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The Magnification Rule: Time Compounds Whatever You Feed It

Are you feeding your good habits or distractions?

Thomas Oppong
4 min readAug 16, 2022
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Time is your greatest ally or your worst enemy. Time is the ultimate healer and a great destroyer. If you nurture it, time can make you a better version of yourself beyond your imagination.

However, if you don’t feed time the right things, it will devour you from within. How much time do you spend deliberately stacking good habits? Are you feeding your distractions? Every activity, task or experience you use to pass time is either helping you become a better or worse version of yourself.

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you,” says Carl Sandburg.

Have you ever thought about what time could do for you? Everyone has different needs, motivations and circumstances that can either help or hinder their progress towards their goals. To achieve what you want in life, leverage time to your benefit.

The question of how you spend your time is critical in your personal and professional life. It’s not enough to live — you have to design how you spend time to make the most of it. You also must ensure you’re spending the right amount of time on the…

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Thomas Oppong
Thomas Oppong

Written by Thomas Oppong

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