Unlock Your Hidden Reservoir of Free Time
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Darren Hardy LLC
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🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Did you know you likely have between 1,000 to 2,000 discretionary hours each year? Darren Hardy unravels the real math behind our perceived lack of time and challenges the excuses that hold us back from utilizing our true potential.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Darren Daily on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day. |
| 0:07.0 | Here's your success mentor Darren Hardy. |
| 0:10.0 | Everyone complains they don't have enough time. |
| 0:15.0 | They don't have enough time. |
| 0:16.6 | Enough me time. |
| 0:18.3 | They don't have enough free time. |
| 0:20.0 | Time for their hobbies, time for their passions, |
| 0:21.9 | time to get in shape, time to learn something new. |
| 0:24.7 | We've already talked before about how we actually have more free time now |
| 0:29.7 | than in any other population in the past, of all recorded history. We don't have to copy books by hand, |
| 0:36.5 | plow our own fields with a mule, or hell drive to the grocery store or bank anymore. |
| 0:42.0 | Let's do a little back of the envelope math here just to find out how |
| 0:46.0 | much free time we actually have. Okay, there's 24 hours in a day, right? That's 168 hours in a week, 8,760 hours in a year. |
| 0:55.8 | Now, some of those hours are spoken for, of course. |
| 0:58.9 | You get a good 8 hours of sleep, that's 2,20 of the 8,760, gone. |
| 1:05.0 | If you work 40 hours a week for 49 weeks, excluding holidays and two weeks vacation, |
| 1:09.0 | you're working 1,960 hours. |
| 1:12.0 | Subtracting all this takes us down to 3,880 waking, non-working hours. |
| 1:19.0 | Of course, people have vastly different levels of caregiving or chore responsibilities and some people work more or fewer hours per day. |
| 1:27.0 | But we can imagine that just about everybody has somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 discretionary hours per year. |
| 1:36.0 | The American Time Use Survey pegs the population average at about 5.9 hours of leisure per day or 1,894 hours per year. |
| 1:47.0 | Even the busiest segment of our population, |
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