Stop Spending Time — Start Redeeming It

Why 2026 Needs to Be the Year You Take Back Your Hours, Your Focus, and Your Life

Time is the one resource every woman claims she doesn’t have enough of…
yet wastes more freely than anything else she owns.

And before you feel attacked — I was that woman, too.

In my book Rediscover Yourself. Redefine Your Life., I talk about how most people are not actually out of time… they’re simply unaware of where their time is going. They’re “spending” their hours the same way people spend money when they have no budget:

Mindlessly.
Emotionally.
Reactively.

And then at the end of every day? They ask,
“Where did all my time go?”

But here’s the truth you already know deep down:

Time doesn’t disappear.
It gets spent, invested, or wasted.
And you get to choose which one you’re doing.

**1. Time Spent Is Time Gone.

Time Redeemed Is Time Multiplied.**

In the book, I break down the difference between spending time and redeeming time:

Spending time looks like:

• Constant busyness without progress

• Being available to everyone but present to no one

• Scrolling “to unwind,” but feeling worse afterward

• Living on autopilot

• Saying “yes” out of guilt, not purpose

• Reacting, not leading

Spending time drains you.

It empties your hours and leaves nothing behind but stress, resentment, and unfinished dreams.

Redeeming time, though?

That’s where everything changes.

Redeeming time means taking back ownership.
It means being a steward of your hours instead of a victim of them.
It means multiplying the value of every moment because you’re finally using it with intention.

Redeemed time produces fruit you can see:

• Peace

• Clarity

• Presence

• Progress

• Momentum

• Legacy

Redeeming time is what happens when your hours finally line up with your assignment.

2. Awareness Comes Before Authority

In Rediscover Yourself, I walk you through the Time Inventory — the painfully honest, wildly eye-opening practice of documenting your time without judgment.

Not fixing it.
Not organizing it.
Not planning it.
Just seeing it.

Because you cannot take authority over what you refuse to acknowledge.

The Time Inventory is where women tell me things like:

“I didn’t realize I spent three hours a day in ‘transition time.’”
“I didn’t realize how much of my emotional energy went to other people’s emergencies.”
“I didn’t realize how much time I lost scrolling, cleaning up after people, or doing tasks I should’ve delegated.”

Awareness breaks the illusion.

Suddenly, you stop saying “I don’t have time” and start saying the truth:

“I haven’t been redeeming my time.”

3. Time Is Not Your Enemy — Distraction Is

We blame time like it’s an attacker.
But the real enemy is distraction disguised as responsibility.

You know the ones:

• Constant notifications

• Everyone else’s priorities

• A house that never stops demanding

• Tasks that don’t matter, but feel urgent

• Guilt that whispers “If you don’t do it, who will?”

But here’s what you learn in the book:
Most things in your life are loud.
Few things in your life are legacy.

Redeeming your time means you start choosing legacy over noise.

4. Redeeming Time Requires Surrender, Boundaries, and Vision

Three things shift when a woman decides to redeem her time:

She surrenders the illusion of being everything to everyone.

You stop playing savior and start playing steward.

She sets boundaries that reinforce her assignment.

Not everyone deserves access to your energy or your hours.

She gains vision for a life that is led, not survived.

Because once you see what God created you to do, you stop letting anyone or anything steal the hours meant for it.

And this is what I teach in the book:
Time freedom is not found in better scheduling.
It’s found in better alignment.

5. Redeemed Time Builds Legacy

You are not just redeeming time for yourself.
You are redeeming it for your children.
Your marriage.
Your community.
Your calling.
Your future.

Spending time creates survival.
Redeeming time creates legacy.

And this is why your time matters so much:

A woman who redeems her time becomes a woman who changes her household.
A household that changes becomes a family that changes.
A family that changes becomes a community that changes.

This is why The Village of Virtue & Victory exists:
To help families reclaim sacredness — starting with the hours we waste, ignore, or give away too cheaply.

We don’t get to control time.
But we do get to steward it.

And in 2026?

It’s time for women to stop spending…
and start redeeming.

XO

LADYBEC