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Designer watches, bags, and cars \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is this true luxury?<\/p>\n
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No. These are just false luxuries.<\/p>\n
The only real luxury is time.<\/p>\n
The only real luxury is freedom.<\/p>\n
The only real luxury is your attention.<\/p>\n
Where do you devote your time, attention, and energy? Do you have freedom over your time, and what you decide to do and what not<\/em> to do?<\/p>\n Most of us falsely think that luxury is having all this expensive stuff. But the problem is that owning all this fancy stuff makes us more of a slave to fortune. We need to get higher-paying jobs (which is often work we hate), in order to make more money, to buy more money. The higher up we climb in society, the more we need to consume, to keep up a certain \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lifestyle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The richer people we socialize with, the poorer we become. And the more miserable we are.<\/p>\n Are you trading your money for more time? Or are you trading your time for more money?<\/p>\n I feel the worst<\/em> trade-off we can make in life is trading our time for more money.<\/p>\n Time is the ultimate non-renewable resource.<\/p>\n If you lose $100, you can always earn another $100.<\/p>\n If you lose a year of your life, you can never \u00e2\u20ac\u0153add\u00e2\u20ac\u009d another year to your life.<\/p>\n Time is like a smartphone (without a charger). You start off the day with 100% charge, and as you use your apps, spend your time and day, you lose charge. And at the end of your day, you might only have 10% left. And you start to panic, and you stop wasting your smartphone battery on superfluous activities.<\/p>\n This analogy pertains to life. Except we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a charger.<\/p>\n If you knew that you only had 10% charge left in your life, what would you stop<\/em> doing in life, and what would you start<\/em> doing?<\/p>\n If I only knew that I had 10% charge left on my life, this is what I would stop doing:<\/p>\n Of course this is just me. This will be different for you.<\/p>\n Life doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a charger. Never forget that.<\/p>\n Always,A simple question<\/h2>\n
The worst trade in life<\/h2>\n
Your life as a smartphone battery<\/h2>\n
What isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t important in your life?<\/h2>\n
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\nEric<\/p>\n