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When to Spend Your Time Versus When to Spend Your Money

Work-life balance is about managing the way you use both.
Source: Illustration Š David Schwen

"Time is money, and money is time." That's the central lesson of Your Money or Your Life, the personal-finance classic by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin. "Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for," they write.

The authors argue that because you spend time in order to earn money, you're also spending time

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