The most scarce resource you will ever have is your time.
But time is too intangible. Time is a thing that humans invented to organize our lives around. So I like to think of our time in terms of heartbeats.
You can feel your heart beating. It connects you to your body, and gets you out of your head. It reminds you of the blood pumping through your veins… at varying speeds… around the clock.
If you end up living something similar to the average human lifespan, you will be afforded 2.5 billion heartbeats throughout your entire lifetime. 42 million per year. Just over 100,000 per day.
So the question becomes… how will you spend your heartbeats?
How Will You Spend Your Heartbeats?
I believe that our choices influence the direction of our lives. Everything that we do has a ripple effect in our lives.
You will always, until the day you die, have a choice as to how you spend your heartbeats.
Will you choose to spend them criticizing and resenting your partner, or taking stock of how much you love and appreciate them?
Will you stay in an uninspired city, relationship, or career path exclusively because they’re the safe choice, or will you deploy the courage to go after what you actually want?
Will you primarily fill your body with toxins, junk food, and drugs, or vegetables, water, and nutrient-dense foods?
Will you fill your mind with self-doubt, celebrity gossip, and news that profits from you living in a state of fear, or will you fill it with skills, education, love, and self-compassion?
Will you put people down, be passive aggressive, and discourage people from being their authentic selves, or will you be a loving, encouraging, kind friend to everyone that you cross paths with?
Will you pack your calendar with constant busyness, or will you allow yourself regular downtime to let your soul breathe?
Will you say yes to everything and put other people’s opinions of you over your opinion of yourself, or will you set appropriate boundaries and only do things that feel light, expansive, and joyful?
Will you talk behind your friends’ backs, or will you regularly tell everyone in your life how much you love them and why?
Will you settle for a mediocre intimate relationship that just barely manages to scrape by, or will you put in the necessary work to allow your love life to be the ripe soil for your personal growth that it yearns to be in your life?
Your heartbeats, your decisions. Nobody can tell you how to live your life but you.
My only recommendation is to make sure that you live your life in a way that lets you sink your teeth in deeply, and have the juiciness of it drip down your chin.
Live with intentionality.
Give everything that you can.
The world needs you in all of your self-actualized glory.
