Time : Money : Poker

Time is not money if you don't know how to use it, but money is always time no matter how you use it!

- lauyee

 We are all born into the world living 24 hours a day,  however I had never know of any two person who doesn't share the same body (yes I know some of you are going to say Siamese twins) to use their 24 hours exactly the same. If life is a poker game (in which I think it's rather similar to a game of Texas hold 'em), we start the game with the exactly same amount of chips, but somehow some manage to play more rounds some lesser, we call it life span. Some privileged few are born under the star of great luck and often get some extremely good pocket cards, and some get normal cards with chance to get a flush, a straight and or even win out with their high card, and some poor thing just keep on getting two low number cards with no chance of getting even a straight or flush.

How you bet (in a sense use your time) directly affect your wealth, some just waste it on dumb hands trying to bluff their opponents, they won't always fail, but once they failed they meet their doomsday, some took calculated risk and play some play real tight minimizing their risk. However you play, you might get really lucky and sometimes win, but if you bet on luck, even if you might win and actually manage to convert your chips into money at the end of the game, it wouldn't be with you for long, because luck is never constant, it changes, sometimes, you folded just to find out that you are actually having the best hand and you just missed the big pot because you don't dare to take the risk, or at times, you thought you're going to lose and the turn and river just turn the tide and you end up winning. Luck is very much desired, but never solely depend on it, unless if you really is Tyche or Fortuna herself. There's no sure win strategy in the game, but there are however some formula that could increase your chance of winning, and it take great discipline to abide by the formula and end up a winner. Just like how you should use your time! There's no saying that what you do will be fruitful, however there are some formula for you to accumulate your wealth, and it take great discipline to make sure that the plan work and convert your time into money! In other words, if you doesn't have the skill to make good use of your time, it's worthless, and your time is not money!

However you constantly buy time using money! Say in Texas Hold 'em, you want to increase your chip pool, but the max buy in is 24 chips, you can always buy allies, make them lose their chips to you so you increase your chip pool. Then you skilfully use your advantage against your opponent. Look around, whatever you've bought with your money, need time to produce, and you use your money to trade for those products. That product is produced by people who need money, and trade their time for the money!

We are all born with the same amount of time per day, it's how we use it that makes us really different. In stages of life, we eventually need trade our time for money -or- to obtain the skills that brings us money. After that some might be smart enough to make their money work for them, buying time of others and use it for themselves, leveraging as those smarties may call it. You can read thousand of motivational book, self made millionaire biography, road to wealth guide book (as if it's ever a non-fiction) the underlying principles are always the same. Use your time wisely, gain knowledge, trade time for money; use your money wisely, trade money for more time. Repeat the cycle until you can stop trading your time. Of course in the course of trades keep a positive mind as luck may not always be with you.