I've tried actively thinking in terms of time-is-money before. It helps when you're in analysis paralysis, to force yourself to just make snap decisions and do

I've tried actively thinking in terms of time-is-money before. It helps when you're in analysis paralysis, to force yourself to just make snap decisions and do impulse buys every once in a while (which often end up being the decisions I'm most happy with). It doesn't help at all in just about any other case. People have a limited amount of mental energy to spend each day. "While I'm wasting my time doing X I could have actually been doing the more productive Y" is usually a lie.