Value Your Time

Here are tips for how to value time, spend money to buy time, make the most of your time, and figure out when to retire when life becomes more about time than money.

While you have the potential for unlimited wealth creation. You have limited time. As such, time is an important factor to consider with regards to your financial plans.

Your time is limited, finite, and the amount you have is reduced with every minute that ticks by. And, unlike money, you can’t stash time in a bank to be used in the future. Though the concepts are inter-related, how you spend your time is probably more important than how you earn, spend and save your money.

Therefore, your time is an important (maybe even the most important) consideration when planning for financial wellness. In fact, people who value time more than money tend to be happier.

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