The Shocking Ways We Spend Our Time and 9 Ways to Invest it Better

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.8 • 28.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

How many times have you caught yourself being on your phone when you should be doing something else? Or maybe you’re productive for 5 minutes and then take a 2-hour break when you get distracted. We all do it, but there are ways to be more productive and achieve more in your day. In this episode, you’ll learn how to build habits that will stop you from wasting your time and help you start investing it in things that actually matter.

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0:00.0	We spend 26 years of our lives sleeping.
0:03.6	We spend 11 years watching television or Netflix.
0:07.6	We spend 8 years shopping for groceries and clothes and everything else.
0:13.4	We currently spend 6 years on social media or online
0:17.4	and we all know the truth is we spend a lot more time than that moving forward.
0:21.8	So it's crazy when you think about it that way.
0:24.6	Time is so valuable.
0:32.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to on purpose.
0:35.0	My name is Jay Shetty and I'm genuinely so grateful and happy
0:39.2	that you are here every single week choosing to listen, learn and grow.
0:45.2	And this is really important because today's message, today's theme
0:50.0	is all about the shocking ways we spend our time and eight ways to invest it better.
0:59.4	And these are two words that we all know very well.
1:02.8	Spending and investing.
1:05.8	All of us spend money, we don't necessarily invest it
1:10.0	and a lot of us we spend time but we don't necessarily invest it.
1:14.8	The one thing that we know about spending,
1:17.4	when you spend something you don't get it back.
1:20.8	It doesn't create anything.
1:22.8	When you invest it, it creates future value.
1:26.8	Now this was crazy to me. Listen really carefully.
1:30.4	The average person lives for 75 years and in that 75 year lifespan,
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