The Power Of Everyday

We have too much time. I do, you do, and everyone else probably does. The truth is that we don’t know what to do with all the time we have. You don’t believe me? So why aren’t you always working on your most important tasks? I don’t know the answer, but the truth is still that we don’t know what to do with all the time we have.

Ok so, it’s time for another productivity trick today. This one I learned by listening all the time people explaining their theory that if you sleep 1 hour less per day, you’ll save 365 hours of awaking hours in a year. Wow what a big number, actually more than 2 weeks if you do the math. Still, I prefer to sleep 8 to 9 hours per night and enjoy the rest of the day better, but that’s just me.

But that got me thinking, instead of waking up 1 hour earlier every day, why don’t I take 10-15 minutes everyday to do something that I put off because it was so much work to do at once? After a while I thought it was a great ideas and I came up with a list of things I could do:

• By sending an email to someone new every day (5 mins), I will reach 365 people in a year.


• By reading ten minutes while waiting in line every day, I’ll be able to read one book every two weeks, or 24 books in a year.


• By meditating 15 minutes every day, I’ll probably be able to learn to fly in a year


• By doing internet marketing 20 minutes per day, I’ll know at least what works and what doesn’t after a year.


• Or… I could write a book, learn a new language, put some order in my room (ok maybe in 2 years), do some sport and get way more fit, and a lot lot more.

Wow, I made that list in probably 3 minutes, still it shows the power of doing something every day. Of course I can’t do everything in that list, or maybe I could, but I’m not yet a productivity ninja.

Anyway, don’t underestimate how much you can do with your time, and since we are talking about productivity (time is everything), I’ll keep this post short.

Here’s the homework: pick one of your items in your todo list and do something every day until it’s done Mark it as finished and pick something else. Don’t invent new things to do, pick something that you already have to do and stick with it.

Posted on September 08 2009

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