One thousand hours out the window
I’ve started a new experiment of mine this year. From January 1 I’ve kept track of all my hours, 24 of them every day. So, I know how much I sleep (33 % of my time, so 8 hours a day), how much I socialize (11 %, or 18½ hours a week), and so on. I also know how much time I waste on surfing around like an idiot on the net, how many hours I’m physically active (not enough!), and the list goes on. Although I try to carefully keep track of everything I do, I still have a lot of fuzz – the term I use for hours not tracked. This turns out to be more than 3 hours a day on average. That’s more than 1,000 hours in a year! In this time I could have learned 1 or 2 new languages, or earned a good chuck of dollars working. But I don’t, since I have no idea where these 1,000 hours go. None a clue. I wonder if I’m simply poor at juggling my time, or if this is how it is for most people. What do you think?