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Are You Spending Your Fortune Wisely?
Are You Spending Your Fortune Wisely?
If You're 47 or Younger, You're a Time Billionaire.
If You're 47 or Younger, You're a Time Billionaire.
What's your net worth?
What's your net worth?
It’s a question our society is obsessed with. We celebrate the entrepreneurs who build nine-figure companies, the athletes who sign massive contracts, and the investors who crack the code of the market. We track their wealth, read their biographies, and aspire to their level of financial success.
But what if I told you there's a different, more profound kind of wealth? What if I told you that if you're young enough, you're already a billionaire—and you might be squandering your fortune without even realizing it.
This isn't about money. It's about time.
The Mind-Bending Math of a "Time Billionaire"
Let's start with a simple, staggering fact:
1 billion seconds≈31.7 years
Take a moment to let that sink in. One billion seconds is nearly thirty-two years.
The average human life expectancy is about 79 years. If you do the math (79 years−31.7 years), you arrive at the age of 47.3.
This means if you are 47 years old or younger, you are a Time Billionaire. You likely have one billion or more seconds left to live. If you're 20, you're a multi-time billionaire, sitting on a treasure chest of over two billion seconds.
And yet, almost nobody thinks this way. Why? Because our culture has trained us to fixate on the dollar billionaire while completely undervaluing the time billionaire. This is a deeply flawed perspective.
The Ultimate Test: Time vs. Money
Let me propose a scenario. Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest individuals in history, offers you his entire fortune. Every stock, every dollar, every company. The catch? You have to trade lives with him, meaning you also take on his age (he's in his 90s).
Would you take the deal?
No rational young person would. You would be trading your most valuable asset—your vast reserve of time—for an asset you can't even spend. This simple thought experiment proves an undeniable truth.
Time Billionaire > Dollar Billionaire
Time is the only truly finite resource. You can always make more money, but you can never, ever get back a second you've spent. It is the one great equalizer; every single person on Earth gets the same 24 hours each day. You can't buy more. It's the only currency that, once gone, is gone forever.
The Sobering Audit: Where Does Our Time Actually Go?
So, you're a time billionaire. You're rich. But where is your fortune being spent? When we break down an average 79-year lifespan, the numbers are shocking.
On average, we spend our time on:
Sleeping: 26 years
Trying to fall asleep: 7 years
Working: 13 years
Watching TV & on our phones: 8.3 years (this number will only increase a lot more going forward)
Eating & Drinking: 4.5 years
Chores: 4.3 years
Commuting: 3 years
Social Media: 3 years
Grooming: 1.8 years
Exercise: 1.3 years
Let’s add that up. That's 72.2 years accounted for. Out of a 79-year life, that leaves us with just 6.8 years of truly free time.
That’s it. A mere 8.6% of our entire lives.
What falls into this precious sliver of time? Everything that makes life truly worth living.
Building deep relationships with friends and family.
Reading books that change your perspective.
Falling in love.
Traveling and seeing the world.
Giving back to your community.
Pursuing hobbies that light you up.
Learning a new skill for the pure joy of it.
Now, I want you to ask yourself two very serious questions:
How much of your 6.8 years have you already used up?
What would you do differently if you knew that number was cut in half?
Stop the Time Pass: How to Reclaim Your Fortune
The realization that our free time is so scarce shouldn't be depressing; it should be a call to arms. It's a wake-up call to stop the "time pass"—the mindless scrolling, the passive consumption, the activities we do just to kill time, forgetting that we are killing a piece of ourselves in the process.
The solution isn't just to cram more into your 6.8 years. The real strategy is to optimize the other buckets.
Work (13 years): Don't just trade your time for a paycheck. Find purpose in what you do. Can you align your work with your values? Can you develop skills that make you feel alive? If your job is draining the life out of you, you aren't just losing 8 hours a day; you're poisoning the other 16. Work with intention.
Commuting & Chores (7.3 years): This is over 7 years of your life. Don't let it be dead time. Turn your car into a university with audiobooks and podcasts. Use your chores as a time for mindfulness or to listen to music that inspires you. Reclaim this time.
TV & Social Media (11.3 years): This is the single biggest opportunity. Are you using this time to genuinely connect and relax, or is it a mindless escape? Be ruthless here. Set timers. Delete apps. Trade one hour of scrolling for one hour of reading or talking with a loved one. This single change could double your effective "free time."
Exercise (1.3 years): Notice how low this number is. This is the highest-leverage investment you can make. Investing a little more time here pays you back tenfold in energy, health, and mental clarity, improving the quality of all your other seconds.
Your Seconds Are Ticking
You are a time billionaire. Your wealth isn't sitting in a bank account; it's ticking away, second by second. Unlike money, you can't invest it to make it grow. You can only choose how you spend it.
Stop seeing time as an infinite resource and start seeing it as your most treasured possession. Audit your seconds like a hawk. Spend them on things that compound into a life of meaning, connection, and joy.
The clock is ticking. You are the richest person you know. It's time to start acting like it.
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