Earnings & Value

What do you optimize for everyday, over time? Are you earning mostly money, and forgetting to invest in and earn on other dimensions? Very often, those add up to the important bits that define the quality of your life, the quality of your experience on this planet? What’s in the bank?

If you don’t consciously think about it, or even track it if you’re the type, you risk doing too much on some dimensions and too little on the others. Any part of that bank going too low will hurt at some point of time. Or too high — there’s always a tradeoff implicit in there.

The goals, of course, are for you to decide and each of us will come up with things that a as specific or broad as we care about. But life is about the diversity of things we do and chase, the investments we make, the relationships we build, not just the money we earn.

If you want to play around with this and see/track what you have been investing in, and what your own bank looks like, feel free to copy this over and play around :

(Of course, it’s not about the data/tracker, but internalizing a philosophy and refocusing on all the various things that actually matter to you, not always in the immediate sense).

And remember, reducing 20 minutes from doom-scrolling or other screen time could buy you the time to read a few pages, or do a few stretches. There’s always opportunity to make better tradeoffs….