Trading Time and Creative Energy With Corporate America

Three powerful ways to trade your time wisely

Life is full of energy exchanges. We trade our money, attention, and sometimes even our health and well-being for more time, more success, and more worldly possessions.

Many of us move through life in constant motion, never stopping to reflect on where that motion is taking us—if it’s helping or hindering us. If the trades that we make daily are letting us live our best lives. Or if the trades are giving us more quality time with those that we care about the most.

The trades that we make in life can take a toll on us physically, mentally, and emotionally.

And as summer blooms with its lushness and balmy weather, punctuated by rainstorms, it is never more clear that our time is limited.

And yet there is something odd about this notion of time as property.

We are asked to “give it time”.

But how do we give or take that fine-grained sand that slips through our fingers at the moment that we try to hold it? Maybe time is not so much the substance in the hand as the substance of the hand.

I recently read and saw the film adaptation of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gilbran. It’s one of those rare works that changes you immediately and gently challenges your view of time.

Gilbran’s abiding wisdom is still available to us, many decades later:

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