Throwing away time and money

Steve Acho
Nov 4 · 1 min read

Imagine having $1,440 and someone stealing $1 from you. Would you then throw away the other $1,439 in an act of vengeance?

This is exactly what we do when we respond to a one minute insult or upsetting event by letting it affect the rest of the minutes in the day. Simple math should reveal something obvious…

We shouldn’t waste 99.9% of our time and attention because of the .01% that perturbed us.

Steve Acho

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