I've been asked in the past how I've managed to bring out quite decent contents or manage to stay relevant, stay in stride or manage to stay in the limelight while having little time to engage with my online activities, and sincerely I've found no answer to this myself. Truth is, I believe that "true wealth equals to time given".
I somehow believe that planning revolves around money, and money is gotten from utilizing time rather well. So time utilized rather properly is certain to yield dividends. I have been recently talking with a friend @joetunex and I found myself always talking about money or the opportunity to make money, then it began to hit me. I have compartmentalized myself to always utilizing my time to knowingly or inadvertently talking about the diverse prospects of making money.
When it comes to making money online, hive isn't my first rodeo and since 2014 I've been down this road, a lot of people have complained about not having the drive or passion to make money and this is majorly because they complain of having real-time commitment and cannot afford to spend time online.
But fast-forward to 2021 everyone wants to leave real-time for online, they want to opt out of the real world into things like play2earn. For someone living in a country as Nigeria, I've found out a long time ago that people are being cheated of their time. Some people work 12 hours and only earn like 2$, spend about 6 hours in traffic, take 2 hours to attend to miscellaneous and have only 4 hours to actually sleep.
This is a phenomenon that most people do not actually notice. The fact that they're in jobs is enough for them, they do not want to leave their comfort zone or spot the importance of time. Truth is, being ill for example takes away time that can be utilized for something else, and I'm not actually saying being ill is what we can control.
All I'm saying is that sometimes people are responsible for what actually takes their time and eventually makes them not have enough time. In 2017, I made the decision to never work again in a firm that would take up to 3 hours of my time on a daily basis, this is because I feel that the ultimate thing for me is to always create time to be fully innovative, and I cannot do that working in someone's company.
This might seem rather absurd, but then I've discovered it to always work for me. Some people believe that they being employed will take away poverty, but then this isn't true, what eventually keeps people in poverty is working for someone and achieving the dreams of that person while earning peanuts in the process.
I do not have anything against being employed and working 12-hours in a day. But does that time justify the means? Does the effort totally equal the reward? These are questions that would eventually foster change, the truth is, not everyone will ask this question and I wouldn't even be surprised. Unemployment is a motivation that is used to put people in unnecessary slavery, all in the name of people in jobs and the surprising thing is, a lot of people chose to be in their comfort zone because it brings certainty.
However, having the certainty of time is of course very important than having the certainty of being in a job that takes more than 60% of the time of a person. Now I left that job in 2017 not thinking of how unemployed I would be but thinking about the time I'll have at hand to be personally innovative which will eventually lead to me having money to take care of my needs as well as have time.
So time is an illusion but, ironically, we ourselves need to create it individually to suit our purposes. Priorities are what makes us create time, and this is how I often manage to create time for myself. Setting the right priority on top of my scale of preference.
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My name is @Josediccus, a young Nigerian entrepreneur who is a Vlogger, A Psychologist, Poet, Sports Writer/Analyst & Personal Finance Coach. I'm using my contents as a process to create shared meaning as well as create expressions through which people on/off hive can relate. I believe content is a process to be enjoyed and relished and I'm up for any collaborations in my field stated above. Cheers
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