Hey everyone Daniel here from Next Level life and today I wanted to do something a little
bit different.
You see on this channel I talk about a lot of things, I talk about finances, I talk about
productivity and how to get ahead in your career, I talk about how to get better at
various social skills and have stronger and more fulfilling relationships, I talk about
your psychology and mental health.
I even talk about education and intelligence and of course I do the book summaries.
Basically anything to help you get your life to the next level.
But one thing that I don't talk about often enough is time.
Because one of the traps of the self development community is that you can easily find yourself
watching all of these videos and getting all these truly great ideas but, without really
realizing it, you find yourself getting sucked into the black hole of the internet.
You're watching all these videos on YouTube or wherever and before you know it 6 hours
have flown by you look out the window and it's dark and you're like what the heck just
happened?
It's an easy trap to fall into and I even fell into it when I first got into this community.
I watched a ton of these videos, but never actually did anything with the knowledge I
was picking up, because I was spending all my time watching the videos.
And the trick that I eventually found that really helped me break that cycle is known
as the 3, 2, 1 go trick.
Basically all you have to do is picture a goal that you want to achieve in your mind
and figure out the next step you have to take in order to either achieve that goal.
Now note I said the next step not the whole plan necessarily just the thing you'd have
to do right now.
And then in your mind you say Okay 3, 2, 1 go.
And as soon as you say go no matter how you're feeling you get up and you do that next step
that you had in your mind.
Now why do I feel that idea is so important that I'd do a full video on it?
Well it's because a lot of the time you have on this Earth is not your own.
Let me explain.
When you're young life and everything in it seems like it'll go on forever.
You're in school forever, you're at work forever, chores take forever, oh and did I mention
school takes forever.
Can't I just go out and play?
Obviously when we grow up we realize that these feelings of everything takes forever
aren't necessarily true.
But you know what when you actually break down the math it's a lot closer to true than
you think.
With that in mind, in this video I'm going to be talking about how much time we really
have?
Statistically from the moment you're born, at least here in the States, you have approximately
79 years to live which to most of us seems like a long time but how much of that time
is really our own?
You spend about a third of your life sleeping, which leaves you with roughly 52 years of
conscious living left.
But wait you're in school a ton of time, and even assuming that you get all your homework
done between the end of the lecture and the Bell you're still in school or traveling to
or from it everyday for roughly 7 hours.
That's 35 hours a week for at least 12 years assuming you don't go to college, which equates
to nearly another two full years of your life on Earth.
Now you have 50 years left to live.
But you still got to work, and even assuming you have no overtime that's 8 hours a day
for roughly fifty weeks a year, for at least 40 years.
And that's assuming that you're able to retire at a decent age!
Meaning your work effectively takes off another 10 years of your life.
Now you have 40 years to live.
Oh but wait we didn't even talk about traffic!
According to the US Department of Transportation the average one-way commute time in the US
was just a little bit under a half an hour, meaning you've got about an hour of driving
everyday, 5 days a week.
Again assuming you never have to go in on a weekend, that's about 250 hours of driving
a year just for work!
Say goodbye to another year of your life.
Now you have 39 years to live.
Another thing we didn't consider is that you have to get ready to leave the house everyday,
you figure between brushing your teeth, going the bathroom, showering, and getting ready
as well as making sure the kids are ready maybe takes close to an hour on average.
Meaning we've just lost another year.
Down to 38.
Oh, wait you need food to live.
So meal planning, the commute to and from the grocery store, and shopping not to mention
getting it all unpacked and back in the house every week or maybe even every few days depending
on your schedule adds up to about two years of your life.
Only 36 years left.
Then just between eating and drinking every single day.
Say it takes you about a half hour per meal on average, you lose another five years.
You have 31 left.
In between cooking and cleaning and housework or yard work, you spend about another 6 years
of your life.
The balance is now down to 25.
Most parents spend at least a couple of years caring for kids and loved ones not to mention
driving them everywhere.
We're now down to 23.
And something that's especially applicable for my generation is the amount of time we
spend either watching TV playing video games or on social media, according to some recent
articles by Entrepreneur magazine, millennials spend an average of 5.4 hours per day using
some form of social media.
You add that up Across their entire lifetime, and it's nearly 18 years on social media.
That means out of our 79 year lifespan you have 5 to spend with your family or with your
friends.
To play laugh and cry.
To fall in love, to see the world, and to pursue your passions.
So whatever it is you want to do.
Whatever it is you've been holding back on.
Take a moment right now and realize there's no time to waste.
I’m issuing you a challenge.
Picture the thing you want to do in your mind and think of what you have to do to achieve
that goal.
Have you got it?
Okay.
3, 2, 1...
Go.