What's a lunch worth?

What would you do if one day your employer decided not to include your daily hour lunch as part of your weekly salary?

That's a full 5 hours deducted from your weekly salary, at a net loss of about 12% your weekly pay.

The question is, if you're not living paycheck to paycheck (or saddled in debt), is 5 hours of free time per week worth a 1/8 cut of your paycheck?

I think the answer is obvious: it depends on what you do with that alotted time.

You could waste it checking social media or reddit, and watching cat videos or playing Pokémon Go.

Or you could invest those hours in building an asset that reaps dividends over time (at a far greater ROI than the money it cost you to make it).

I've said this before and I'll say it again: you alone decide how much your time is worth.

If making that 12% matters to you, take it, by all means. But if you dare to think you can make double or triple next year or in 5 years buy investing in something bigger and better on an hour a day, realize no one can stop you but you.

An hour lunch is nothing. Certainly. But 300 or 3,000 can change your world, indefinitely.