A framework, not a pep talk.
You learned budgets, compound interest, the difference between an asset and a liability. Time got a proverb and scattered methods that few people were taught to use as a system. So the hours that matter pass by in fragments, a few minutes here, half an hour there. The book calls this time confetti. The chronic sense that your time is not enough for the demands placed on it is time poverty, and many people who have it have never heard the term.
The answer is not moving faster or doing more. It is measurement. Time is the one currency you spend without a price tag, and this book gives it the operating system money already has: a rate, a ledger, and the rules to use them.
By Dr. Mert Sahin. Chapters 2 to 15 each close with an exercise, and the appendix holds the references, key terms, and formulas.
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Once an hour has a price, the calendar argument stops being about preference and starts being about arithmetic.
Who this is for
Anyone comfortable with money yet continually short on time. Written for executives making calendar decisions worth more than they look, founders whose own hours are the company's real constraint, and anyone financially literate who wants a framework instead of another productivity hack. The operating system works for anyone, including students, early-career professionals, and retired individuals.
If you want motivation, this isn't it. If you want a system, it is.
Get the book, and start with your rate
The book is available now in paperback and on Kindle. You can also work out your own rate in about two minutes, read the full definition of the measure, or bring it to a room.
- Buy the paperback on Amazon.
- Buy the Kindle edition on Amazon.
- Calculate your Time Exchange Rate, the number the book is built on.
- Read the full definition of the Time Exchange Rate, including the four steps and a worked example.
- Book a keynote or workshop on the Time Exchange Rate, in one of four formats.
- About the author.