The Currency You Can't Earn Back: Why Time is Your Most Valuable Asset
By Oudney Patsika | Business Growth Consultant
Every day, we pay for things. We exchange currency for food, for music, for a couch, for the ability to charge our cell phones, and even for basic elements of living like water. It is second nature to us, this "giving to get."
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| We fret over bank balances, but are we auditing our most finite resource? |
We fret and obsess over how much money we have and don't have. We measure success by the things we've paid incredible sums to own or by the salaries attached to our jobs. But in this conditioning—this endless cycle of buying, getting, selling, and gathering—we become desensitized to an exchange that is far more expensive.
Money blinds us from the currency we forget about for most of our lives: The Currency of Time.
The Invisible Transaction
Time is a currency we use every single moment we are alive, often without realizing the cost.
When we commute to work, we are spending time getting to a place where we do tasks for others. At that job, you are exchanging time for the ability to provide for yourself and your family. It is a necessary trade, but a trade nonetheless.
If you are talking to another person, you are investing time in exchange for their company or insight. If you are playing with your children, the time you are spending is to pay for their development and joy. We are using our time in exchange for things constantly, and the shame of it is mostly we don't know it.
The Beauty and The Ugly
Time is a finite thing. Unlike money, which can be earned, lost, and earned again, time is not a resource we can replenish. We simply have what we have. And that's it. It is the space where we are all truly equal, with no classes or strata separating us.
The beauty of time is that it can be spent on anything. This is also its ugliest feature. We can use our time on things that don't matter—worrying about online conversations or playing mindless digital games. When we have only a set amount of time on this plane of existence, spending it on inconsequential things is a tragic expense.
Strategic Spending
It is worth it to budget our time on things that ring as truly important.
By budgeting, I do not mean being frugal. Spend your time lavishly but not frivolously. Give it to those beings that you know are worth it. Let go of the rest.
Exchange it for life. Exchange it for the feeling of new experiences, the thrill of being where you are, no matter where that place is at the moment. Cultivate love. Explore yourself within and without.
The Ultimate Wealth
Time is your most valuable thing. It's worth more than any amount of money you can ever accumulate. We are rich with it, no matter how much of it we have left.
Be open and present, and you may find that satisfaction of knowing that you've used your own currency of time well. To build a life that honours your worth, you must first honour your time.
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