You bring up some good points about value.

Just as you did when you wrote How Do You Value? on your blog, we have to define what we mean by value and valuable.

Does something have to help us earn money to be valuable?

Does it have to make a real difference in our lives to be valuable?

Is there value in something if it makes us stop and think about it for a few minutes?

I found it valuable to be reminded to go back to bed for awhile when I didn’t feel like working. I got some rest and accomplished a lot more the rest of the day.

It didn’t help me earn any money that I know of and it didn’t change my life, but I still feel that it was valuable.

If you learn something today and only make use of it a month from now, for example, is it still valuable? I would say, yes.

All the best,

JD

For instance, I obviously learn a lot of stuff everyday. I’m an information junkie, of sorts, so I read a lot of stuff and retain a lot of stuff. I may forget why I went into the kitchen, but stuff I read, I’m pretty good on.

However, how valuable is much of what I read? If I can remember enough to refer to it in a blog post, was that valuable? If I didn’t learn anything that will ultimately help my life, or help me make money, was that valuable?

I think for someone like me, who does accumulate so much information, that if I can’t apply any of it to my life, then it’s not really valuable, it’s just information. Even if I can use it in a blog post, not every blog post affects my life one way or another. I may be seeing it wrong, but that’s where my mind is at the present time.
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