{"id":2916,"date":"2007-06-03T22:05:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T22:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2007-06-03T22:05:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T22:05:41","slug":"time_is_all_we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2916","title":{"rendered":"Time is All We Have: 3 Ways to Increase Return on Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/time-is-all-we-have-3-ways-to-increase-return-on-investment\/\">John Wesley<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.<br \/>\n&#8211; Benjamin Franklin<br \/>\nReturn on investment (ROI) is a term you hear frequently, usually in relation to business and finance. The goal (obviously) is to maximize return on the money you invest. The implications of this concept go much deeper when you start to think of time as your primary investment rather than money. Everything you do is an investment of time. When you watch television, you\u2019re making an investment in entertainment. If you watch a show that sucks, you\u2019ve made a bad investment and receive a poor return for your time.<br \/>\nIn many ways time is more valuable than money. You\u2019ll always have the opportunity to make more money, but once time has been spent it\u2019s gone forever. When you think of time as a commodity, and all of your actions as investments, it changes the way you approach every day decisions.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wesley: Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. &#8211; Benjamin Franklin Return on investment (ROI) is a term you hear frequently, usually in relation to business and finance. The goal (obviously) is to maximize return on the money you invest. The implications of this concept go much deeper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}