We sometimes talk about money as though there is nothing else that matters but there are far more important things than money. There is no limit on the amount of money in the world. Banks conjure up more all the time and we have seen the downside to that in recent months but they can produce more as and when they want to.
Some things are more real and more limited. There is only so much oil in the world and one day there will be no more gold to dig out of the ground but for now there is enough to go around.
There is one very valuable resource with a very limited availablity – Time. Time may go on for ever but your time is limited. You have just 86,400 seconds every day and nobody knows how many days you or I have. Your time is the most valuable commodity avaialable in the world today. Certainly the most valuable commodity in the world as we know it. So, are you making the best use of it? Are you investing your time wisely?

The richest billionaire has just 86,400 seconds every day as has the poorest man on the planet. We are all equal when it comes to time but some make more efficient use of it than others. You can spend some time today which may save you wasting time tomorrow or you can buy the time of somebody else.

Most of us work to earn the money we need to live. We need the money so we spend our limited time travelling to work, working for hours and then travelling home again. We spend time shopping for food and other goods and spend time planning for the future but are we making the best use of our time?
Only you can know the answer to that question. If you think that working eight hours a day so you can buy new tv to watch reality shows on it is worthwhile then so be it. Only you can be the judge of that. Take some time, a few more of those precious seconds, and think about it.

There is a famous saying that, ‘Nobody lays on their deathbed wishing they had spent more time in the office.’ Will anybody wish they had watched more reality tv shows or spent more time shopping?

We all have different interests in life. We all see things differently and our priorities in life are different but the one thing we share is a limited amount of time each day. However much money you have, no matter how many toys and gadgets you possess you have the same 86,400 seconds every day. Are you making good use of every one of them? You will never get a single one of those seconds back and once they are gone, they are really gone.
Make every second of your life a second that was worthwhile and invest your time in what really matters to you.

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Helping others is a clear demonstration of what makes humans, human. Supporting the less well off and helping others to improve their lives are fine ambitions and worthy things to invest you time and your energy towards. Most of us contibute to good causes in some way or another but few can match. Hal Taussig is 83 years old and has been giving it away all his life and his dedication and enthusiasm for supporting those less well off than himself is remarkable.

He owns a company but gives all of his salary to another cause. He lives frugaly and doesn’t believe in wasting money on unimportant things. He is an example to us all. Perhaps a little too extreme for most but he shows what is possible. You can read more about him here… About Hal Taussig

Money Magic: Seven Simple Steps to True Financial Freedom (Quick Reads)

Residents of Wales who have any reason to ever visit a hospital will be delighted to hear the news that they are to be able to park for free at all NHS hospitals by 2011. In a demonstration that smaller and more modern government listens to the electorate and responds to their feelings it shows up the westminster government for what it is. A self centred, uncaring bunch of self seeking career politicians who are more concerned with promotion within government than they are with the people who elected them.
Disgust at hospital car parking charges is widespread. There are very few people who support them. Government policies have led to bigger hospitals ever further away from the patients they are supposed to serve. It may be efficient but then the ultimate in efficiency would be to have one big hospital in the middle of England but that would please nobody except the accountants who seem to run public services these days.
Scotland has proposed charging a maximum daily charge of about £3. It is not a perfect solution but at least it prevents hospitals or their outsourced parking supervision companies from ripping people off. It has been argued that any profits from parking can go towards additional treatments at the hospitals. This would also be true if they charged for bed rental while people are in hospital, charges for use of bedpans and maybe even extra charges if you would like neat stiting up after an operation. In other words, it is a ridiculous claim.
People do not go to hospital for fun. It is not an entertainment complex. Of course if it were then parking would be free because businesses know that people prefer not having to pay extra charges. Hospital parking charges make people very angry and it hardly helps a persons health prospects if they have additional financial worries caused by the hospitals parking charges policy.
It’s about time the Westminster government started listening to peoples concerns and stopped worrying about promoting all their great new ideas for making themselves famous. We have had enough laws, rules and regulations brought in, in recent years to last for many generations before we can ever begin to understand what has been enacted, supposedly in our name and for our benefit. When will they start to actually listen to what people thing and care about? It feels unlikely they ever will but they could make a start by removing hospital parking charges straight away.

Money Magic: Seven Simple Steps to True Financial Freedom (Quick Reads)