The only thing we have equal in all of humanity is time. – Anthony Robbins
Take a moment and think about that quote. Very Powerful. It does not matter who you are, where you live, what car you drive or how big your bank account is, we all have 168 hours each week. How do you choose to spend your time? How do you allocate the 168 hours? Here is my stab at an allocation:
Life |
Time Used Per Week |
Maximum Time Available |
168 hour |
| Sleeping | (49) hour |
| Eating | (14) hours |
| Working * | (40) hours |
| Exercising | (5) hours |
| Commuting to and from work | (4) hours |
Subtotal |
(112)hours |
Potential Available Time |
56 hours |
56 hours to use. More work, more sleep, more exercise, parenting time, marital time, spiritual time, personal development, golf, television, whatever you want to do you have 56 hours available. Does that seem like a lot of time? If I work another 28 hours in a week (which I usually do) then I only have 28 hours for family and every other activity (surely my family deserves 3 hours per day or 12.5% of my time) which leaves me with 7 hours for everything else I want to do in a given week.
Wow. I may need to reevaluate my time allocation. Or I may need to become more efficient with the hours that I have available for work. Maybe technology can help? Maybe I can become more efficient? All I know is that I need to become better and my team needs to become better. Time is an area where the playing field is equal. It is the use of that time that separates the winners from the losers.





