Time, Money & Energy - How Are You Spending Yours?

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I thought about what it is I really wanted to talk about today , and what popped up was time yeah , good old time , and this actually was creeping in my brain because I've been having quite a few conversations with people recently about the exchange of money , time , energy , various resources and how some people get really hung up on one .

So some people may really get hung up on money , some people really get hung up on time , but aren't all of these resources important in some way ? Money is important because money pays for things . It helps us to have homes to live in and food to eat and clean water . So money is important .

Time is also really important , and so is energy , and these are things we do not want to waste . However , it seems as though quite a few people waste them . I'm guilty of that too , of wasting time , energy and money sometimes . Now I will say proudly that I do not waste time , money or energy that much .

These days , I've learned my lessons , but back in the day , heck , yeah , I wasted a lot of time , a lot of energy and a lot of money , and it was because I didn't know any better or I didn't care , or my priorities were just not what they needed to be . There were so many reasons why I wasted time , money and energy .

However , I could have not learned my lesson and just kept wasting those resources . Today , at this age , I could still be wasting my time , my energy and my money , and so my question to you is how do you feel about that ? Are you wasting your time , your energy or your money ?

Now , I'm not talking about , when it comes to money , splurging on yourself or treating yourself to things . I really support those , okay , I support treating yourself to nice things and splurging on things and being responsible with your money . Yes , I do feel that we should also enjoy our money . And yep , I said should .

Yes , I know that's a forbidden word for a lot of people , but we can still use it . But , yeah , money is something to be spent responsibly and you can have fun with it , do whatever you want , right ? Same thing with our energy and time .

You can do whatever you want with it if you're using it responsibly or you're using it in ways that can benefit yourself , benefit those you love , benefit the world . In some way , there's a way to use these resources and if we waste them , eventually we just won't get any more of it . Right ?

If you keep wasting money , you're going to properly find yourself in situations where you're not receiving more money or the amounts of money you would like to make or receive .

If you're wasting your time , you may find yourself running out of time and fun fact , which is really not fun , but we are all running out of time in a way . Right , we are not taking this down a morbid avenue , but let's be serious here . We don't know how much time we have , so why not make the most of it ? Right . This isn't to be doom and gloom .

This is to give you some perspective on your time . We do not have time to waste . Whether you have 10 years left to live , 50 years left to live more , less , who knows but why waste a second of it in ways that don't feel good ? And that's not to say that you're going to have days that aren't the best .

We're human , we're living life , so we're going to have good times , not so good times . We're going to have love , joy , sadness , disappointment . We're going to have all of it . I'm talking about when you are intentionally wasting your time and energy and money , wasting them in ways that you know are not good for you .

Wasting your energy doing things that is just bad or is not healthy or is not loving and kind . Wasting your energy on people who are not kind to you . Wasting your time doing things that you are dreading .

You have responsibility on where you put your time , your energy and your money and , yes , there are going to be times when you put your time , money and energy in places that you may not really want to , but maybe you have to for some reason . There may be times you have to show up for someone . There may be times you have to help someone out financially .

There may be times you have to give energy in an area that you may not really want to , but it's a necessity . Okay , that's different , but I'm going to encourage you to take inventory of where you are spending your time , your money and your energy Right now . Think back over the last 24 hours . What did you do ?

What did you do with your time , your money and your energy ? And then think back over the last week , if you really want to get deep into it . Think over the last month , the last year .

If you find yourself saying quite often that , man , time is just going by so fast , I don't even know what I'm doing with myself , that's a big old indicator that maybe you're not putting your time and energy into the things you really want to do .

I'm going to encourage you to really pay attention over the next few days Let me give a number Over the next three days . Really pay attention to where you are putting your time , your money and your energy .

Really pay attention to this and ask yourself are you putting your time , your energy and your money into things , people , places , experiences that really bring you some joy , some peace , some love , some compassion , some good stuff , or do you find yourself spending majority of your time , energy and money in things , people , places , experiences that do not light you

up ? Again , you heard me say the majority . Where are you spending the majority of these resources ? Take some time to really think about this and pay attention . Moving forward , I want to actually keep this pretty quick , this episode , because we really don't have to spend that much time on it .

Even though I could keep going , I want to keep this one pretty short because I would love for you to just go ahead and get started on where you're putting your time , money and energy and figuring that out for yourself . I also want to encourage you to do something fun .

This is inspired by Maya Angelou , who stated and I'm not quoting her word for word , but she did state at one point that it is okay to have a day , to have some time where you don't have plans , you don't have goals , you don't have expectations . You just be a part of the day .

Maybe you've heard me talk about this before on a previous episode , or if you and I have conversations , you may have heard me talk about this , or if you really know me , you know that I do this where I have unplugged days . The unplugged days are something I cherish .

I cherish them so much now because back in the day and I'm saying back in the day like I'm 90 years old , but back in the day I did not give myself time to just be . It was always go , go , go , hustle , hustle , hustle , grind , grind , grind . And I am definitely not part of that type of living any longer .

But I remember being in that rat race mentally , emotionally , physically , financially and just always on the go and never gave myself time to just be and just sit and just give myself myself . And now I truly am intentional about where I put my time , my energy and my money and especially my time right .

My time and energy , they're so important because those are things we cannot get back . Money comes and goes right . It can always get more money . Money is there for us At your time . You cannot get time back and , if we think about it , if we only get so much energy in a day , once that energy is used up in that day , you don't get it back .

You have to replenish your energy . Yes , but I have been really good about taking some unplugged time and it looks different each time I do it . Sometimes it's for a full day , sometimes it's for a few days at a time .

I've done unplugged weeks and during those times I'm either unplugging from social media or electronics in general , so my phone , television , all of it . There are times when I'm just taking the day as it comes , sometimes I'm unplugged from people , sometimes I'm just unplugged from doing it . Really just depends on what I feel I need during that time period .

So the last thing I'm going to encourage you all to do on this episode is to schedule an unplugged day . If you are listening to this on the day that it airs , it is March 25th , 2024 .

Now , if you're listening to this afterwards , that's okay , but I'm going to encourage you , if you're listening to this in March , or even if you're listening to this in May or another year , it doesn't matter Plan an unplugged day within the next 30 days from listening to this episode .

I'm encouraging you to do this for yourself and it can look and feel like whatever it is you want it to look and feel like .

So , if this means you're taking an unplugged day to unplug from social media or from television , or from work , or from people or from planning , right If you just have a day where you say I'm not planning anything , I'm just going to wake up and see what happens , whatever you want to do . That's the fun part of this .

And if you're thinking to yourself , well , denise , I have little kids at home , or I have lots of responsibilities , I hear you . That does not mean you cannot plan an unplugged day . Whether you have one child or 15 kids at home , you can still plan something for yourself .

And if one day feels too big , then say I'm going to have an unplugged afternoon , and again , you get to cater this in the way that benefits you the most and your lifestyle . So no excuses . Again , we only have so much time and energy . So be intentional about where you're putting it .

And , as always , if you would love to explore digging more into self-friendship for yourself , healing those inner wounds that has been keeping you plagued to an unhappy and unfulfilled life , or you're looking for some mindset shifting to help you move forward in your life , I would love to invite you to get on a complimentary 30-minute love chat with me , and you can

do this by going on my website , denisemarchnet , or you can check in the show notes and there's a link for you there to schedule that call . Thank you so much for listening . Thank you for taking all of this in the way that feels best for you , and I am cheering for you to have the best unplugged day ever .

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