Mindset Shift: Time, money, and work

Societal messaging pushes the connections between time, work, and money, and it usually looks like this: spending maximum time doing optimal work will result in more money - repeat from the day you turn 16 until death or retirement. The response to this "flow" is an overemphasis on job-based earnings as the primary - dare I say, only - source of money as well as net pay being the most important outcome of employment. But time IS another kind of currency, so I propose we expand our concept of financial growth to include the eventual yield from investing our time in activities such as budgeting, making intentional spending decisions, and implementation of those decisions. You will not receive a paycheck for these activities, but you can convert the learned information into money once you implement the changes or investments that will result in more money to spend on something down the road or reallocate money to a current need.

Examples on the way...