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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's tip is to make time-centric decisions.

It's easy to undervalue time in our choices, but since time is the ultimate limited resource,

we want to honor its value as much as possible.

Today's tip, like another this week, comes from Ashley Willen's new book, Time Smart.

Willens argues that we need to do a better job building time into our mental accounting.

Plenty of us focus more on another metric, money.

When choosing jobs, most of us focus too much on salary and prestige, easy to measure metrics, and not enough

on the value of the time we'll spend in the job, or the ways the job will allow us to shape

our time outside work, she writes.

It's not that a time-focused person isn't willing to work long hours.

It's just that this time-focused person wants to enjoy those hours.

And if she somehow winds up in work that she doesn't like so much,

she's careful to limit the time cost,

so she can enjoy her time outside of work.

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