| What’s the world’s most valuable resource?
It’s not cash or gold or silver. It’s not real estate. It’s not even books. It’s time. Time is our most valuable resource because it’s the most limited. Once lost, it’s lost forever. There’s always more money to be made or more houses to be invested in, but our time is finite, and it runs out quickly.
Furthermore, it’s the resource by which we acquire all other resources, which makes it the most powerful one of all. Without time, we can’t experience or enjoy anything else in life. Time is the very medium of life itself.
At the back of one of my journals, I have a list of habits I want to develop. I focus on one or two at a time, and once they’ve worked their way into my routine, I move on to the next.
One habit was on this list for quite a while: play with my daughter every day. I kept telling myself that after I’d established a good reading habit or a good exercise routine, I’d move on to daddy-daughter time. It’s not that I wasn’t spending any time with her, but it wasn’t a regular daily habit.
“I’ll make it a habit later,” I thought. “I have plenty of time.” I went on like that for about a year. Suddenly, my daughter was three instead of two.
I once heard a saying, “Our priorities are what we do. Everything else is just talk.” We show what we really care about by what we spend our most precious resources on. If we’re unwilling to actually commit time to a certain activity, then it can’t be all that important to us, even if we act like it is.
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