Where is my time going?
To put things into perspective
I decided
to do a little math exercise. 1 day = 24 hours
1 week = 7 days = 168 hours
Category- Health & Basic Needs:
🔸Recommended sleep - 8 hours per day - 56 hours per week;
Category - Work & Career:
🔸Work - 8 hours per day Mon-Fr - 40 hours per week;
🔸Commute to work - 1 hour Mon-Fr - 5 hours per week;
🔸Freelance teaching - 6 hours per week;
Category - Parenting:
🔸Drop off at school / Pick up from school - 1 hour per day - 7 hours per week;
🔸Homework & Reading - 1 hour per day - 7 hours per week;
🔸Playing - 1 hour per day - 7 hours per week;
Category - Health & Basic Needs:
🔸Breakfast - 1 hour per day - 7 hours per week;
🔸Lunch - 1 hour per day - 7 hours per week;
🔸Dinner - 1 hour per day - 7 hours per week;
Category- Social life:
🔸Family and friends - 1 hour per day - 7 hours per week;
Category- Health & Basic Needs:
🔸Yoga - twice a week - 4 hours per week;
🔸Doctor’s Appointments, Massages, Facials, Mani-pedis, Haircuts - 2 hours per week;
🔸Shopping, grocery shopping - 2 hours per week;
🔸House keeping: laundry, dishes toilet scrubbing - 2 hours per week;
🔸Hobbies: languages, photography & videography, travel planning - 2 hours per week.
Sounds reasonable, right? Ok, so...
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168 hours in a week
- 56 hours of sleep
- 40 hours at work
- 5 hours of commute
- 6 hours teaching
- 21 hours of active parenting
- 21 hours cooking & eating
- 2 hours of grocery shopping
- 7 hours on social life
- 4 hours for yoga
- 2 hours for personal care
- 2 hours for hobbies
- 2 hours for house work
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0 hours
What?!
0 hours left!
And this doesn’t include long showers that I love, paying bills, taking care of flat tires and other stuff that inevitably happens day in and day out.
Do you know where your time is going? Write it down and prepare to be shocked.
#wheredidthetimego #кудауходитвремя
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