Value your time, value your life
“When I had the money, I didn’t have the time. When I had the time, I didn’t have the money” offers an old client as the excuse for everything.
Money can be made, lost, borrowed, loaned, made again, given away and can reproduce itself.
Our “bank” of Earth Time, however, is finite and its balance is never known. Time cannot be made, lost, borrowed, loaned, made again, given away or reproduced. No more time is being made for you… sorry. Hold back your tears and learn the key to valuing Time in 2015 by using the human race’s most powerful word, “no.” Here are some “NO’s” for 2015:
- Say NO to joining another professional organization or committee, unless your heart is in it.
- Say NO to attending a wedding, function or fundraiser because you feel obliged to go.
- Say NO to searching the internet for every whimsical thought that enters your mind.
- Say NO to taking every phone call – make and take your calls when you are organized and focused.
- Say NO to co-worker distractions when you are in the middle of a project – I put in headphones as a polite way of signaling no.
- Say NO to worrying about every news story – there will be a similar story to replace that one soon enough.
- Say NO to having to know everything about everything – it is easier to say “I don’t know” than you might think.
- Say NO to skipping your workout, walk or meditation.
- Say NO to working on your vacation – when you are gone, someone else will get the job done or you will get it done when you get back.
- Say NO to every person that advances time and energy wasting positions, projects and arguments – you know better than to engage with these types.
See ya next year!
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