What Is A “Valuable” Use Of My Time

Define your terms, always.

Value is defined as the meeting point between a need and the fulfillment of that need.

What are your needs? What are mine?

To determine what is valuable to you specifically, you must first answer the above.

Personally I didn’t write down a list of activities, but rather some guiding principle.

I have a need to fulfill my purpose.

I also have a need to do things that I enjoy and that make me happy.

(Although the pursuit of happiness can never be the ultimate deciding factor, else you become a slave to your senses.)

In order to fulfill my purpose I may need to do things that I don’t enjoy but are still valuable.

For example, I have, now, fond memories from my childhood doing things like weeding the garden for countless hours or moving tons of firewood, which I didn’t always enjoy but helped build character, resilience, and grit.

Any situation can be valuable, I think the key is knowing what you need, and therefore value, and making decisions to maximize on what is most valuable.

After all, quality over quantity.

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