As you keep growing up, different aspects take the center stage at different life stages. Once you get into adulthood, and you are past the initial days of euphoria of earning, enjoying great freedoms and even financial leeway to an extent, things start to settle down. And sometime in your late 20s or early 30s it hits you that the most important resource of all perhaps is your time rather than your money.

Along with time, and money, you also realize that on a daily basis irrespective of these two factors, what you can achieve is dependent heavily on your energy level. So we always need to keep optimizing that we are spending these three very precious and limited resources mindfully and in alignment with our values and deliberately chosen goals.

Money

Yes money is an important aspect in one’s life, and a stark lack of it can actually make it extremely difficult to lead a decent life or spend time towards self improvement. But after a certain limit, it is also shown by research how making more money does not necessarily result in a great increase in happiness. So financial stability is a basic human need, but for those who are fortunate to reach a certain level with their money reserve, it no longer controls their life completely.

Energy

We all have limited energy every given day. Though we could build good habits like exercise, eating good food, maintaining a sleep cycle to increase and sustain our energy levels, we need to remember that it is highly dependent on our age, type of job and other responsibilities which we would have. But our energy tanks can be refueled up to a certain level and count in a day and we can allocate our energy according to that.

Time

This is probably the most important resource of all, for once its spent, there is no way we can get it back. And its always being spent, whether or not you want it! But in a way it is also the greatest leveler in an otherwise highly unequal world. Hence its of paramount importance that you are extremely mindful and deliberate on how you spend your time.

Like they say, life is short, but if you do it right, living once is enough.