If you spend an hour a day on something, that adds up to just over 15 days a year (24 hour days.) An offhand remark I heard recently asked, "why do you give Zuckerberg 15 days a year in your head?"
That is a very good question. The handful of posts on Facebook from family and friends would probably only take about 3 minutes a day to see, the rest of it is addiction, based on an algorithm designed to keep you scrolling, the more you scroll the more advertising you see, the more money a man who will never have enough earns. It is a hard addiction to quit, but we can be stronger than the pull.
What could I spend that hour a day, 15 days a year doing?
Blogging, and reading blogs takes about an hour a day. I enjoy it, I get to select what content I see. Posting allows me to exercise my creative abilities.
I walk an hour a day. Walking is physical, and mental time. If I am walking outside, I do it in silence, only following the internal conversation.
I read at least an hour a day. I am on the way to finishing about 80 books this year. Add an hour a day to that, and I would easily go over 100 books a year.
I enjoy painting, and keep promising to sketch. I should claim that nearly an hour a day, and dedicate it to art. An hour a day would make a real difference.
I miss old fashioned cards and letters. I send a few, I should send more, I should use some of that hour a day, to write to people.
I should spend more time listening.
As we get closer to the end of the year, I start to seriously think about what I want to do in the coming year. Realizing that one hour a day, is 15 days a year, leaves me this Monday reexamining what I spend my hour a day on.
What hour a day, could you move from what you are doing, to what you would like to do?
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