Time Smart

 

INTRODUCTION

the art and science of being time smart

Time and money. They share a lot in common: both are measurable, and both are scarce. Both are what most of us would say are the most valuable things we can have. We want more time and we want more money, and we work to get them.

But as young adults, we learn quickly that for all their similarities, time and money are set against each other, and it seems to stay that way for the rest of our working lives. It’s difficult to gain as much of both as we want. Mostly, we’re choosing between them, making trade-offs. The old aphorism—if you have the money you don’t have the time, and if you have the time you don’t have the money—seems true. Over and over we find ourselves choosing between time ...