People often measure their time on the scale of their salaried or hourly pay. In fact, one hour of focused effort might produce many times billable payroll hours.

Commissioned workers often see this exponential relationship, but hourly and salaried workers sometimes miss this potential. The fact is that an hour spent efficiently today might not produce any more income to you than your scale, but that hour spent productively may be the key to future pay raises, promotions or may open the door to now unseen opportunities.

The most valuable commodity any of us has is time. Sometimes a small investment that makes our time more efficient and effective pays off in multiples; that same time spent to save a dollar might be wasted.