The Quality of Your Life is The Quality of Your Time Investment

Invest your time for a life-changing return

Thomas Oppong
Mind Cafe
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3 min readMay 9, 2021

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Where did the time go?

You’ve probably asked this question a lot in your life. You are either spending time, investing time or wasting time.

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” William Penn said. Time is finite or limited, but we insist on spending it instead of investing it.

What’s the best use of your time? How do you spend your time currency? Where does your 24 hours go? The ugly truth is, many people spend more time than they invest — but expect a different outcome.

The quality of your life cannot be greater than the quality of your daily time investment. Warren Buffett invests 80% of his time reading and thinking: that’s how he finds relevant knowledge that guides his investment choices.

Whatever gets your attention determines your outputs in life. If you invest in low-value tasks every or feed your distractions, don’t expect your outcomes to rise above your actions.

Your inputs will always determine your outputs

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time…

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Thomas Oppong
Mind Cafe

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