Time is our most valuable and most scarce asset. We must be wise stewards of it.
A million seconds is 11 days. A billion seconds is 31 years.
How much would money-billionaires trade to once again be time-billionaires? But they can’t…. It is often possible to trade time for money. It is rarely possible to trade money for time.
While not a complete philosophy, the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and associated frameworks for prioritizing time (shown below) are great starting points. We have found them to lead to productive conversations and trade-offs that nudge us in the direction of better use of time, as evidenced through more tightly aligning use of time with living out our values.
Last updated: 2015 (v1)