Life math
Time is too valuable to waste
Tammy Johnston is the president and CEO of The Financial Guides
By Tammy Johnston
Current life expectancy in Canada is age 83. When you break it down into smaller chunks it works out to be 30,316 days or 727,584 hours.
Since we typically spend 8 hours a night sleeping that works out to 242,528 hours where we are unconscious. That leaves you with 485,056 waking hours for your entire life. By age 35 you are down to 17,533 days or 420,792 hours total with only 280,528 hours where you are awake.
So what does this have to do with you? The numbers look so large as to lull most people into a false sense of time having no end. Other people make the mistake of filling their days with an endless stream of pointless activities and stress. The reality is that time is finite and precious.
The question you need to ask yourself is “Am I investing my valuable time into activities that bring me joy and take me towards my goals?”
Here are some questions I suggest you take some time to ponder and answer:
How much of my work time am I investing in positive, move forward activities versus negative, wasteful, time sucking tasks?
How much of my personal time am I investing in healthy, life improving activities versus illness inducing, brain killing life sucking inertia?
How much of my life am I investing in life enhancing relationship building versus happiness destroying neglect and negative relationships?
Our time on earth is limited and unknown. As the old saying goes, “On your death bed you will never say ‘I wish I had spent more time at the office.’” While we do need to work, we need to pay our bills, pay for our fun, save for our future and our present, and it can bring us much personal satisfaction we need to choose our work activities. Are we on course or off? Are we wasting our time and efforts or are our hours bringing us the rewards we want?
In terms of our personal time are we making choices that are adding to the quality and the quantity of our lives or taking away from both? While no one expects you to be perfect, and hopefully that includes you, we do need to make the majority of our choices healthy ones. What are you eating, how are you moving, what are you reading, how are you living?
The most important and rewarding part of life is the relationships we build.
Are you putting in the necessary amount of time with the people you love or are you killing the relationship through neglect?
Are you spending your time with people you love, that you respect, that support you and that you support or are you living in a toxic environment?
Life is way too short to spend with people that suck the life and the joy out of you.
We need to be fully aware of our time and our daily and hourly decisions. We have no control over the passage of time. We do have full control of our choices on how to use the time we have been gifted. Make sure your time choices pay dividends and add up to the life you want.
“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.”
Albert Einstein
Tammy Johnston is president and CEO of The Financial Guides www.thefinancialguides.com.
Category: Living
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