WEBVTT - Your next 8.760 hours

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good morning.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is to consider what you would like to do

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<v Speaker 1>with the next 8,760 hours of your life. That is

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<v Speaker 1>the number of hours in a year. And thinking about

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<v Speaker 1>a year in terms of the next 8,760 hours, opens

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<v Speaker 1>up a lot of possibilities. Today's tip, like several others

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<v Speaker 1>this week, comes from my new book, Big Time, A

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<v Speaker 1>Simple Path to Time Abundance. In the book, I talk

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<v Speaker 1>about how zooming out and looking at time from a

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<v Speaker 1>bigger perspective allows us to embrace the concept of time abundance.

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<v Speaker 1>After all, a lot more fits in 8,760 hours than

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<v Speaker 1>in 24 hours. On any given day, it may be

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<v Speaker 1>impossible to work a 12-hour shift, read books to your

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<v Speaker 1>kids and put them to bed, train for a half marathon,

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<v Speaker 1>and go out to dinner with friends. But it is

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<v Speaker 1>possible to do those things many times over and a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of other things, too, when we zoom out and

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<v Speaker 1>consider the next 8,760 hours. Of course, to know how

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<v Speaker 1>we should allocate those hours, we need to know what

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<v Speaker 1>we want to do with them. One way to get

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<v Speaker 1>at what you'd like to do in a year is

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<v Speaker 1>to imagine yourself on today's date next year. What do

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<v Speaker 1>you want to have achieved? Do you want to have

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<v Speaker 1>read all the works of Shakespeare? Do you want to

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<v Speaker 1>have gotten a promotion? Do you want to have run

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<v Speaker 1>a half marathon, learned Spanish, landed a new job, helped

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<v Speaker 1>your kid find a great fit college? When you know

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<v Speaker 1>what you'd like to accomplish, figure out how many hours

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<v Speaker 1>it might take to get there. For instance, I know

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<v Speaker 1>from personal experience that reading all the works of Shakespeare

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<v Speaker 1>takes less than 30 minutes a day if you do

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<v Speaker 1>it every day for a year. That is about 180 hours,

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<v Speaker 1>give or take. That is a mere 2.05% of a year.

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<v Speaker 1>If you plan on sleeping eight hours a night, it

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<v Speaker 1>is 3.08% of your waking 5,840 hours. If you work

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<v Speaker 1>2,000 hours a year, which is 40 hours a week

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<v Speaker 1>for 50 weeks, it is 4.69% of your waking, non-working hours.

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<v Speaker 1>Still sounds pretty doable. If you want to land a

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<v Speaker 1>new job, the amount of time you'll need for that

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<v Speaker 1>is a little less predictable than Shakespeare. But you could

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<v Speaker 1>decide that you will budget an hour every weekday for

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<v Speaker 1>the project. That might mean scheduling an hour every Monday

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<v Speaker 1>night for scouring job boards, an hour before work Tuesday

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<v Speaker 1>through Thursday for sending out resumes, and an hour on

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<v Speaker 1>your lunch break on Fridays for informational interviews. Not every

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<v Speaker 1>week will look exactly the same, and hopefully you'll end

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<v Speaker 1>up with some job interviews that consume some of the

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<v Speaker 1>time you have budgeted. But you can translate the abstract

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<v Speaker 1>desire for a new job into the time on your

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<v Speaker 1>calendar to achieve your goals. So it goes for many things.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe you decide you'd like weekly date night with your partner.

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<v Speaker 1>That's about 100 hours a year. Totally doable. That's less

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<v Speaker 1>time than most people spend on screens in a month.

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<v Speaker 1>Want to travel with old friends? Two long weekend trips

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<v Speaker 1>would total less than 144 hours. You just have to

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<v Speaker 1>figure out when it fits in 8,760. You might want

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<v Speaker 1>more time with hobbies. Maybe you can't paint every day.

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<v Speaker 1>But with some intentionality, you can almost certainly find 50

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<v Speaker 1>hours over the course of a year. You could decide

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<v Speaker 1>to spend two hours painting every other Sunday afternoon. Wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>that feel amazing? When we think about time in terms

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<v Speaker 1>of days, it is easy to feel a sense of scarcity.

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<v Speaker 1>But when we zoom out and realize we have 8,760

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<v Speaker 1>more hours before we finish this loop around the sun,

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<v Speaker 1>suddenly we realize that there is room to fit in

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of experiences. So today I invite you to

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<v Speaker 1>consider your next 8,760 hours. What would you like to accomplish?

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<v Speaker 1>And what time do you need to invest to make

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<v Speaker 1>that happen? I'd love to hear about your plans. You

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<v Speaker 1>can reach me at laura at lauravandercam.com. In the meantime,

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<v Speaker 1>this is Laura. Thanks for listening. And here's to making

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<v Speaker 1>the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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<v Speaker 1>If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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