The most USEFUL resource

If time is the most valuable resource, than discernment is the most useful one. While time makes things possible, discernment makes things meaningful. When you lack the discernment to assign appropriate value—to truth, to people, to time; you may end up frustrated and anxious, or worrying about something small while there is a fire that needs to be put out. 

Do you have a job? Own a tv or smart phone? Do you like sports? How do YOU reconcile wasted resources like time or money? 

You're spending time (the irreplaceable resource) at a job that doesn't pay you what your worth or what your time is worth, and then you spend that money on something like a car, which is a financial liability and the joy only lasts while the car smells new. So you trade your time that is irreplaceable, for a limited resource like money to buy a liability like a car, which shows no care or understanding of value. 

Or how about a TV? or a smart phone? or a console? What are the tag prices on those? $500? $1K? More if you want a high end TV. Have you considered the price tag isn't just a price tag, it's the price to spend more time on entertainment, for the sake of entertainment. For example, you buy a tv that costs $1k, and the average person watches 2-3 hours of tv per day (only talking about tv to keep it simple) so that's 14-21 hours. Now multiply that by whatever your hourly rate is, say $20/hr, that's about $40/ day to watch TV or $280 a week if you only watch 2 hours a day. So your TV cost $280 / week + the price of purchase.

The crazy part is when we do watch TV, some of us sports fans will watch athletes who are already rich play basketball or football. We waste more of that precious time watching millionaires run up and down a court, people who are already living the life they want. We spend time looking at people's life on Instagram or clocking in senselessly that we don't consider the alternative of what life could be because we are too broke to dream. 

Are we 'broke' because we waste our money or because we don't understand our choices?

So you go to work but you feel unfulfilled because you're stuck living a life you don't want but it pays the bills. Meanwhile, you're loosing time, energy and hope that life could change because you keep entertaining the wrong habits and vices. Imagine if you could feel confidence with every step in life, not because you have disciplined yourself but because you have honorable conviction. You're caught between the life you don't want to live and the live you don't know how to fight for and something has to give. 

I don't want to sound pretentious, I want to offer solutions - the truth is, I have been there too. It took me some time to recognize that my indiscrimination wasn't the root cause and I gotta be honest, IT PISSES ME OFF. It makes me mad to realize how much I can know the difference between right and wrong and still act stubborn. It isn't wisdom if you know better and don't apply that knowledge. 

I believe people do better when they know better and if what I described above resonates with your experience, then you don't just struggle with indiscrimination the root cause of this is a lack of honor and it will distort how you relate to people, principles, and priorities if not corrected. So how do you make better choices to get different outcomes? You improve by making intentional, principle-centered choices that lead to meaningful results.