It seems that I’m running up against the time hurdle again. Really, I think I need 36 hours in a day. If only I had that extra 12 hours in a day, I could accomplish everything I wanted to accomplish.

So where does all my time go? I need to answer this question, so I know how to better manage my time. So let’s do a quick review here.

I work 7:30-5 Monday-Friday. There goes 47.5 hours a week. I spend an hour a day traveling to and from work. There goes 5 hours a week. That’s a total of 52.5 hours that I spend on work and related activities.

I spend 8 hours a week at college. I also spend maybe 2 hours a week on homework. So that’s about 10 hours a week that is dedicated to college activities. Since my primary reason to keep going to college is to better my career, I’m going to add this to the work related activities category. So now we’re at 62.5 hours for work and related activities.

I spend roughly 8.5 hours a day sleeping. This adds up to 59.5 hours a week that I spend in the dream world and/or unconscious. This also means that I spend more time on work related activities than I spend sleeping.

I estimate that I spend about 10 hours a week preparing and eating food. Most of the food I eat is pretty simple to prepare, which helps to keep this number fairly low. I also spend about 20 hours a week socializing, visiting, and playing games with people. Most of this is on the weekends.

I spend roughly 8 hours a week doing household chores and maintenance. Taking out the trash, cleaning, changing the oil in the car, fixing the cars, mowing the lawn, etc. I also spend about 2 hours a week doing grocery shopping, and 6 hours a week doing other miscellaneous activities that I won’t include here.

Doing some quick calculations, this puts me at exactly 168 hours a week. Since there’s only 168 hours in a week, this means that virtually all of my time is accounted for. Here’s a table breaking down my weekly activities.

I have a lot planned for this site. I also have a lot planned for my future career. I think that my future career is really going to be centered around helping others to transcend their mental barriers and emotional blocks, researching extended human capacities, and experimenting with altered states of consciousness.

In order to accomplish any of these goals, and successfully transition my career over, I have to make time. Since I can’t really materialize time out of thin air, the only way to make time is to take it from somewhere else. So where do I steal the time from?

The answer, I think, lies near the top of the list. I need to spend less time working, sleeping, and socializing. Socializing, of course, is probably the thing that I have the most control over. If I really wanted to, I should be able to at least cut this in half. So there’s 10 hours a week that I can potentially reclaim right off the bat.

Sleeping. I’ve found that if I don’t get enough sleep, I don’t think or perform very well. So I don’t think I’m going to try and cut out sleep time. That would probably just have a detrimental effect.

And then there is work related activities. 62.5 hours per week, which is over half of my awake hours, is spent on bringing home little pieces of green paper. One of the main reasons that I put financial freedom so high on my list of goals to accomplish, is so that I can reclaim this 62.5 hours per week. So that I can reclaim over half of my life, and redirect it to more productive activities.

But for the time being, how can I reclaim some, or all, of this 62.5 hours a week? I only see three clear options here:

1. Find a way to make money doing what I love to do. Speed up the career transition. Since this is such a broad topic, I’ll write a journal entry focusing on this later on.
2. Find a different job that is closer to home. I could probably save 3 hours on travel time if I took this approach, but I may not get a job that pays as well. I could use these 3 hours to speed up my career transition.
3. Find a way to replace my current income with investment income. This is the (very slow) approach that I’m currently taking. If I didn’t need money, I could make the career transition fairly easily.

Interestingly, all of these approaches lead to choice number 1, which is transitioning my career into something that I find more interesting and where I can better serve others. Since this is such an important topic, I’m going to write another journal entry focusing specifically on this subject.

In order to make time, I can also cut back on college courses and socializing if required. But like I said above, the end result and purpose of this exercise is to make time for my new career. So really, I think I need a more clear direction of what my new career is going to be, how I can make money doing it, and how I can successfully make the career transition.

Should be fun.

Related posts:

1. Psychic Reading With Chris Landry Psychic Reading...