A short spoken segment (YouTube) by Jeffrey Jaime about deliberately saying no to low-value demands so you can prioritize people and opportunities that matter. The speaker frames time as the most precious asset and defines awareness as the ongoing ability to notice when your mind is drifting and pull it back to the present to avoid wasting time.
The only way that you unlock time, wealth, is when you learn to say no to the things that don't matter, so that you can say yes to the things and to the people that do. And that could be business opportunities, or it could be time with your wife and son. Awareness is about recognizing this fact that time is your most precious asset. And it's not just recognizing it in the abstract sense. It's not just, you know, listening to this and saying, yes, I understand. Time is my most precious asset. Really, recognizing it on an ongoing basis is a much more challenging thing to recognize, you know, when you find yourself drifting, when you find yourself, you know, wasting time on dumb things, to be able to pull yourself back, using that awareness into the present, to recognize the importance of the moment. That's awareness.
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