One Percent of Your Day
"Take 1% of your day to plan 20% of your life"- Ameritrade ad
As you know, in one day there are 24 hours, 60 minutes per hour. This gives a total of 1440 minutes available to us in one day. So what is one percent of a day?
The math teaches us that .01*1440=14.40 minutes= 14 minutes and 24 seconds. Let us round it up to 15 minutes. I never realized before today that 15 minutes is about 1% of our day. And by extension 15 minutes each day is one percent of our life. The 20% of your life portion of the quote is most likely the average amount of time people spend in retirement.
How wisely do we use our 15 minute blocks? I believe poorly at best. But now that we know that 15 minutes is 1% we need a strategy. What I believe is the best thing we need to do is to pause after every 15 minuteblock and ask ourselves some questions:
1. Was the 1% meanigful?
2. Was it productive?
3. Were you present?
If it is not then you have another 15 minute block starting soon. What will you do different in order to get a triple YES!
In addition, the quote advises that we should spend one of those 15 minutes of our day towards planning our retirement. This could be as simple as reviewing the status of your accounts, bills, 401k, etc. We can use the same thinking to extend our life by exercising at least 15 minutes. Another 15 minutes could be used to meditate and say our prayers.
You get the idea...
Today's question is:
"Do you mark the passing of 1% of your day?"
"Take 1% of your day to plan 20% of your life"- Ameritrade ad
As you know, in one day there are 24 hours, 60 minutes per hour. This gives a total of 1440 minutes available to us in one day. So what is one percent of a day?
The math teaches us that .01*1440=14.40 minutes= 14 minutes and 24 seconds. Let us round it up to 15 minutes. I never realized before today that 15 minutes is about 1% of our day. And by extension 15 minutes each day is one percent of our life. The 20% of your life portion of the quote is most likely the average amount of time people spend in retirement.
How wisely do we use our 15 minute blocks? I believe poorly at best. But now that we know that 15 minutes is 1% we need a strategy. What I believe is the best thing we need to do is to pause after every 15 minuteblock and ask ourselves some questions:
1. Was the 1% meanigful?
2. Was it productive?
3. Were you present?
If it is not then you have another 15 minute block starting soon. What will you do different in order to get a triple YES!
In addition, the quote advises that we should spend one of those 15 minutes of our day towards planning our retirement. This could be as simple as reviewing the status of your accounts, bills, 401k, etc. We can use the same thinking to extend our life by exercising at least 15 minutes. Another 15 minutes could be used to meditate and say our prayers.
You get the idea...
Today's question is:
"Do you mark the passing of 1% of your day?"
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