“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”

— Harvey Mackay

Time just is. I can’t manage myself out of getting older, my kids from growing up, or the seasons from changing. None of us can.

Time isn’t a dog awaiting my command. Time is a wave that we must learn how to ride. Gandalf the Grey said it correctly: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

Though we can’t manage time from happening, we can make most of the time that is happening.

I woke up to the value of time when I had my first child. I’ve become constantly aware that if I want to do a, b, and c with my son, I have to give up x, y, and z. 

It’s the same idea with business. If I spend 10 hours a week doing administrative work, I’ve given up 10 hours a week of helping build financial plans for clients. That’s a big sacrifice, and I’ve learned to delegate so that I can spend my time helping as many people as I can. I’ve rebalanced my time to spend it on what’s most important.

How valuable is your time?

Are there items in your life that are getting more or less attention than they deserve? We don’t know the days and hours allocated to us in our lifetime. Are you spending them well?

Have you put any attention to the time you want to spend in the future? Does your financial plan line up with how you want to spend that time?

Let’s talk about that.