Hey friends,
here we are on this fantastic Tuesday morning.
Some of you are preparing for Christmas now, what a weird year. I can’t imagine what Christmas markets will look like as we’re getting ready to wrap up the year, but don’t worry, Dench Patel is right year sorry I mean right here to give us (including me) some more things to reflect on.
Sooo, what do you think about this topic? Something to really think about, isn’t?
I’ve come across this topic while I was on an entrepreneurial session with Dean Graziosi, Tony Robbins, Jenna Kutcher, Jamie Kern Lima, Brendon Burchard and some other very intelligent entrepreneurs when I heard this, “Time is currency,” or somewhere along the lines of “Time being the most expensive currency,” then say after one or two weeks, another post in my community of entrepreneurs flashed in front of me which went roughly along the lines of, “How you make people feel is the most expensive currency out there,” and then I thought about the obvious, i.e. what most people believe and that is the most expensive currency is money. There are many lives right now and over the years who moved away from the idea of money being the most expensive currency. Here’s why.
Alright, let’s take a deep dive.
Here we are (needless to be reminded) another year in world history to be remembered forever, Coronavirus. We obviously don’t need to be reminded what came up for us this year, what happened this year, and the number of demons that have come up in the lives of billions of individuals not to mention the darkness that loomed over lives this year. Do you remember, I certainly do, when everyone was so excited about twenty-twenty? As always, we have so much hope. Hope is a good thing.
I’m just here to pose what’s coming to me I’m not here to influence your choices on these three concepts.
Is time the most expensive currency, is money the most expensive currency or is how you’re making someone feel the most expensive currency?
If we’re not going to live our dreams, or the ideas that we believe sound so fascinating inside of us yet we have no confidence that they will ever happen then are we just going to die along with those dreams and ideas on our death bed? When are we going to live if now is not the time to do that thing/those things we’ve been wanting to do for a very long time?
(I’m not referring to living life with instant gratification continuously) We are way beyond this, the world has moved beyond this.
Time has an expiry date; we have no idea when we’re going to breathe our last breath. We have no idea when the people we love will die or how they will die. We can’t guarantee anything only the time we have right this minute. The thing is we’re all trying to balance time harmoniously.
We answer to ourselves when we die, we sit there saying, “I had the time, but I preferred to put a price on my time.” So, I ask us, is the monthly electricity bill we pay to run our home for all the members living in it making us feel that we’ve done something great in our life? What if the time comes where we didn’t predict someone would leave our family forever and it becomes one of the biggest regrets ever because we put a price tag on the time when we could have put time aside to spend with them?
See we live or we use to live in a world where we think paying for something makes us feel better than giving our time to people.
Personally, I’d rather make the most of my time, once upon a time every second mattered to me and what I did with it, I didn’t see burn out coming my way and so it did after three years of living every second with intention. The thing is when you’re twenty-six years of age and haven’t learnt a thing about living life creating a state of flow you just live the best way you know how.
Is time the most expensive currency or is how you make someone feel the most expensive currency?
If you were to ask me this question, then I’ll say time because within the concept of time comes how you plan to spend your time and by the way, I’d love you hear your argument. You can drop your argument in by leaving your comment at the bottom of this post. Let me explain why I say time.
This answer depends completely on the person who is answering this question. It depends completely on the quality of life they desire, how they spend their time, what value time is for them and how they will apply it to others. In various models and studies people desire status, people desire to have their needs met, it’s human, especially if most humans are doing it everywhere, even passion-driven individuals, very intelligent and successful individuals. You need an audience to appreciate and buy into what is ultimately specific to your purpose, not just roaming around like a zombie. I see time as the only opportunity you have to make it happen! Again, if you are unwell due to your own doing, then ask yourself, “How do/did I use my time?”
I see time as a window to build our lives on every level as a gift that comes naturally with life for every one of us, our significant others, our family, friends, work, earning money, health, pleasure, you name it, but it ultimately depends on the type of person and their values on how they will use this time, i.e. what do they value the most?
So, I’d argue that if you have the best intentions, practises and values in place then automatically you will be involved in how you make someone feel. Now do remember, no one can possibly please everyone.
To end, look at the concept where money was once the best currency of living your life and how it has been defeated. Money could make us feel great temporarily, we’d go travelling, we’d go on dinners, we wanted the finest in life but now this virus has closed something as basic as a small independent coffee shop.
Money is just an energy that is a great thing to have if you are doing good things/deeds, time and how you make others feel work in harmony. If you are not only serving yourself and using it to empower others, then that’s when you leave a mark on lives using all three i.e. time, money and how you make others feel. You pretty much left your legacy; the thing is how great do you want that legacy to be? Again, that depends on the individual. – T. Dench Patel, 9 November 2020, 23:02
Yours sincerely,
T. Dench Patel
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