Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Your time is the fossil fuels of your life. You don't know how much is left and it's never coming back. So it's really important to think about who deserves this most precious, non-renewable resource.

This small reframe can shift your relationship to unreasonable asks at work, how you approach interviews, avoid burnout, and shape what you want to do with your career and in life.

⏱️⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ⏱️⏱️
00:00 Intro
00:12 Your time is a non-renewable resource
01:19 Our lives are just blips in history
02:38 Outro

👇👇 LINKS 👇👇
- Learning to say no at work: youtu.be/LiXTHO5NQQ0
- Defensive calendaring and taking control of your time: youtu.be/ai-OSEgcqxs
- Design Leadership Coaching: polaine.com/coaching
- Online Course: courses.polaine.com
- Andy's website - polaine.com
- Subscribe to Power of Ten podcast - pln.me/p10
- Subscribe to Andy’s newsletter Doctor’s Note - pln.me/nws
- Andy's YouTube channel - youtube.com/@apolaine
- Andy's online courses - courses.polaine.com
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- Andy on LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/apolaine
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