You only get 24 hours every day, and while there are plenty of ways to wring more out of the time you have, there isn\u2019t a way to get more of the stuff. But no need to worry\u2014there are plenty of ways to use the time to have better. Here are 7 of them!<\/p>\n
You may have heard of the 80\/20 rule, which says that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts. I like looking at the 80\/20 rule a different way: every action you take is either high or low leverage. The higher leverage an activity is, the more you\u2019ll get out of a small amount of effort.<\/p>\n
Some people invest their time into low-leverage activities, which they get almost nothing out of. Take watching TV, for example. If you watch 3 hours of TV a day (the average is more than 4) and you live until you\u2019re 80, you\u2019ll spend\u00a010 years\u00a0of your life watching TV! That\u2019s time you\u2019ll never get back, and time you could have invested into a much higher leverage activity, like\u00a0reading a book, having a coffee with someone you want to learn from, exercising,\u00a0writing, or\u00a0meditating.<\/p>\n
When you invest your time in high-leverage activities, you can cut the cruft from your life and make sure that what you invest your time in the activities that produce the greatest returns on your time.<\/p>\n
This may sound like a corny tip, but it isn\u2019t. You really\u00a0don\u2019t have that much time.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re average (I know you\u2019re not, but bear with me), according to the\u00a0American Time Use Survey, each work day you\u2019ll spend: 7.6 hours sleeping, 8.8 hours working, 1.1 hours eating, and 1.1 hours doing chores around the house, leaving you with about five and half hours left over for doing what you want to do. And these figures don\u2019t include investing time into your relationships, caring for others, or any other commitments you have already.<\/p>\n
You start every day with 24 hours, but once you subtract all of commitments from that, you\u2019re not left with much. When you constantly remind yourself how little time you have, you light a fire under yourself to make the most out of your time. You start to say \u201cno\u201d to commitments that don\u2019t mean much to you. You bring more energy and drive to your work. You become more defensive of your free time, and make the most of it.<\/p>\n
Knowing just how little time you have will let you put the time you do have to much better use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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