There are over 7 billion people in this world and I would venture to say at least half of them have an opinion on how you should spend your money.  I wonder, though, how many of them have an opinion on how you should spend your time.  Everyone gets roughly 24 hours of this commodity every day.  There are no time billionaires with more than they will ever be able to use.  There are no time accounts where you can put away some of your time for retirement or a rainy day.  But you can invest your time, in things that will save you time,  and/or compund your interest in your time.  You can also waste your time.  But wasting time is a relative term.  While many of your relatives may perceive what you are doing as superfluous, in your mind you are super charging your brain cells in preparation for your next challenge. 

One of the smartest time investments I ever made was to actively pursue doing nothing of substance for awhile.  SomeTimes, if we are wise enough, our thought to be timely expenditures are way ahead of the cosmic tumblers and the smartest thing we can do is to wait for the rest of our world to catch up.

This past weekend, Paul Newman died.  A man who spent his time here with great respect for the opportunities presented to him and a refreshing humility relative to the hours he spent in front of a camera.  I also saw a special about Albert Einstein, wherein the prevailing opinion among today’s genius’ is that Einstein “wasted the last twenty years of his life”.  But as I said above and I’m pretty sure Einstein said it first, “time is relative”.

All of these deep thoughts are presented to help me in contemplating the fate of my Facebook and MySpace accounts.