The One Thing Most People Don't Realize About Their Time

0:00Reminder for anyone internally debating weekend plans. If you don't want to go, don't go. If they care whether you go or not, they don't care about you. And if they care about you, they don't care if you go or not. Just because you have free time doesn't mean anyone who asks for it is entitled to it. I think the the second part I want to start with, which is if you see that you have an empty calendar, most people assume that if someone asks you for that time, it's therefore theirs.

0:37And it's only not theirs when someone else has claimed it. Which means that your time only belongs to other people. And then you're surprised by the fact that your investment of time has yielded nothing for you when you've given the only and most valuable asset that you have to everyone else who often give a very poor return on it for you.

1:04And so in the beginning, if you don't have money, the only thing you have is time. And so that is the only thing that you is the only currency you can spend to improve yourself or get closer to your goals. And so if that's the one currency you have, then why on earth would you give it away? I think it's genuinely right to say that your calendar is a better measure of your wealth than your bank account.

1:29It's also the easiest way to know where someone's going to be in 5 years. Or even a year. How so? You just see what they're where they're investing their time, and you can predict like more accurately what their life is going to look like in a year based on what they're doing today. And it's a good thing, you know, for us it's hard for me not to put the business stuff into it, but a reminder that the life that I'm living today is a result of the work that I did 6 and 12 months ago. And so if you were to look at my calendar 6 and 12 months ago, then you might extrapolate out to what I'm doing today. But, just like people want the immediate reward, they also see their current condition as a result of the behavior they're doing today. It's not not at all. And so, that's why I think having, in some ways, a very vivid imagination of like this is where I think the the benefit of {quote} visualization comes into play. I don't see it as much as a benefit for like, oh, I have to imagine this thing to happen. But, I think it's more powerful to think, I'm doing this thing today and I'm imagining it happening. So, it's an approximation of the feedback loop that you want to have. And so, it helps you substitute and get through the period where nothing's actually happening. Real quick, if you're a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift.

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