How You Spend Your Time Is How You Spend Your Life

The greatest use of time

Thomas Oppong

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Many people are happy to think twice about how they spend their money but not how they spend their time. They are willing to trade time for money but won’t trade money to unlock more time for meaningful experiences.

When you put a value on time, your choices, habits, experiences and routines change. Your perception of time will determine what you do.

Time is money, but we rarely think deeply about that simple statement. You can’t make money without time. And you need money to save or make more time for even more experiences.

You can have all the time in the world, but what you want in life could take more time than you expect if you spend it on less valuable things.

“Time is free, but its priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” Harvey MacKay once said.

The currency of life is time

“How we spend our days, is, of course, how we spend our lives.” — Annie Dillard

Great scientists, high achievers, ultra-successful people and your icons in life have access to the same time you…

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Thomas Oppong
Thomas Oppong

Written by Thomas Oppong

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