Time Billionaires: What it Means to be Truly Wealthy
Divide your life into time units and invest every unit wisely
Life is finite — what have you done about it?
What’s your time worth? I’ve been reading a lot about the value of time lately.
I have almost finished Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. He makes a good case for wisely using our ridiculously short time on earth without obsessing about trying to do everything.
“The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things,” says Oliver Burkeman.
Many people underrate how much time they have but complain about having little time. They don’t respect time until it’s too late.
“You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity,” says Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA.
24 hours is long enough if you can put it into good use. If you can invest it like you would your money, you will be on a better trajectory in life.
What are you up to in the next 30 minutes? Is that investment of time in your control? How will you…
