More important than money. Value that cannot be bought, held, stopped or stretched. Vladimir S. Lavrov

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      Many people are confident that the phone and the car save their time. No – they are very serious time wasters if your goals are not directly related to calling customers or delivering goods. To be convinced of this, it is enough to count the time that you directly communicate on the phone or fiddle with the car and add to this the money that you spend on phone maintenance and car maintenance.

      Let’s say you have talked a total of 40 minutes today (one call takes on average a few minutes of time, you can make several calls a day – accordingly, you lose 20—30 minutes a day on calls, even if you don’t talk a lot) and spent on this, say, 20 rubles (do not forget to add to this the cost of the most spent time!). To return these 20 rubles, you need, say, another twenty minutes a day to spend on work. It turns out: 40 minutes of communication +20 minutes of working time to return the money spent on the conversation = 1 hour a day. It’s already about 30 hours a month! That is, it turns out that every month you waste a day or more to talk on the phone! It’s worth it?

      It’s the same with a car: let’s say that today you have been driving for 2 hours, getting to and from work, or going around the shops of the city. To these two hours, add another hour to pick up the car from the parking lot, start, wash, refuel, etc. How much time per month do you think you spend on a car? It turns out that several days! And if you add to this the cost of gasoline, oil, maintenance, tire change, parking fees, etc., how much time does it take to get that money back? Do you really need a car to spend your life on it?

      What to do with time sinks?

      If you have the opportunity to completely abandon time absorbers, give up them. Then you will free up a significant amount of free time and vitality. You will get sick less, do more, earn more and enjoy life more.

      However, if your life goals are directly related to one or another time absorber (for example, it is difficult for a merchant to do without a phone, a film critic – without a TV, a writer – without a computer, a driver – without a car, since this is their main way of earning), then try to deliberately refuse although would be from one or two time absorbers, which are not critical for your earnings. You will immediately see that you will have more time and energy to achieve your goal.

      Practice 1. Get rid of excess

      Take a piece of paper and write a list of all the time eaters that exist in your life.

      Try to calculate how much time you devote to each of them during the day. Find the most voracious eaters of your time and decide to remove them from your life for at least one day (if this does not affect your income, of course).

      To value time means to be the first in something!

      One of the most common misconceptions in the field of achieving success is the misconception that all the most valuable, tasty, expensive and necessary in life, including wealth, are received by four categories of people :

      – The cleverest

      – the most daring

      – the strongest

      – most beautiful

      In fact, all the most valuable things in life are received by the fastest – those who react faster than others to changed circumstances and take advantage of the opportunities that have opened up without wasting time. They are the ones who become the most successful and wealthy.

      Of course, the smartest, bravest, strongest and, especially, the most beautiful also have something in common. The smartest are recognized. The most daring – reverence. The strongest are respect. The most beautiful ones are attention. But real victories always go to the fastest. They are the ones who receive wealth, prosperity and success. That is why time is not only the most valuable resource, but also an important competitive advantage.

      Time is running out! Don’t miss the opportunity, take action now. Don’t expect perfect conditions. Many people miss out on great opportunities to become richer and more successful every day when:

      – sit in front of the TV (or at the computer)

      – complain about life, fate or injustice of the social system

      – waiting for an opportunity instead of acting right here and now

      If you want success – act with lightning speed, do not wait until someone else does what you could do. Remember that the first one does not always СКАЧАТЬ