"Spending" our Lives
The following quote was in a Reader's Digest years and years ago. (I save way too much stuff.) It's from Charles Spezzano's book What to Do Between Birth and Death:
"You don't really pay for things with money. You pay for them with time. 'In five years, I'll have put enough away to buy that vacation house we want; then I'll slow down.' That means the house will cost you five years -- 1/12th of your adult life. Translate the dollar value of the house, car or anything else into time, and then see if it's still worth it. Sometimes you can't do what you want and have what you want at once because each requires a different expenditure of time. The phrase 'spending your time' is not a metaphor. It's how life works."
Makes me think.
Having recently clicked past 53 on my birthday-ometer I wonder how long I can "afford" to delay projects that I have considered to be lifetime goals? If they're what I really want to do then I'd better figure out a way to "budget" some time for them, huh? Not out of a fear of "running out of" time, but out of a desire to really be doing what I was put on this planet to do in the first place. Or should I say, "spending" my life in alignment with my deepest values, desires and capabilities.
To delve further into the topic of doing what you're "supposed" to be doing, visit Max Lucado's webinar on the Cure for the Common Life. He puts things together in a combination I had never considered. Learned things about myself.
His book by the same title hits bookstores tomorrow, January 3rd. I'm gonna get a copy.
"You don't really pay for things with money. You pay for them with time. 'In five years, I'll have put enough away to buy that vacation house we want; then I'll slow down.' That means the house will cost you five years -- 1/12th of your adult life. Translate the dollar value of the house, car or anything else into time, and then see if it's still worth it. Sometimes you can't do what you want and have what you want at once because each requires a different expenditure of time. The phrase 'spending your time' is not a metaphor. It's how life works."
Makes me think.
Having recently clicked past 53 on my birthday-ometer I wonder how long I can "afford" to delay projects that I have considered to be lifetime goals? If they're what I really want to do then I'd better figure out a way to "budget" some time for them, huh? Not out of a fear of "running out of" time, but out of a desire to really be doing what I was put on this planet to do in the first place. Or should I say, "spending" my life in alignment with my deepest values, desires and capabilities.
To delve further into the topic of doing what you're "supposed" to be doing, visit Max Lucado's webinar on the Cure for the Common Life. He puts things together in a combination I had never considered. Learned things about myself.
His book by the same title hits bookstores tomorrow, January 3rd. I'm gonna get a copy.
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