Whether you’re an entrepreneur or a working mother, your time becomes one of your most valuable commodities. It can even be considered a form of currency—for example, if you’re bartering with other businesses. So if this resource is so precious, we must not waste it. And I don’t mean you shouldn’t be wasting helping others or on a creative venture. Being wasteful with your time is spending hours, days worrying or being negative.

How many times do we find ourselves overwhelmed with life and instead of focusing on one thing at a time, we throw our hands in the air and say, “forget it?” Think of all that energy you spent listening to your mind chatter to the point that it disabled you to move forward. What a waste of time! And let’s not forget the time we spent complaining to our significant other about what an awful day we had. If we only have two hours to spend with our significant other before the day is over, why spend it talking about something that already made you upset during the day?