!#8# The First Step of Time Management - Do You Know How Much of Your Life is Simply Being Wasted Away?

!±8± The First Step of Time Management - Do You Know How Much of Your Life is Simply Being Wasted Away?

What if you can find two more hours each day for you to do whatever you want? When you step back and evaluate what you have accomplished each day, what kind of results are you getting?

Let us do some simple math and what you find out will stun you a bit.

Just assuming that you spend 8 hours for sleep each day, you have 16 hours left or 112 hours a week. Are you making the most of those 112 hours? Let us say that you give yourself a very liberal 4 hours each day for food and recreation, you still have 84 hours each week for getting things done in your life. Think about 84 hours for a moment! Even when you take away 50 hours for work and a commute, you can use the left 34 hours for something else. Furthermore, we can do one more deduction. We set aside another hour a day for miscellaneous activities such as paying the bill and go shopping. Then 27 hours are left for your use. How do you use those 27 hours? How about just 10 hours of that a week? Are you wasting away that much you think?

You might not feel so bad about just 10 hours that you probably cannot logically account for per week. But please consider this: that is 520 hours a year, which is 32.5 days (16 hour days) that has been down the dumper each year. This could be a bare minimum!

Through this exercise, you might be able to realize the magnitude of what you may be doing with your precious resource - your time. This is the first but important step if you want to improve your time management. You do have to be very conscious of how you spend your time each day. I hope this exercise will produce results for you.