Our bodies, time and minds have a bank balance. The
people around us, the projects we work on, everything we do, it all
subtracts from that balance. When you make a payment in any one area,
you have to make a withdrawal from a finite resource that you can’t
always replenish. Life
is about making transactions. And I’m not talking about treating it
like it’s some shitty business deal like Donald fucking Trump, I’m
talking about the simple fact that every choice we make is a
transaction. If
I stay up late tonight writing emails and reading The Lean Startup
after my partner falls asleep, I am making a deposit into my
productivity, into my business, and into my readers. But to do that, I’m making a withdrawal that I can’t deposit into other areas — my energy for tomorrow morning, my sleep, my patience if things go wrong over the next 24 hours.
- Medium
