This is a good question to think at all ages, especially when you are on the right side of life's bell-curve. What will I do with the time and effort I may have saved by becoming more productive or organized? Do I “spend these savings” and, if I do, what do I buy with them? There are many options:
- I can go on working just as much, or more, and increase my monetary earnings. I will then have more cash, but still less time to enjoy it: the typical position of most “cash-rich and time-poor” people today.
- I can keep my output (and probably my earnings) at the same level and devote the extra time to something else, whether that’s pleasure, voluntary societal activities, family time, or simply hanging out and enjoying life.
- I can “bank” my extra time by investing it in learning and health, which will certainly bring me future “interest” in more learnings, yearnings and earnings, and ofcourse contribution and enjoyment.
I believe spending personal productivity gains on life's wrong “purchases” is foolish. Without any trace of hesitation I will settle for no. 3.
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