{"id":8166,"date":"2026-01-07T08:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:35:21","slug":"value-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/07\/value-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Value"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After crossing 40, the major learning of life has been \u201cwhat I don\u2019t want.\u201d<br>The simple answer to that is people or environments that make you unhappy and drain your energy. Many of my friends ask me if I am rich enough to have that choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My short answer to this has been: In the end, it comes down to your value system. I would prefer losing a team member, customer, or acquaintance than living constantly in stress and ending up paying a cardiologist for angioplasty or a hair transplant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our defined, allocated time on this planet is limited. It is on us to decide how to use it. Short-term profit leading to long-term suffering should not be an option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After crossing 40, the major learning of life has been \u201cwhat I don\u2019t want.\u201dThe simple answer to that is people or environments that make you unhappy and drain your energy. Many of my friends ask me if I am rich enough to have that choice. My short answer to this has been: In the end, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/07\/value-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Value&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[1162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8167,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166\/revisions\/8167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}