Time is the true 💰
So, how do you budget your 24 hours?
I loooooove calendar blocking. 🗓 It looks cute, and it inspires me to tackle the day with zest. More importantly, it sets me up for success.
Having a system that I can rely on simplifies my life and reduces the risk of procrastination (constraints combat overthinking, trust me). It brings a sense of clarity that allows me to focus on the tasks that matter in a particular moment. And it's not just for planning but also for auditing my days.
My calendar shows me where most of my hours go, which pockets of time I can still fill in, and what activities I can cut back on.
This is why I wanna be a time millionaire (billionaire, to be more honest with you).
A time millionaire, according to Nilanjana Roy at the Financial Times, is someone "whose wealth is measured by control over their hours and days — and in the amount of learning and pleasure they get from each working week."
I bet you want that too!
Because time can buy you money (and more), but money can never buy time. 💸⏳
As Arnold Bennet writes in *How to Live on 24 Hours a Day,
“You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time.
Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul. Its right use, its most effective use, is a matter of the highest urgency and of the most thrilling actuality. All depends on that.
Your happiness--the elusive prize that you are all clutching for, my friends!--depends on that. Strange that the newspapers, so enterprising and up-to-date as they are, are not full of “How to live on a given income of time,” instead of “How to live on a given income of money”!
Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is. It encumbers the earth in gross heaps.”
So here's to using the hours we've been given—wisely and delightfully.
With love,
Kishly ❤️
P.S. I've been feeling under the weather the past few days. Would deeply appreciate your prayers! 🙏🏼
📼 Recommendations to Inspire You:
The Infinite Value of Knowing Christ [Sunday Celebration]
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day* [Book]
3 Steps to Free Yourself from the Crushing Cycle of Stress, Overwhelm, and Exhaustion [Marie Forleo's Free Masterclass on Time Management]
Meet the woman who taught me all about calendar blocking [YouTube Video]
✨ Words to Ponder On:
“The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions.” — How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
❤️ Love Verse from Scriptures:
“Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.” —Psalm 90:12 [NLT]
“Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”” —James 4:13-15 [NIV]