Money is not the currency of life—energy is.
The greater your energy levels, the more living you get to “buy.”
The lower your energy levels, the less you’ll be able to afford before crashing and disassociating from life altogether.
One of the unique modern day dilemmas we face is that screens can stimulate us awake for extended periods of time even though we’re exhausted and crave sleep.
I’ve been experiencing this first hand.
I’ll be absolutely exhausted at the end of a long day, crash on the couch, and stay up WAY past my normal bed time watching a show or YouTube series simply because the stimulant of the screen distracts me from noticing and acting on my exhaustion.
…Which causes me to borrow energy from the next day (because I don’t get a full and proper sleep), which leads to less life I’ll be able to “buy,” which hopefully doesn’t lead to more screen time but likely will, which perpetuates the problem.
If you want to get more out of life, don’t obsess over hoarding money, obsess over maximizing your energy levels each and every day.
We buy life in energy we can bring to present moments—not in money we’re going to spend “one day.”
P.s. Here’s the best of what I posted to MoveMe Quotes last week.