Step 1: How much time do you actually have?
Let's assume you sleep about seven or eight hours a night. That would leave 16 or 17 waking hours each day. Or about 1,000 minutes.
You can think about those 1,000 minutes as 100 10-minute blocks. That’s what you wake up with every single day. 100 blocks. Mapped onto a 10x10 grid that looks like (Source: waitbutwhy.org):
Step 2: How are you using the time you have?
Take a step back and think about how you’re using each of those 100 blocks that you get each day.
How many of them are put towards making your future better, and how many of them are used on Netflix? How many of them are spent with friends and family, and how many are reserved for time by yourself?
Cooking dinner requires three blocks, while Deliveroo requires zero—is cooking dinner worth three blocks to you? Reading 20 minutes a night allows you to read 15 additional books a year—is that worth two blocks a day?
Step 3: Find time for things you love
Looking at your grid, do you really not have time to learn another language? Or to go on that fishing trip? When those thoughts cross your mind, pause, take a deep breath and reframe - say to yourself:
"I will find time for things that are important to me"
Look at your schedule and consider what is absolutely necessary and what could be moved (or ignored) to give you some extra time.
You might not find it every day. But think about it this way. Taking 6 blocks away from something you don't enjoy each week and using that time better, means that you can spend 52 hours (over two days) extra each year doing something you value.
Do more of what you love and enjoy every block ◻️◼️.
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