“I Need More Time!”
“I just don’t have enough time.”
“I wish I didn’t have so much to do.”
“If there were only more days in a week.”
“I’m so busy, I wish there were two of me.”
“So much to do, so little time.”

And the list goes on and on. You’ve heard these comments before. In fact, you’ve probably used a couple of them yourself from time to time (excuse the pun). But one of the biggest lies we tell almost every single day (and people seem to believe) is “I don’t have enough time.” If you think I’m being a little hard on you (and myself), work through the following exercise and see if you don’t agree afterwards.

We all have the same amount of time per week: 168 hours (24 hours a day, seven days a week, so, let’s see where it goes…

Enter the amount of time spent in each area.  Enter minutes in the decimal form.  To the right is a simple key… If you want to get more detailed, you do the math.

15 minutes = .25 30 minutes = .50 45 minutes = .75 1 hour = 1