TIME=MONEY


                                    TIME=MONEY

 As a child, I used to listen to a song titled Time is Money.

One of the lines of the song says use your time well, stop gossiping and hovering around aimlessly.


I’d like to use this line to share this story which everyone probably has heard about but pay little attention to.

Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400.

It carries over no balance from day to day.

Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day.

What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course?

Each of us has such a bank.

Its name is TIME.

Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.

Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose.

It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day.

If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against "tomorrow."

You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!

The clock is running!! Make the most of today.

Every time I read this article, I always ask myself this fundamental question:
1. “What is the best use of my Time?

2. What is the best use of my 86,400 seconds of my daily life?”

I had the privilege of asking a billionaire what the best use of his time is and the answer he gave me was very thrilling.

He said to me that the best use of his time is doing the things he loves doing, teaching world class business leaders, managing the CEOs of his numerous businesses, and delegating the other tasks in the business such as Finance and Operations to the experts who work in the organization.

His answer made me understand that the best use of your time is delegating non-essential tasks to experts, so that you can focus on the essentials and the most important task.

So I ask you today? What is the best use of your time?



The best use of your time must translate to something that gives you joy first and then pays you next.

Because even if you make all the money in the world and you are unhappy, you have accomplished nothing.

So Focus on doing things that makes you happy and you will be so engrossed in it, that you will lose track of time and in a matter of time, it will make you money.

So, I like to conclude by saying Time is not equal to money.

Time is equal to everything because our happiness is tied to what we do and that involves the use of Time.

Therefore, Time is everything.

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