What price are you willing to pay?

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it”

This is the interpretation of the lengthier quote by Henry D. Thoreau book: Walden or, Life in the Woods, which is Thoreau's classic account of the two years he spent living in a cabin at Walden Pond.

“If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man……and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages –
it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly…..and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, …..immediately or in the long run.

What does this mean?

It means different things to different people, but to me this means, how long and hard are you willing to work to earn money to pay for your lifestyle?

How valuable are the material things in your life and would you prefer to have more time and experience living more if you didn’t have to ‘earn’ more money, or keep earning money……?

This is why I still have a 4 year old mobile phone, a 10+yr old car, but still enjoy my morning coffee….my phone still works, my car still works but I don’t work without my morning coffee….

What would you ‘let go of’ or ‘exchange’ to have more time to live your best life?