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Value of Time vs Money

I have a special person in my life and she has been my inspiration and guidance since my birth.
In our recent conversation she mentioned about the true value of time and how people waste it by giving more importance to money.
Following is the excerpt from that conversation:

We keep hearing people speak about the value of time but its unbelievable that most of us don't realise it, never take it seriously and very rarely get it into our head
Let me say this to you again - Time is the most important thing in life. No matter what you do lost time won't come back. On the other hand money gone can be earned back.
Every second is valuable and not worth wasting. If most of us think back and look through out lives we will realise that we did nothing great.
Some don't excel in their career, don't excel in their earnings, kill off all the hobbies and never show interest in anything.
People even don't enjoy their lives. And when they think deep why they lost time doing nothing they like, they will realise that its because they give undue importance to money.
They don't want to let go of money and they end up giving up something more precious.
Whenever I speak to my friends or colleague they express great ideas they have but never took the step to implement them and when you ask why, more often than not they say 'it costs money'.
It is true that everything costs money and one should earn enough before thinking of spending that money. But it doesn't mean to stop living your life to save for the future. One should find the balance.
Being so money minded people forget to live their life. They end up dumb, good for nothing person. All because they valued money over time. If they value time, they will start to live life, with that comes happiness and money automatically follows.
Once we realise this we feel like we solved a complex puzzle of our lives.
Money is needed. We should save for future but not at the cost of basic happiness in life. And we simply waste time, just because we never valued time. Once we realise time is so important and 100s of 1000s of times worth more than money then even sleeping feels like wasting time.
Once we unleash this life's most simple yet valuable secret to happiness and money we will never waste time for money. We won't waste life for money.
It is hard to put this into practise but once we start repeating it until it becomes a habit we can get the best of us. We will not regret wasting valuable time.

Have a good day.

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