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This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that a weekend is about 60 hours.

By knowing how much time there is and knowing what the landscape looks like,

you can increase the odds that you spend your weekends well.

I know many people are tracking their time with me this week.

Every year I host an annual time tracking challenge,

where we try to see what 168 hours of life really looks like.

If you are participating, I hope the time tracking is going fabulously.

But whether you are tracking your time or not, as you come into the weekend, it helps to realize that this is not a small part of the week.

Weekends sometimes feel shorter than we like, but they are not insubstantial.

From a time perspective, they are not an afterthought.

Unfortunately, they are often treated as such and spent less mindfully than other hours,

which means they may not be spent on things we'd choose if we put more thought into it.

So here's a number to think about. There are 60 hours between 6 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Monday. If quitting time is

earlier for you on Friday, then you have a few more hours. If you wake up later on Monday,

well, we can stretch the calculations there too.

Now, some of those 60 hours are spent to sleep, of course, but let's say you get eight hours of sleep a night on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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