Time is not the most valuable thing you have. (There’s love and some other things I’d consider a lot more valuable).

But time IS finite. You get a certain amount, no more, and it slides away quickly.

So don’t waste it.

Recreation or sleep or hanging out with friends or pondering the big things of life are not wasting time. What can be a waste is when you don’t realize the time value of material goods.

Let’s say you can make $50 an hour with whatever work you do. If you are doing stuff that you could pay someone else to do it, reconsider.

An example: my house is high in the back and we’re surrounded by trees.

Lots of leaves.

I could clean the leaves out of the gutter myself. Which would mean renting a long ladder and spending an hour or two cleaning the gutters and then picking up the leaves.

But there’s a guy who has it down to a system. He gets everything done in 15 or 20 minutes. Everything.

And he only charges $40.

He saves me time, he saves me work, and he saves me money.

Don’t begrudge paying someone who saves you time. Use your time to do what you’re good at and what you like to do. It’s false economy otherwise.