The power of an hour a day

Dear Steemers,

What a difference an hour a day can make!

Think about it, anything that you do for an hour each day, and the year has 365 days, can make you a master on that! 365 hours!!!! Okay, maybe you'd be thinking that you'll need to take some days of rest, but even so, if you skip weekends (or two days a week) your result is 261 hours which is still a lot.

I'm using this principle with reading books. I wake up earlier and after I'm done with meditation I'd make a cup of coffee and read a novel for an hour. Because my time is limited I even use an alarm to not exceed but also to don't stop before I reach my new daily milestone. The result? I feel proud of myself because I honestly enjoy reading and because I notice how much this practice does to my writing in English -- with Spanish being my mother tongue --.

One of the good things I got out of the month without a cellphone is that I got used to reading more during my travels, and even though it was my intention to keep on doing it once back at home, I knew that the distractions would be several and that I could easily find excuses to don't do it.

Indeed I found myself ten days after my return scrolling down on my phone endlessly or watching Netflix on my free time (or both.) I would read a bunch of things on facebook, blogs, #crypto - news, and interesting things always because I always want to learn new things, but... but this isn't the same as reading a book, literature!

So I made it a daily milestone to read before I start working, early morning. To start my day with a novel on my lap and a cup of coffee. By the way, I'm currently reading a book called The fall of a sparrow by Robert Hellenga.

But back to my point, and seriously, there is nothing you can't achieve or better said you can make anything happen. But you need to want it and you need to plan it. And remember that if you keep on putting excuses things won't change, you will always be that person wanting to do something but who never does them.

So don't underestimate the value of an hour time, that hour that you spend on your social media feed, watching celebrities's diets and workouts or just looking at other's lives you could be using it for something you really, really want to be doing and always tell yourself you don't have time for. You can definitely learn a new skill or master one you aren't that good at yet in an hour a day!

The only one way of getting different outcomes is through different actions!

That's all for today, leave your comment, upvote, and subscribe. Til tomorrow!

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Mindi