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Pursuing uncertain projects

Pursuing uncertain projects

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Pursuing uncertain projects

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- In my time management courses, I encourage people to focus their time on activities that are most valuable. Activities that are worth the most per hour. However, what if you're engaged in an activity where you have no real idea what the value per hour is? Maybe you're working on some new innovation for your company that's never been tried before? Or perhaps you're trying to start a hobby business that might become its own career? How much time should you spend on things like that? I say that time isn't necessarily money but it behaves like money. Many of the lessons that we can learn from money also apply to time. In the example that I'm using, we're essentially gambling with time. We're investing a certain amount of time and we are uncertain of what the return on this investment will be. Now, I'm not personally a fan of gambling, nor do I participate in it, but if I were to gamble, I would not take every single…

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