Showing posts with label The value of time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The value of time. Show all posts

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Time Management and Money

Time is money. Managing time is saving money. If you want to make money, you need to manage your time very carefully and avoid anything which distracts you and takes you away from your primary focus. What time worth varies from persons to person. Every seconds of every day has monetary value, no matter what you are doing. While most people earn $7.25 an hours others earn more depending on the worth placed on time. Knowing how much time to schedule for each job is critical. Time is a resource you must invest it carefully. The bottom line is to start thinking of your time as the precious commodity it is. Time is money - so invest it. Invest it in those areas that produce the most benefit and lead toward living a full and enriched life. Stop just spending time, wasting time, and giving time away. Invest it!

  Thinking of Time as Money
Assign a monetary value to your time, and watch how much less of it you are willing to waste on unimportant stuff. When you are not sure an activity is worthwhile, calculate how much it will cost to do it. Watching TV suddenly becomes very expensive, money that could take you closer to your dream. The choice is yours.  Change the way you manage your time. There are four primary things we can do with money. It can be spent, it can be saved, it can be invested, and it can be given away. Time cannot be saved. It passes by, second by second, 1,460 minutes, each and every day. Once it is gone, you can never get it back. You have only three options for using the time you are given each day. You can spend it, you can give it away, and you can invest it. To spend money means to pay out money or give money for something in return.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

The Value Of Time

Each person begins the day with the same valuable resource-you have 24hours until tomorrow at this time. It does not matter who you are and what you do, time is one resource given to each person in an equal share. Your time is your most valuable asset, much more valuable than money. Time is one resource that can not be replenished; once this day ends that time is gone forever.

To make the most of your time and use that valuable asset in the most productive way requires value for time.

Value time more than anything else:
Your time is your most valuable asset and should not be compromised. If you determine how much your time is worth, you will value how much you spend it. Don't allow people waste your time for you. When you have a high value on your time, other people will start to value your time too.

Determine what is important:
There are so many things that require your time, but not all of them are worth your time. You must never find time for anything. If you think it is not important then decline dealing with it. Al way ask yourself if the thing taking your time is worth it, now or in the future.

Set Goals:
If you shoot at nothing you will always get nothing. Goals help to set priorities of what's important and what's not. When you do not have a clear sense of where you are going, you will never know how to get there. Set daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and long term goals and you will attract the things you need to create it.

Take action consistently towards your goal:
Do something everyday towards your goals. It does not matter if you can only do a little bit every day. Just do something!Being consistent is more important than doing a lot, because it is the habit of taking the right actions that you want to develop.

Take responsibility for your result.
Decide today to take 100% responsibility for your results. When you accept responsibility you take control of changing the results. When you blame external forces (like time) for your results you give away all control to change them.