some of the things I would really like to spend time on include:
-Being with the people I love.
-Being with our pets and animals in general.
-Gardening.
-Designing and making jewellery.
-Craftwork.
-Photography.
-Writing.
-Reading books with real substance.
-Cooking fresh, nutritious, delicious meals.
-Meditation, deep breathing.
-Exercise.
-Enjoying Nature.
Some of the things I'd like to spend less or no time on include:
-Being online (unless it's for a productive purpose).
-Being in the presence of negative, toxic people.
-Watching television (which I rarely do).
-Procrastinating.
-Being disorganized.
Time management - it sounds to me a bit like herding cats - easier said than done but truthfully I believe it's a skill we all should have. Time is money? No, time is your life, your very life. Be careful how you spend it.
We are each of us given a very limited supply of time. Some of us don't get much time at all. My brother died when he was 14 years old. He didn't get much time - yet it seems to me he'd made the most of the time he had.
Imagine if we began to track our time in the way that some of us track our money. How much of it would be spent on "junk"? Just as we can look at our financial expenditure and regret spending so much on fast food that month we could look at our time and lament "time lost" or apparently "wasted" in situations we found depressing, wasteful, meaningless or generally non-productive.
Money is not our life. Time is the fabric of our life. Should we budget our time like money? I think so. Just as we seek value for money shouldn't we also seek value for our time?
Some of the things I would really like to spend time on include:
-Being with the people I love.
-Being with our pets and animals in general.
-Gardening.
-Designing and making jewellery.
-Craftwork.
-Photography.
-Writing.
-Reading books with real substance.
-Cooking fresh, nutritious, delicious meals.
-Meditation, deep breathing.
-Exercise.
-Enjoying Nature.
Some of the things I'd like to spend less or no time on include:
-Being online (unless it's for a productive purpose).
-Being in the presence of negative, toxic people.
-Watching television (which I rarely do).
-Procrastinating.
-Being disorganized.
Time management - it sounds to me a bit like herding cats - easier said than done but truthfully I believe it's a skill we all should have. Time is money? No, time is your life, your very life. Be careful how you spend it.
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