More often than not people say it in this exact order: Time is Money. It is as though money were the most important element of the equation, suggesting that time should not be wasted only because it implies losing money. The truth is: when you’re out of time, the last thing you care about is money.
You don’t even have to be out of time. Wouldn’t you give all your money to have your health back? To recover that significant other or the time with your children, parents, or friends?
Accounting and finance have developed extremely complex, efficient, “bullet-proof” systems to measure and cultivate money. Yet, there are many valuable aspects, capacities, attitudes, and bonds that never make it to the financial statements. Ironically, those factors are the ones that make everything else make sense.
Health, time, family, love, peace are priceless; calling them assets reduces them into simple quantifiable things. However, if the comparison helps: unlike money, these assets grow in value over the years; they never depreciate.
Challenges, projects, plans are to be carried out with all our might; yet, they should never be so expensive that we surrender the most valuable assets we were granted at birth.
How about you? What is the one thing you’d give all your money to recover?
Abe Alba
Abe Alba 
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