Free two-week vacation
Do you wish you could get 68 hours back each year? What would you do with 68 additional hours? That’s almost two full work-weeks. Would you work on your art? Start a podcast? Read more? Finally get some rest?
Instead, we never feel like we have enough time. We watch the months and years go by, seeing our dreams get smaller and smaller in the rearview, never finding a moment to make them happen.
I’ve identified a culprit: meetings that go too long.
If you’re in control of your own schedule, at least to the smallest degree, and you allow one meeting per day to go just an extra 15 minutes longer than was scheduled, that adds up to 68 hours per year. 15 minutes, five days per week, for 52 weeks is 68 hours each year.
You might be thinking to yourself, “What am I going to do with 15 minutes in between meetings?” You might be thinking “My clients and managers just keep talking and talking and I can’t leave!” These notions may be true, to some degree. But I’m sure they aren’t 100% true. You can make incremental progress on something in only 15 minutes. You can tell your clients and managers that you have another call you have to get to.
Reclaim that time back. Just because you can’t get it all back, or you can’t be perfect, doesn’t mean it’s not a worthy pursuit to try. What if you got 30 hours back each year? Wouldn’t that be worth it?
