Wake up. You're already rich.
Heey what's up crew! My condolences I've been off the grid for a week or so. Was raving hard in the Netherlands while operating on minimal sleep, resulting in a well-deserved cold that just drained my creativity. So took a little break.
My aim today is to put a little bit of fire beneath your feet. You'll see what I mean in a second. And once again, my man Jordan Peterson serve as an inspiration for today's post.
And seriously guys, I want you to right fucking now bring up whatever podcast app you have in your phone, search for "The Joe Rogan Experience" and add episode #1070 with Mr. Peterson to your "to-listen" list. You'll thank me later. (Especially after the first hour or so it really takes off)
Alright boys and gals, let's get this show on the road.
Let me ask you a question, your only job is to be completely honest.
10 hours? 6 hours? 4 hours?
Notice that I'm not defining the term "waste" for you. I'm just asking the question.
When Peterson asks this question to his students in class. About 80% raise their hands at the 6 hours mark. Which I would agree - based on empirical evidence - to be quite a good estimate of how much time people waste daily.
So, let's do some arithmetic.
6 hours a day equals 42 hours a week. Let's make that 40 hours, a typical work week.
Now how much is your time worth?
Well it is at least worth minimal wage right?
I would argue it is worth a lot more though. A productive hour spent today do not just equal a hour worth of gains.
Because the benefits you get for that one productive hour will benefit you for the rest of your life - it's called the compound effect.
So let's assume a hour worth of your time is worth $50, which still is quite a low estimate. That means you waste $2000 a week, and over $100 000 a year. Keep doing that for 40 years and you have soon wasted $4 000 000 worth of money.
Get your shit together, or as Peterson would say, clean your room, set your own house straight before you try to change the world.
Although, going cold turkey and eliminating all time wasting in a day is a recipe for failure. If you waste 6 hours currently, push it down to 5 hours, or if that's too much, do 5 hours and 45 minutes.
Exchanging the activities you perceive as leisure is another thing you can do to up the productivity hours. Instead of watching brain-dead series, pick up a book or do something creative such as playing an instrument or creating art. You just have to push through those initial weeks or months of resistance until your brain adapts to the new behaviour.
Lastly, I want to stress that I don't advocate to eliminate all time wasting completely. Having 1 or 2 hours each day to just do whatever the fuck you want I think is key for healthy lifestyle.
Trust me.
I've done periods of 100% productivity, and while I believe that some people may have a certain propensity to sustain such a course of action, I myself only end up with an emotional state compared to an un-flushed toilet.
Executive summary: Aim high. Stop wasting time. You're already rich.
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don't motivate yourself , that doesn't work, ask yourself what you gonna do today if you know you gonna die tomorrow?
Nice ..
I liked it .. great tips from you
Who works hard deserves
Thanks for sharing
I am already rich ! I just need one more thing . "MONEY !!" hahaha . But its cool. Everything will come in line in God's time 😊😊😊 . Happy steeming !
Haha, agreed my friend, right back at ya 🙏🏼
i must be honest your post is one of the most posts i have enjoyed reading on Steemit, I felt productive by simply reading it!
A great way to look at things and manage things, i followed and upvote you .
Keep up the good word spreading !
Thank you my friend 🙏🏼
Nice article regarding hope and hope is everything williamwest and its true. Nowadays every person want to live better life, want part time work job for betterment in life.
I definitely resteem this post because its inspirational
Thank you and cheers 🤟🏼
Thanks a lot @williamwest for replying as well as sporting me.
Wasting time is a tough tough habit to break. Especially if you have social media accounts. I would recommend deleting all of your social media apps, but not deleting your accounts. Rather than wasting time by checking your SM every hour. Take a half hour every night to go through all of your accounts and network with people you care about. After all, it is important to keep in touch with people and continue to grow your relationships.
Yep, I share this view entirely. I don't have any SM apps on my phone besides "messenger". Usually check my facebook, linkedin and stuff once per day just to make sure I don't live under a rock and loose contact with certain relationships. Agreed brother!
I decided to look up the writing tag and guess what, I saw this post, the second that is encouraging me to go to work.
Please, I want to ask you, I'm in a dilemma now. I joined steemit truthfully to help me raise some money for my GRE and TOEFL examinations I am preparing for. But in the process, I made a lot of friends in the platform and not as much money to foot the 420USD bill. So to improve the money I make, I genuinely joined many communities that truthfully, are educating and have provided me with friends. This has taken a toll on me as it saps my time. Keeping up with the engagement of steemit now has slowed my preparation rate for the exams. I am now addicted, but thanks to the low SBD price, my addiction is profiting me almost nothing. Please advice me what I should do. If I quit steemit and go back to my preparations, with the lack of job in my country, I may find it difficult to raise the funds for the examinations, but if I continue steemit, it will affect my preparation and plans because as SBD drops, my efforts will only appear inconsequential. So I will have to steem more and probably loose focus. What do you advice I do?
First of all, thank you brother.
Secondly, not the most fun situation, but you'll grow a hell of a lot from it I'm sure. I don't know hen your examinations are due but Steemit is no platform to earn money quick (maybe it was but nowawadays I would say it is a slow process). If Steemit is your only option I would do high-quality and well-produced d.tube and d.live videos and hope for upvotes from those accounts. Myself and many others have made profits doing that (although it's more of a biproduct of good content than anything else). Also once you get the flow up, filming and editing a d.tube video can be done within an hour if your efficient. But remember again, your content must be good, sexy thumbnail etc. Otherwise your just wasting time.
Regardless I wouldn't spend more than 2-3 hours a day on Steemit, that leaves 12-13 hours of time where you have the possibility to study, which should be more than enough. Sending you energy brother 👊🏼
But work is hard...I'll start by making a coffee so I have the energy to go to the shops to buy more milk for my coffees...
Haha, I'm drinking coffee right now 😉
Thumbs up for a great take on the importance of self-improvement.
Time is money, but money is not time.
Thank you and I agree my friend.
+1 on you bio 🤟🏼
this post is very dangerous i thing is the hell.