{"id":1680,"date":"2020-07-31T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T08:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezilon.com\/topics\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2021-05-25T09:09:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T09:09:43","slug":"the-power-of-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezilon.com\/topics\/the-power-of-an-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of An Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We live in a busy, hectic world. Often we hear comments about how life would be much easier if only there were a couple of extra hours to spare each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me ask you though, what would you use those extra hours for? Do you really need them? Don&#8217;t you think 24 hours every day is enough &#8230; if we use them properly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s break up these 24 hours into the 3 generally accepted categories:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 hours sleep<br>8 hours work<br>8 hours &#8216;free&#8217; time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When was the last time you actually slept 8 hours, or used 8 hours &#8216;<strong>free<\/strong>&#8216; time with your family and friends, or made a start on that new book you bought or course you&#8217;ve been promising yourself for so long?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s just not\nenough time! I have to work all day and then when I get home I&#8217;m just so tired.\nI eat dinner with my family then I &#8216;relax&#8217; in front of the TV.&#8221; (Here you\ncan easily catch up with those 8 hours!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When was the last time you asked your partner, or children, how they are? I mean REALLY ask them and LISTEN to what they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently read a rather disheartening statistic &#8211; western men, on average, use less than 17 minutes a day with their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could the whole\ndilemma be nothing more than a question of priority? Let&#8217;s borrow one of those\nhours from our day. One solitary hour. Now, what could we use these 60 minutes\nfor (apart from watching yet another re-run of your favorite TV show)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s try to put things in perspective. How many weeks each year do you go on vacation? How many hours every month do you use on personal development (physical AND mental)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many minutes each day are you TOGETHER with your family? If you really want more time for yourself and the things you want in your life &#8211; think about this&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you use an extra 30 minutes a day with your family, in one year from now you will have given them more quality time than you use in over one whole month of full-time work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, if you allow yourself just one hour every day to read, or study something you would like to learn more about &#8211; how much more knowledge do you think you will have gained about that subject after using the equivalent of over 2 month&#8217;s full-time work studying over the next year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No, we cannot make time, but we can certainly take it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each and every day is\nyour responsibility to choose what you want to use your 24 hours for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some say time is money.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps that may be true, but which is most important to you? The difference between time and money is simple; money comes, money goes whereas time disappears forever. With time we can always create more money, but where can we buy time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, 60 minutes a\nday, over a 12-month period, is the same amount of time as working 40 hours a\nweek &#8211; without breaks &#8211; for 9 weeks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ask yourself again, is it really so difficult to take one hour a day for what you love most?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a busy, hectic world. Often we hear comments about how life would be much easier if only there were a couple of extra hours to spare each day. Let me ask you though, what would you use those extra hours for? Do you really need them? 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