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To Invest Your Time Wisely, Think of It As A Tradable Currency

What’s your relationship with time?

Thomas Oppong
4 min readJun 4, 2021
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We’ve all heard it before; time is money.

But it’s your time really a precious commodity for you? Many people make money to buy time freedom. The value you place on time depends on what you get in return for it. We exchange time for money and freedom.

How you spend time is how you spend your life.

Time is a currency we all have to trade. Many people trade their time salaries. Others work for themselves and invest their time in diverse projects and sources of income.

“The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that.” Robert Harris said.

The paradox of time is that it can be spent on anything and by anyone at any time. True wealth means the freedom to spend, invest and save time. Everyone experiences time differently.

Some spend a greater percentage of their time working. Others have more of it but haven’t figured out how to invest it yet. And yet others can’t get enough of it to create meaningful experiences.

My time is either spent, invested or saved. I spend a more significant percentage of my day writing and reading. Reading informs my writing. And writing makes…

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Thomas Oppong
Thomas Oppong

Written by Thomas Oppong

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