Time Is Not Money, Just Currency — Is There a Gold Standard Behind It?

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/p><p id="2e5c">Through this analogy, time is just a currency whose value increases and decreases. How can you increase the value of your time?</p><h1 id="031c">Attention is money, not time</h1><p id="7f52">The more you act with conscious attention (money), the more valuable your time (currency) is. <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-headline-lies-clickbait-and-critical-thinking-74efa2d9df42">Scrolling the news feed is worthless.</a></p><p id="2aba">Your time can become worthless like any country’s currency. But you can increase the value of your time by strengthening your ability to focus.</p><p id="af60">Simple exercise: Do only one thing at a time. Hard exercise: Say no.</p><p id="a245"><b>Gold standard:</b></p><p id="6931" type="7">It is not a long life that is valuable, but a conscious one.</p><p id="36e5">

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What do you do <a href="https://readmedium.com/a-shocking-calculation-of-wasted-time-about-writing-and-speaking-cc836c42b56c">to make your time more valuable?</a></p><div id="a83e" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/a-shocking-calculation-of-wasted-time-about-writing-and-speaking-cc836c42b56c"> <div> <div> <h2>A Shocking Calculation of Wasted Time</h2> <div><h3>I calculated, and since then I write and speak much less.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*k138bhkn1jWiaHSKIJbVUQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

PRECIOUS TIME

Time Is Not Money, Just Currency — Is There a Gold Standard (Mindfulness) Behind It?

This is the only way to increase the value of your time.

Money and currency are two separate concepts

Attention is money, not time

A Shocking Calculation of Wasted Time

I calculated, and since then I write and speak much less.