A short motivational message by TJ Walker (YouTube #shorts) arguing that financial discipline—spending less than you earn and building savings—gives you power to refuse undesirable work offers and thus control your time. Walker frames control over time as the key to happiness and issues a brief call-to-action to adopt his habit.
Your parents have probably told you, save more money, spend less. Your financial advisor has said that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you say. But here's why it's really important. Every single day you're going to get offers. Your boss is going to say, work at this boring job for X amount of dollars. If you don't have a better offer, you take it. A new client could say, work for me, and it's going to be late hours and not as much as you want. Take it or leave it. When you get in the habit of spending less money than you make, of reducing your overhead, of accumulating more savings, you get power to say no to all the other opportunities you get every day for your time. And ultimately, having control over your time is what's going to make you happy. Please follow the TJ Walker habit.
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