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Before Breakfast

Think 168 hours, not 24

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Never enough hours in the day? No problem. We don’t live our lives in days. We live our lives in weeks. Change your mindset to feel better about work, family, and everything in between.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi I'm Daniel Tosh, host of a new podcast called Tosh Show.

0:03.4

I'll be interviewing people that I find interesting, so not celebrities, and certainly not

0:07.8

comedians. We'll be covering topics like religion, travel, sports, gambling, but mostly it will be about being a working

0:16.3

mother.

0:17.3

If you're looking for a podcast that will educate and inspire or one that will really make

0:21.3

you think, this isn't the one for you.

0:24.0

Listen to Toss Show on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:30.0

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

0:39.8

168 hours, not 24.

0:44.5

When I first started writing about time many years ago,

0:47.6

I realized something.

0:49.3

A lot of people said the phrase 24-7, but no one multiplied it through. I certainly hadn't. I had to

0:56.9

get out a pen and some paper to do the math. It turns out there are 168 hours in a week.

1:04.2

This number is important for a few reasons.

1:07.2

First, a week is the cycle of life

1:09.2

as we actually live it.

1:11.2

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

1:15.8

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

1:19.6

or a Saturday.

1:21.1

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

1:27.0

would look at least reasonably similar.

1:29.0

Second, looking at a week shows us how much time we have.

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