Consider this: We each live an average of 75 years, or about 657,000 hours. After the age of 10, we spend an average of 8 hours a day (or night) sleeping. That comes to 189,000 hours — or more than 21 years — in the sack. We spend another 2 hours a day eating, which works out to 47,450 hours — or 5 years, 5 months — at the table. We dedicate another hour a day to showering, drying, shaving, brushing, combing, and dressing before stepping out the door for a total of 27,375 hours — or more than 3 years — primping, plucking and preening. To top it off, between the ages of 22 and 65, we work an average of 40 hours a week, which comes out to about 82,560 hours — if we exclude vacations, holidays and sick days — or roughly 9 years, 5 months behind a desk, at the computer and in meetings.
Add it all up, and it comes to roughly 41 years — or more than half our lives — sleeping, eating, getting ready for work and working, which doesn't leave much time to mow the lawn, walk the dog, take the kids to soccer or play video games.
No wonder we're so frazzled!
The good news is that by taking a few shortcuts here and there, we can cut the time of mandatory tasks and increase our time available for beneficial pursuits (see "playing video games"). Best of all, you can apply these shortcuts now, just by spending less time with our little buddy known as the mouse and getting more acquainted with the computer keyboard.
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