The Most Valuable Currency in the World (It’s NOT Money)!

Michiel Schuer
4 min readSep 2, 2022

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Have you ever wondered what the most important currency in the world is? Gold? Dollar? Bitcoin? Oil? Nope, none of those.

The answer is Time.

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Time is the most important currency in the world.

You can waste money and all those other things, but there are ways to get it back. However, if you waste time, it’s lost forever.

All that we have, all that we are and all that we become, is a result of the choices that we make during our time here on earth. Better make some damn good choices then, right?

You could look at our timeline as follows:

B — — — — — — — — — — — -C — — — — — — — — — — — D

Birth — — — — — — — — Choices — — —— — — — — Death

We are born in a certain setting, in a specific location, family, country.. that we can’t choose. As we grow up, many choices are made for us. Our parents, environment and family decide a big part of who we are and who we will become.

However, once you become self-aware and start to make your own decisions, then your life really starts. You get to make choices, and those choices will determine

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Michiel Schuer

Enthusiastic about learning new things, side-hustles, and translating my personal experiences into motivational stories. https://michielschuer.com