Time management - 10% rule

Arnold says

"The day is 24 hour; 6 hours we sleep, so you have left 18 hours" - Arnold Schwarzenegger use to say. Of course most of us need 8, rather than 6 hours of sleep, but still, we have another 16 hours.

Most of us have work, children and thousand of other duties. Mostly we are exhausted and don't have energy and... time to anything more. From the other hand we have strong aid, which our ancestors didn't have. I think about dishwashers, online shopping, automatic vacuum cleaners. So... we still don't have time. Some of these improvements mentioned before allow us to save some time only seemingly.

40 years ago, when you want to buy TV, you were going to some store and choose one of 5 or 10 devices. It took not more than half a day. Present day, you must choose between thousands of options including brand, HDR, resolution, smart, size options. It can take not half a day, but half a month. This is a curse of choice. Still, our life is easier, because we don't have to struggle with everything on our own.

What the hell we are doing with our time?

We have social media, Internet, TV series and much more time consuming activities.

It's hard to evaluate how much we are loosing our time every day in FB or Internet, but other things in measurable.

For example total lenght of "Game of Thrones", "Breaking Bad" and "Walking Dead" is over 11 days, 264 hours. Some of us can check our stats on Steam, too.

Of course, you can be like Chuck Norris and surf through the whole Internet... twice, but... what value brings it to your life?

We shouldn't abandon our hobbies and feel guilty, because we need some relax, but let's try to keep some balance. I'm really upset when I read about some people weekend challenges, like one TV series every weekend in 2020.

10% rule

Let's suppose, that all of us spend only 10% of time previously consumed for 3 great TV series with other activities. What can we do in 26 hours? It could be:

• running 195 kilometers (with miserable pace of 8 minutes per kilometer),
• making at least basic C#, Java, C++ courses (all of them),
• learning foreign language,
• training half an hour for 52 days (one a week in whole year).

We can also talk to our partner, play with our children or anything else. We have endless opportunities.

The next step is yours

Merely 10% of your free time allows you to make immeasurable progress in anything you want (because you can not divide some number by, if you didn't make anything in this area previously).

I would be glad for sharing your thoughts, plans and stories. What will you do with your 10%? What would happened? Let's try and good luck.

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