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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's tip is to think

168 hours, not 24. When I first started writing about time many years ago,

I realized something.

A lot of people said the phrase 24-7,

but no one multiplied it through.

I certainly hadn't.

I had to get out a pen and some paper to do the math.

It turns out there are 168 hours in a week.

This number is important for a few reasons.

First, a week is the cycle of life as we actually live it.

This is the smallest unit of time that offers a representative picture of life.

If I chose a random 24 hours of your life, it would look very different if I chose a Tuesday

or a Saturday.

If I choose a random 168 hours, though, the odds are much better that my next pick of 168 hours

would look at least reasonably similar.

Second, looking at a week shows us how much time we have. Things that appear to consume a lot of time

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