you are damn right about living life the way it has to be. whatever be the reasons, everyone has the concerns for money in their lives. But, they should not overturn their reasons for living

I just wrote a post on my blog yesterday about being in the moment. It’s about Prince. No, really.

Life has value. Money is a false placeholder for societally determined “value”. That value is really the externalization of Life, not Life itself. Work, product, service, things flattened and commodified by placing “value” on them exploits and diminishes the real Life that went into their creation.

chartreuse just wrote a great post about transparency that goes hand in hand with this, and with your wonderful guest post on Zen Habits you have linked to here at the bottom.

Beautiful, inpsirational post, Chris.

Peace.

I just wrote a post about being in the moment too:

http://vinylart.blogspot.com/2008/10/do-be-do-be-do-ec.html

Life has value. Money is a false placeholder for societally determined “value”. With money as the primary focus, people are chasing the wrong thing.

Beautiful inspirational post, Chris.

Peace.

Nice article. It seems quite commonplace in modern day society to put on hold our desires, to offer up so freely a commodity of immeasurable value, in exchange for something as worthless as money. Trading their lives for a tomorrow that may never come.

I do think your condemnation of time management books is off the mark, however. Unless those books are trying to explain how to slow down or speed up time which isn’t possible (or at least we don’t understand the physics enough to pull it off) it does not really apply to what you were saying. Those books are most likely just trying to allow people to manage themselves. Some people are not good at this and lose a lot of time because of this. As you said once time is gone you cannot get it back.

Some people need help in managing what they do with their time (time management) to accomplish things they want to do.

Maybe those books are helpful to them, maybe their not, but they are out their precisely because time does march on and you can lose time.

Time can equal money. I just depends on what is important to you, and how you spend your time.

If you spend it doing things like helping others and not necessarily to gain for yourself, then some people might view it as money lost.

That is their point of view and you hold yours that there is more to be gained with that time. I think yours is the more righteous point of view and more power to you.

@Hayden,

Yes, that does come from Steven Covey – here is the full quote:

“The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals and activities – what we do with and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction – what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.

“The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass – when what we do doesn’t contribute to what is most important in our lives. The key is not ‘managing time’ but rather managing ourselves.”