To Make More Time Value Your time; It Is Precious.

byAlexEvans

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4 years ago

We do not know how many grains of sand that there are in the hourglass, so it is a matter of living life to the fullest possible extent. The humanness of being a human can be the most significant sidetracks of them all.

One of the coolest things to learn in business is to make every moment count. If we do not measure time, then we are missing a huge opportunity to expand our horizons.

So true when it comes to our online endeavors, how many times, online do we set sail on a little exploration and some hours later come up empty-handed. Does time online get fragmented where it speeds up exponentially? That sense of deflation at the lack of achievement and that promise not to be so silly until the next time we fall.

Sometimes the best expression of time can be to start tapping on the keys with a rough plan in mind and see what occurs as the words fall effortlessly onto the screen like the waves breaking on the shore.

It is something that I have become acutely aware of during the lock down. Go and ask some folks that you know;

Okay, what did you do through the lock down?

I would guarantee that you get this perplexed look.

"Well, I had plans I was going to do heaps."

"Never did anything, really."

" Don't know where the time went."

The arrow in the bull's eye, "I don't know where the time went."

Time and life are a storm that we have to navigate, and it can be so easy to get lost at sea. One of the reasons we do get lost is that we do not place a value on our time and so it is easy to fritter it away or worse still let others spend our precious time for us.

I was not talking about family and loved one's time; I am talking business and creating a living time. If we do not value our time, we can squander it so efficiently.

Lockdown equals squandered time for many.

Many look at the equation from the wrong perspective. The crazy adage time is money has been dead in the water forever. The truth is that many do not value time; it is valued for us. We get a job and are paid for our time.

We are time traders.

That being the case, we need to put a value on our time. It is a perplexing thing; as soon as we value our time, it takes on a different complexion.

You sit there and say my time is worth $ 200 dollars per hour; my charge out rate on discount is $150 for my services; my time on this project will be X to the power of ten.

First thing that happens is that we say in our heads.

I can not charge that much. No way I am not worth that; I will expose my self as a fraud. It is one of those things that are outside our realms of experience. It ends up sitting on the shelf. So many undervalue their time.

You may agree or not; if we work, then we have to set the value of what we find acceptable to receive. The boss will buy your time for the least amount possible.

That is business.

If you want change put a value on your time

It is powerful; it utilizes something primal; we all have this capacity, it is one of our gifts.

Let's chock it down a peg lets say $ 50 per hour. If you look at what you are getting paid, that may be a pay rise, or it may be a very acceptable amount starting.

We are looking form an online perspective.

I can see you saying, but hey Alex, I am not making any money with my blog, or you may say hey I am not making that much with my blog the hours I put in.

"This isn't a get-rich-quick scheme."

As an example, we have 10 hours a week to invest in creating a business; Joe is working full time; he can only manage 10 hours.

10 x 50 = 500 per week.

13 weeks in a quarter

13 x 500 =6500 per quarter.

The key is to look at time as a value proposition.

It is not so much about managing time. It is about valuing time as soon as we do that the whole game takes on a different perspective.

If someone is wasting your time or worse, still you are wasting your time, it costs you money. With this concept, a clarity evolves, you can become very focused.

I can hear you saying that it is crazy that it will never work. The reality is that we want to transition from where we are to where we want to be. To do this, we need income.

As soon as something has a value proposition attached, it becomes something that we can measure and manage. Time once valued becomes precious that can be a powerful driver.

In the transition, we need to value our skill sets and perhaps redefine our course. Here in WA, we are all learning new skill sets that could help the navigation, you set a value, and you know your currency, you have a tradable commodity.

You want your blogs to be top dogs, of course, that is what we are learning. In the transition, a little help from your new or refined skills could be helpful; three that pop to mind;

Writing as a service.

Proofreading.

Website creation.

I am sure that you could add to the list?

If we use website creation, you are doing it for yourself here in WA; it is only a small shift in parameters to create a website for someone else or business.

That rule of thumb $ 50 per hour 10 hours to do a WordPress website. Who knows your market benchmark, maybe $1000 per Wordpress website. That's a pay rise.

Getting your A to B jiggy on, it can be done, and it starts with that value equation.

It is a process; how much is your time worth to you?

I have found this useful, so I thought that I would share it with you, I would be keen to know what you think. The main benefit has been that I have stopped wasting time on the things that don't matter in the greater scheme of things; that is a value add.

Thank you for reading.

Alex Evans