#4 – What are You Trading Your Time for?

The art of using time appropriately.  In this episode Marcus discusses how we trade time for money generating activities, relationships and self.  Affirmation: I am a master of my schedule! TRANSCRIPT Welcome to The Whole Enchilada today. Really excited about the topic of conversation today which is time, not necessarily just time as it shows up on a calendar, specifically the art of using time appropriately. Now I think this is something that’s an ongoing conversation of how to time block, which what boards in your calendar, am I wasting time, can I multitask what was on your calendar first. There’s thousands of books put together on how to properly use your time, and be more productive. And it’s interesting. This last week, around a week and a half ago, my wife and I were on a walk, discussing several things and one of the things that came up in topic was specifically how we want to use our time differently this coming year. And if you were able to listen to the last episode of the whole enchilada we talked about inspecting the reality is one of the things that we want to trade, our time or use our time differently in 2021, it starts with the inspection of how we use our time in the given year, in what ways did we use our time appropriately the yielded of the results we were looking for, as opposed to where did we not spend our time appropriately purposely or unpurposely, be what were those times sucks that sucked as in and by the time we pulled our face on the screen we realized it was four hours later when we intended to be there for four minutes, which I know you’re laughing right now because that’s happened to me, it’s happened to you. We’ve all fall victim to that dreaded screen time. So today we’re gonna talk about a couple things, I want to share with you kind of what we determined in that conversation, as we were walking along the beautiful beaches of Maui, which is a great backdrop for these types of conversations of reflection and thought. We thought a lot about specifically how we spend time. And I think that spending time may be the wrong terminology, terminology is actually trading time. Spending time was just that we have a certain amount that we’re able to spend on something where I would suggest that instead of spending time, we’re trading time for something in return. Think about the, it’s probably been happening much longer, thinking about the early 1800s of all the trading posts that were going on in the US, as people were migrating from east to west, particularly these fur traders learned that they can go out, you know these beaver pelts come back and trade those beaver pelts for other things that either would help them build additional wealth or things they needed. Other things were traded in those training posts as well, either on a small scale scale or big scale. But one of the things is that these people learned using the fur traders as an example is it probably started with the idea of just getting first for myself anyway. If I get a few extra of beaver pelts, I’ll be able to trade those for someone that has something that I need, because I have in excess of what I need.  In over time  they learned that that, well, if, if I’m able to trade for other things that I need, what am I just got really really good at this, and got a surplus of beaver pelts well beyond what I would need to be able to trade in excess of what what my current needs are and start building additional wealth. Well, the idea of trading time. If we don’t have the ability to increase the amount of time that any of us have. We’ve only got 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. But that doesn’t really limit us to increase, how to trade, time for the things that are most important to us because we thought about as we thought about this and really fleshed it out a little bit we identified that generally speaking...