Where you spend your time can show you what your values, priorities, or habits are. They can be positives or negatives. Community service and going to church can show your values. Meal planning and exercise can show your priority on health. Your weekly screen time report can highlight your habits.

Additionally, you make time for what’s important. Time cannot be created, it comes at the trade of something else. This is how you make time.

If you want to start working out, you can trade sleeping in for waking up early and getting some exercise in.

If you desire to develop a better relationship or spend more time with your family, you trade personal time or nights binge-watching the latest show.

If you want to progress on your latest project, you need to trade unproductive or unfocused time for time better spent.

The time trades typically take something that is easy and comfortable and swap it for something difficult, tiring, or new.

But if you value it, or need it, you make the trade for it. You trade things of less value to fit the things of more value. Prove to yourself and others how important it is to you by spending your time on those things.