THE VALUE OF TIME

Time is a valuable commodity. With all the riches in the world, you can’t buy it back. Until such time that you can value yourself, you won’t be able to put value with your time. Until you value your time, you’re not going to do anything with it. Think about it.

There are approximately 52 weeks in 1 calendar year. To be exact, that’s about 52.1429 weeks. If let’s say you get to live 80 years from the time you were born, which is the average life expectancy now, you have about 4,160 weeks to live. I’m about to turn 40 this year, so I would put it at approximately 2,038 weeks that I’ve lived and about 2,122 more weeks to live. Looking and writing it should scare me for a few moments, but it shouldn’t. When you learn how to value your own time, you will try your best to be meaningful and intentional about it.

People do not pay for things with money, they pay for them with their time. If you say to yourself that in 5 years times, you will have enough money put aside to buy that house that I dreamed about, that’s about 260 weeks of your adult life. The short phrase spending your time is not a metaphor but just means how life works. What does it mean?

Think about your goals in terms of time spent to achieve them. Instead of thinking about what you do and what you purchase in terms of money. Are you thinking about it now as you read this?

Look at your agenda this week and see if these tasks on your agenda worthy to be part of your life.

Now ask yourself this, what is worth spending your entire life on? Seeing your work in that perspective might just change the way you manage your time, or perhaps the value of your time moving forward.