Time well spent November 28, 2006
Posted by Chris Oosthuizen in Life, Time management.7 comments
Every once in a while you get hit by an eye opening idea, the moment you wake up, after a good nights’ sleep. It is then that your mind is crystal clear and things make perfect sense. There must be a word for this state but I’m not sure what it’s called.
This morning it struck me how valuable my/our time is. 1hour a day amounts to 15.2 days a year or 1216.67 days/173.8 weeks/40 months/3.33 years a life time if you grow to be 80 years old.
The numbers get even worse when you consider that most people spend 6-8 hours sleeping. This means that our days are shortened to 18 hours and every hour becomes even more valuable.
So what does this all boil down to? For me being a successful person is all about making the correct choices all the time. When I decide what to do in the next 15 minutes it pretty much boils down to what I would want to do for 5 days out of a year, every year. Thinking of my time in this way really motivates me.
It puts things in perspective doesn’t it? Take your day one step at a time and become the person you want or ought to be. Because we are defined by the choices we make.
PS! Another way to interpret this: when I do push-ups for 15 minutes today and I manage 50 push-ups, it’s like I’ve done 18,250 push-ups this year. Now doesn’t that seem like an accomplishment?
