Value-Based Time

Do you have certain tasks that always takes a lot of your time then at the end of the day you feel like you have consumed useless things? And you always end up doing nothing or you only did a portion of your plans?

For example, have you been on your phone in the morning and just scrolling mindlessly and suddenly its already night? Funny cat videos, hilarious girlfriend pranks boyfriend videos kind of thing?

Yes, that’s right! Those routines that took a lot of your time. Most of us nowadays especially we are in the Digital Age are like this. There are hundreds if not, THOUSANDS of distractions that takes a lot of our time.

Most low effort tasks with low value in return always make us busy. Same with High effort tasks with low value. We have to lessen it as much as possible. It does not mean we have to take it all away.

Now for the High value plus low effort. These are the tasks that make us become lazy… not because we are lazy but we think that the tasks are so daunting and we overthink and ends up getting stress and not doing it anymore.

Let me tell you this… You should make time for it. This kind of tasks gives a lot of value for you in return.

What kind of tasks? Well, we can say some Reading, Learning a new skill, developing a habit, Journaling, any tasks that require lots of effort but yields high value.

Have you also done some tasks that you only do less effort but has High value in return?

This is tricky as we might confuse this with just watching cat videos right?

You just open your phone and find an app that has cat videos in it. Watching these videos are awesome and rewarding plus it require less effort to do so. But this is not we are talking about.

We are talking about urgency here. Things that are urgent that needs to be done as soon as possible. We might be talking about the dishes in the sink that was left behind. It has value to you as you will be needing it later once you will have your meal. But that is just an example, but you get the idea.

Whenever we are about to do somethings we need to make sure what’s the value its giving back to us. Time is precious and we need to be smart in spending it. Its the most expensive currency in the world. It is not renewable.

Have you found your value?