Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to think about how many hours we have in life.

And while that might sound a bit morbid, I find it helpful for clarifying what matters and what

doesn't.

You may not have calculated this before, but there are 8,760 hours in a year.

That means that if you live to be 90, you've got about 789,000 hours in your life.

Let's be optimistic and call this 800,000. It's just easier to work with.

This makes a lifespan somewhere between 91 and 92 years.

I imagine that for most podcast listeners some proportion of those

800,000 hours have come and gone. There's no doubt plenty left but it's not an

infinite amount. It's also not trillions or billions

or even millions of hours it's probably somewhere in the six figures in other

words it's a number we can picture, a number we can get our heads around.

And while no one really likes to think about the finite nature of our own time, this finite number

opens up the possibility of more calculated

decision-making. We can think about how we'd like to allocate and invest these

hours. We can think about what deserves to be in these hours and what does not.

However old you are, I have an encouraging message for you.

The hours you have left can still hold a lot. A two week trip to Australia would be

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