{"id":114,"date":"2018-05-13T19:22:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T19:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inf0rmatix.de\/?p=114"},"modified":"2018-05-13T19:34:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T19:34:15","slug":"you-are-investing-every-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inf0rmatix.de\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"You are investing every second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That&#8217;s literally what you&#8217;re doing. Your time is the most valuable good you possess, and the one least thought about when spending.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border-width: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/inf0rmatix.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/if_hourglass_1055043.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People talk\u00a0 about investments, like buying a house, or a fund, or some stocks. So much time is put into the process of choosing what to invest our money in, how to get the best out of the money we have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the very first investment you&#8217;re making is investing your time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the second your live starts, your time starts depleting, that&#8217;s in the nature of all things:<br \/>\nTime is passing, always, and nobody can do anything to change that.<br \/>\nWhat you can do, is to treat it as the invaluable good it is.<\/p>\n<p>Ever wondered at the end of the day where your time went, how fast the day passed?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I did, and very often. At some point, a decision was made. I decided to take control of my time.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds familiar, doesn&#8217;t it? But, still, most people dont just spend their time, they throw it away.<br \/>\nTake a few minutes and think about how much time you are spending on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>social media<\/li>\n<li>complaining about something<\/li>\n<li>watching TV<\/li>\n<li>playing games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The point is not to tell you that you must stop using and doing all these things. Neither is the list any where near complete.<\/p>\n<p>But it is about making you think. You won&#8217;t learn much, when I write how and what you should think, but if I point you towards the right direction and give you some hints about what the goal is, you can achieve it the way that suits you best.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve your goals you will need time.\u00a0 There is time we can not do much about, like the time we sleep. Or the time you&#8217;re at work. But after all, taking my schedule as an example, I came up with the following:<\/p>\n<p>Every day is 24 hours of my time, the usual schedule for my weekday looks like so<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>7:00 a.m. wake up, get up (those are two different things!)<\/li>\n<li>go to the gym and have breakfast<\/li>\n<li>9:00 a.m. be at the office and start working<\/li>\n<li>1:oo p.m. break starts<\/li>\n<li>2:00 p.m. break ends<\/li>\n<li>6:00 p.m. leave the office<\/li>\n<li>6:30 p.m. arrive at home and eat dinner<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice that I didnt write a mathematical calculation, like you would have propably done. I did that too. Looks great &#8211; doesn&#8217;t work. \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nAs I mentioned earlier, I sleep about 8 hours, so I have, to my full own expense:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 hour during my break<\/li>\n<li>4 hours after work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most people would then watch tv, browse facebook, instagram, twitter or some other social media, maybe play some games. A lot less people would also go play a sport like tennis or go to the gym.<\/p>\n<p>But what everybody, or close to everybody, has in common, is that they&#8217;re not willing to work during their freetime.<\/p>\n<p>But this time, I am not speaking about working for your company, I talk about working on yourself. The time you are spending reading this blogpost is time you are investing, investing in yourself.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of the keyfeatures which distinguish the average people from those who will achieve their goals. Jeff Olson puts it like this in his book &#8220;The slight edge&#8221;:<br \/>\n9 out of 10 people will rather choose the (seemingly) more comfortable way of living.<\/p>\n<p>But I, and maybe you too, want more than the average. We want success. And we want it badly. So take your time, think about what you&#8217;re doing with your time.<\/p>\n<p>And in the end you might want to keep this sentence in mind:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What will doing this or that help me to be successful?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s literally what you&#8217;re doing. Your time is the most valuable good you possess, and the one least thought about when spending. People talk\u00a0 about investments, like buying a house, or a fund, or some stocks. 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