What were your biggest time wasters? (DW#529)
Let’s be honest. The vast majority of us have a (sometimes secret) guilty pleasure that we spend more time on than we intend.
So let me start by confessing something. I can be a workaholic. When I am researching, writing or preparing a presentation, I tend to lose track of time and work bleeds into family or leisure time. Recently, however, I have discovered the joys (!) of binge watching Netflix and find it really difficult to stop after watching just one episode of an engaging show. What I am noticing is that while watching a single episode of something can be rejuvenating, relaxing and a good way to wind down the day, watching three episodes in a row is much less so. After an evening of such binge watching, I end up feeling guilty and empty (and much too wired to sleep), and wishing that I had used my time in a much more productive fashion.
What were your biggest time wasters in 2018? Are you aware of how much time you spend on these? And are you okay with this amount of time? How would your life improve if you diverted even 10% - 20% of this time towards achieving goals that matter to you?
For example, let’s assume you watch Netflix for 2 hours a night. If you reduced this by 15 minutes every night and read a good book instead, you would have over 90 hours a year to spend reading. How many books could you read in that amount of time?
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