Clock Cycles and Consequences
Your brain isn’t idle — everything you load has a price
Value over Cost
Have you ever placed a value on something only to find out about its hidden cost ?
To often we place a value on something without really understanding the long term cost it has on ones own mental or physical well being.
Everything in this world has a value/cost proposition associated with it, where the value of something should always incorporate the affected cost of it.
Spending that extra time at work only to later contemplate the amount of dance recitals or valuable family events that you have missed.
Impending burnout on the horizon as a result of not taking care of yourself mentally and physically.
The true meaning of value is that of which aligns with your most authentic sense of well-being and happiness, that of which ties closely with your principles, purpose and passion.
The Invisible Price Tag
Everything has a cost, even if it's not money.
Time, focus, peace, energy, mental bandwidth.
These are all hidden costs, that when compounded over time reflect the overall cost of all we do, say and feel. The invisible price tags are inescapable, ubiquitous and attached to the very fibre of our existence. Most people don't realise they're spending their lives on low return investments (doom scrolling, shallow work and status chasing) and fail to fully take ownership and responsibility of where they place their hard earned capital.
By placing a value on your very thoughts, words and actions, you can control the amount that you spend on valuable investments and thus overtime see your portfolio grow in an exponentially positive direction.
Valuation Adversity
Our apprehension to continually monitor our value/cost proposition is common place, where allot of the driving forces that determine our thoughts, actions and words are based deep within our social structure, inner fears and cultural norms.
The myth that we can have it all coupled with the fear of regret can lead to an loss of our true north with respects to our true values, where our compass gets hijacked by a magnetic resonance that pulls us in ways that we fail to become unconsciously aware of.
To stay the course and stand our ground becomes difficult with no base to rely on, with our base perpetually shifting as we lose ourselves amongst the whirlpools and hidden crevices exposed in the ocean floors of existence.
"The easy path leads to the hard life. The hard path leads to the easy life." — Jim Rohn
We are adverse to valuation judgements because it is a hard undertaking, accruing the very value/cost price that we are desperately attempting to salvage, understand and solve for.
The Worth Audit: How to Assign Value
To assign a value to an endeavor requires you to understand where your deep seeded principles, purpose and passions lie. How they define you. How you chose to be. It is no easy undertaking to evaluate ones psyche in this way, however once dialed in and in-tune with your very nature, the hard work begets seemingly easier and more meaningful outcomes.
Value Filters:
Alignment: Does this align with my principles, passion and purpose ?
Time Cost: Is there an immediate cause to assign value or alternatively can this wait ? What am I trading for this ?
Long Term Compounded Interest: Will this value judgment positively or negatively increase my overall well-being long term ?
The more adept one becomes at applying these filters (or a version of), the easier your decision making, minute by minute and day by day becomes. This eventually simply becomes just who you are moment to moment.
CPU Cycles
In the tech world, compute is a term used to decribe the number of CPU's (Computer Processing Units) that are allocated to a specific process, task or workflow. The more CPU's allocated, the more processing that can take place. The output is based, not on priority but rather on arbitrary process requests presented to the CPU's at any given time. At some point this becomes a bottleneck and thus requires more processing power over time. The more CPU's required the higher the cost.
Likewise our physiological selves can be bombarded with similar types of processing requests. Our capacity to focus on meaningful and fullfilling tasks can be dampened and held captive by tasks non-aligned to our true values.
Value filtering ensures that we keep our "Biological CPU Cycles" focused on the tasks that align with our values. This alleviates the bottleneck and re-adjusts our positive trajectory accordingly.
"Your brain, like a CPU, has limited cycles — don’t waste them on tasks that don’t serve your purpose." — Unknown
Closing Thought
Everything has a cost, take back your control of your expenditure through consciously allocating time to those things that matter most to you. Don't burn out your CPU cycles under the assumption that everything is within your reach. Sometimes letting something go, of higher cost, is an important step to achieving your own greatness.
Value yourself and those around you, align with your principles, purpose and passion and lead your best life !