Your most powerful asset

Take a long slow, deliberate deep breath in.

Fill your strong lungs with life-giving fresh air.

Take this moment. It is yours.

You are free to take this moment FOR yourself.

You are encouraged to spend this moment ON yourself.

Spending time FOR yourself and ON yourself is a necessary and rewarding investment IN yourself.

You more than deserve it. You need it.

Small precious moments purposefully chosen by you are beautiful and worthwhile.

Spend your time wisely. Spend your time on things TRULY important to you and not what you are TOLD is important.

Give yourself the gift of taking time. It allows you the pause you need to create clarity.

Clarity is precious because it stills the waters of this noisy, fast-paced world and allows you to see perfectly what your next step needs to be.

The stillness is special. The clarity, blinding.

Spend time, not money.

Why

Because of the time of our most precious gift.

Like money…

You can squander it

You can lose it

Also, however:

You can spend it

You can give it

You can share it

We only have a finite amount, but it is ours to spend as we please.

Rick Warren, the author of The Purpose Driven Life, put it best.

"Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. So when you give someone your time, you give them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

Whether you are deeply spiritual or a straight dyed-in-the-wool nihilist, the bottom line is that the only thing in the world we are bound to is Time.

Time is our most valuable asset. Not money, not beauty, not status, not anything. It's time. Without it, nothing else matters. Once time runs out, the rest is irrelevant.

Use it wisely,

Prioritise how you spend it.

What would you appreciate most from those you love -their time or their money? Which one will you remember when you are old, grey, and sitting with your thoughts?

Will you remember the things you received that ended up somewhere in landfill many moons before? Or will you remember the time spent doing something you love with people you love? One is the gift of money, and one is the gift of time.

One is easy to gift. The other takes thought and energy.

One will be discarded and forgotten, the other cherished and remembered.

One is functional. The other is life-affirming.

One fills a moment. The other creates eternal memories.

Although, I can promise you that choosing time over money is the harder of the two.

Society will tell you that the perfect gift is a thing, a good and physical material that is bought with money. It can be easy to fall into that trap. (don't get me wrong, buying gifts that mean something is a fantastic thing to do for both giver and receiver. ) However, how many of these material things do you remember? How many physical gifts you received throughout your life can you recall? Do you still have them? Do you know where they are now?

Would it CHANGE your relationship with a loved one if they never gave you another gift except for their time?

I only know that I would love them more, how about you?

Kel 'precious assets' Galavan