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- Sep 27, 2025
ALL TIME IS INVESTED — Every Single Minute
- Dustan Woodhouse
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“I don’t have time.”
Stop.
That’s not true. You have time. We all do. The question isn’t whether you have it — it’s how are you investing it?
We talk about time like it’s a wallet full of loose change:
Spending
Saving
Wasting
Killing
Losing
Borrowing
Buying
Having
Giving
Running out of
Finding
Biding
Passing
None of this is real.
You don’t do any of those things with time.
You can only ever invest it.
That’s it.
'You Only Ever Invest Time' is the TL;DR
Right now, I’m investing mine writing this post. You’re investing yours reading it.
One of us may be getting the better ROI — and you’d better hope it’s you... I feel like it's me - I hope we have a win/win!
Years ago I made a firm decision: I’d only ever use the word 'invest' when speaking of time — mine, yours, anyone’s. Because once you see time as an investment, you start seeing the returns. Or the lack thereof.
And let’s be honest: many of us are in a mindset of spending time - as if we have a Musk pay package worth.
We do not.
I get 24hrs.
You get 24 hours.
That’s our daily deposit. No rollover. No refunds. No credit extension.
The question is: are you investing these hours into things that compound positively?
Things that return energy, health, growth, clarity?
Are you avoiding the mental junk food, the online arguments, the endless news-cycle-distraction?
This isn’t about guilt. It’s about audit.
Because your calendar is your investment portfolio, and you health (all versions of it) are daily earnings report.
And if you’re not getting the results you want, it’s not a time problem — it’s simply a misallocation, a misuse.
You can do better, you can have better outcomes.
So — what are you investing in next?
DW