The Currency of Care

<h1>Don't Waste Your Time Because Time is Money</h1><p>I assign monetary values to the conversations I have with people. I am budgeting my time as diligently as I budget my money!</p><p>0:00</p><p>Good evening and welcome to my humble podcast. I am Cocoa Griot. Just a 50 something who likes talking about life, love, and a host of other topics. Thank you for tuning in tonight, and I promise you I won't keep you long but I strive to keep you strong. There's a lot of talk these days about cryptocurrency, and I think it's fascinating. I don't have a true understanding of all that, but there is a type of currency that I do take stock of every day. I have my own currency of care. So my currency of care works like this. Some things are very low in value and I call those things, those dollar deals. They are spent very quickly. If a person is calling me to gossip about somebody else that's a $1 deal. They will get 10 minutes tops of conversation. Normally, I'm just listening in and then I can immediately find something else to do. If a person has called me to talk about problems that they have generated themselves, and they don't really want to find solutions... they just want to wallow in their problem for a little while, that is $1 Deal. Again, their currency and time is about 10 minutes. Whenever a person calls me to put me down and talk negative to me, they aren't even getting the whole dollar that is definitely a 25 cent conversation for about two minutes after they tear into me. it's over. I just refer them to my cousin . Youdun know when you hang up the phone and goes Dun dun dun dun dun dun. </p><p>1:42</p><p>I realized some time ago that if I start thinking about my time like I paid more money, I would be a much happier person. I'm not a money waster and I don't want to be a time waster either. I believe that's a large part of why I'm not really active on social media. Now don't get me wrong, I've done it in the past, but I felt like I was always wasting an inordinate amount of time. There are some great uses of