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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to think about your next eight thousand, seven

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Speaker 1: hundred eighty four hours. There are normally eight thousand, seven

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty hours in a year, but this episode

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Speaker 1: is airing at the start of a leap year, so

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Speaker 1: we get an extra twenty four hours to play with.

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Speaker 1: Eight seven hundred eighty four hours is a lot of time,

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Speaker 1: if not an infinite amount of time, so it is

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Speaker 1: worth thinking about the best ways to experience it. So

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Speaker 1: I know that at the start of each new stretch

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Speaker 1: of time, I picture it is somewhat like a blank page. Eventually,

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Speaker 1: this page, and really my entire book of hours, will

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Speaker 1: be filled. We will be on the other side of

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Speaker 1: this time and it will have been filled with something.

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Speaker 1: But what it is filled with is at least partially

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Speaker 1: up to us. I think that's kind of exciting. With

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Speaker 1: eight thousand, seven hundred eighty four as the denominator, we

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Speaker 1: can start thinking about the various numerators that tend to

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Speaker 1: go into life. I know I tend to work about

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Speaker 1: thirty five hours a week on average. If I do

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Speaker 1: that fifty weeks this year. That is one thousand, seven

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Speaker 1: hundred fifty hours. One thousand, seven hundred fifty is approximately

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Speaker 1: twenty percent of eight thousand, seven hundred eighty four hours.

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Speaker 1: What can I do in those one thousand, seven hundred

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Speaker 1: fifty hours. That is more than enough time to write

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Speaker 1: a book, though it is probably not enough time to

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Speaker 1: write ten books. I can attempt big things, but also

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Speaker 1: be choosy. I sleep about seven and a half hours

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Speaker 1: a day over three hundred sixty six days. That amounts

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Speaker 1: to two thousand, seven hundred forty five hours spent a sleep.

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Speaker 1: That will be about thirty one percent of my eight thousand,

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Speaker 1: seven hundred eighty four hours. I should probably make sure

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Speaker 1: I have some comfortable pajamas. Subtracting one thousand, seven hundred

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Speaker 1: fifty and two thousand, seven hundred forty five from eight thousand,

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Speaker 1: seven hundred eighty four we get four thousand, two hundred

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Speaker 1: eighty nine hours for other things. If you do the math,

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Speaker 1: that is forty nine percent of my time, which will

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Speaker 1: not be spent working or sleeping. That is enough time

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Speaker 1: for a lot, So it is worth thinking about what

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Speaker 1: I would like to two point into those hours What

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Speaker 1: activities would I like to do with my family? What

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Speaker 1: books would I like to read? What trips would I

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Speaker 1: like to take? Though of course I'll be sleeping for

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Speaker 1: some of those travel hours too. Are their concerts or

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Speaker 1: shows that might be worth two to four hours of

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Speaker 1: those four thousand, two hundred eighty nine hours. How about

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Speaker 1: runs somewhere beautiful? Maybe I can spend a few of

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Speaker 1: those four thousand, two hundred eighty nine hours running along

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Speaker 1: the beach. As you ponder the upcoming year, it might

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Speaker 1: be fun to think about how you'd like to allocate

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Speaker 1: your eight thousand, seven hundred eighty four hours. My guess

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Speaker 1: is that you do have enough time for the things

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Speaker 1: you need to do, so you can start pondering how

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Speaker 1: you would like to spend the other hours, doling them

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Speaker 1: out on whatever you deem worthy. The good news is

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Speaker 1: that even very serious hobbies and past times don't take

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Speaker 1: a ton of time. I have got four thousand, two

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Speaker 1: hundred eighty nine waking, non working hours. If I played

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Speaker 1: the piano for twenty minutes three times a week, that

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Speaker 1: is just fifty two of those hours. Singing in my

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Speaker 1: choir feels like a fairly large commitment, but it is

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Speaker 1: four hours a week for approximately thirty six weeks a year.

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Speaker 1: That is one hundred forty four out of those four thousand,

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Speaker 1: two hundred eighty nine waking non working hours. A lot

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Speaker 1: can fit if you want it to. So what do

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Speaker 1: you want to see fit in your upcoming eight thousand,

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Speaker 1: seven hundred eighty four hours. I am picturing all of

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Speaker 1: us at the end of the year reflecting on how

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Speaker 1: those hours have been spent. They will will be spent

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Speaker 1: on something. Eventually, the book will be written, but what

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Speaker 1: is written on the pages is at least partly up

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Speaker 1: to us. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Thanks

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