Nir Eyal says treat time like money: be stingy with it. Most people guard their wallet but hand out hours freely. Start with your values, then build your schedule around them.
Let's start with tomorrow by asking yourself, how would the person I want to become spend their time? There's a reason that we use the same language around time as we do with money, right? We pay with money and dollars and cents, just like we pay attention. We spend time, we spend money. We do these things because in very similar ways, they are valuable things. And even though you can always make more money, you can't make more time, right? People are stingy with their money. Think about how we split checks, we save coupons, we look for deals. And we're so liberal with our time. We give our time to whoever wants it, whatever stupid thing somebody wants from us, sure. But we're so stingy with our money. And it should be exactly the opposite. We should be stingy with our time and generous with our money. So when it comes to figuring out our goals, what we have to do is to simply start with our values, and we have to turn those values into time.
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