Time is money. At least that's the way the saying goes.
Or is it money is life?
Or life is money?
In their classic book, Your Money or Your Life, Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin offer this brilliant bit of perspective:
Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for.
Our life energy is our allotment of time here on earth, the hours of precious life available to us. When we go to our jobs we are trading our life energy for money. This truth, while simple, is profound.
Spending a $20 bill on something frivolous takes on new meaning when we realize we had to trade some of our limited life energy for it. We spent some of our life earning that money. Life energy (time) that can never be replaced.
Is the thing we're purchasing worth the tradeoff?
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Great points for wisely spending our hard-earned money.
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