Does anybody out there find themselves pretty busy these days? Maybe a couple of you out there, or maybe a couple hundred or perhaps everyone is having their days filled up with more and more commitments and errands that are eating away at what little free time they can squeak out in a day. Then again, it could just be a personal issue but something tells me I am not the only one in this rat race. For me, this has fostered a quest to make the daily activities as efficient as possible. So assessing the available hours in a typical weekday (5×24 = 120hrs), we have to quickly eliminate the hours dedicated to our employer. For ease I’m just going to put this at 9hr/day discounting the extra work hours everyone gives throughout the week), which leaves us with 75. This likely differs for everyone, but my commute total (to and from work) is 1 hr so that leaves 70 discretionary hours a week. Note, before you ask, I do consider sleep discretionary and not mandatory and is really just an issue of how well your body can function with a specified amount of sleep. However, let’s just take care of those hours now. This has been going up along with the age count, but for now I do try to get 7 hrs a night (hey, it’s an optimistic goal). Now that is a hefty slash in the available count leaving us a mere 35 hrs (5 hrs/day) to get our chores done and any entertainment we want. In black and white that doesn’t seem to bad, but add in dinner, breakfast and human preening you likely chip away another 2hrs/day. So there you have it, a long way to simply pointing out that there are roughly 3 hrs a day to get all my grand plans finished….and by my count I just selfishly took about 5 minutes of your day (sorry about that).
If you have time, hit the jump and find out the reason for this time assessment.
Life Intrigued 