To accomplish more of your personal goals, whether
writing, reading, painting, participating in sports, or
exercising, you can start by thinking of giving yourself
more time in small amounts and forgetting about trying to
give the world all your time.
Consider the importance of a 15-minute block of time
a day to do something meaningful for yourself. Those
“extra” 15 minutes a day would amount to 105 minutes, or
1 3/4 hours a week. If you continue squeezing out those 15
minutes a day, they would equal more than 7 hours a month
and more than 91 hours a year. What could you accomplish
with your “extra” 91 hours per year?
You could have jogged approximately 350 miles in that
year, read approximately 10 new books, or taken a course.
You could have prepared for an entirely new field of work
or a great new hobby.
It’s a lot easier than you think to capture these valuable
15 minutes a day. How you use your time determines what
you accomplish in life.
If you allow eight hours sleeping, you are left with 16
hours for working and thinking. And of these 16 hours,
you have to allow time for travel, eating, and socializing.
If budgeted properly, you can squeeze out that extra 15
minutes a day that you can call “your time.”
Suppose you have been given a $10,000.00 fee as a “time
consultant” whose job it is to find those extra 15 minutes
every day that can be your time. For the $10,000.00, you
can start to write down the wasted minutes. Where are the
wasted minutes every day?
Here are some ideas: Can you take a more direct route
to work that would give you extra time? Can you take 15
minutes less for lunch? Can you get up 15 minutes earlier to
accomplish something? Can you have a lighter dinner that
would free up those 15 extra minutes at night?
Once you figure out how to capture that little block of
time, you can write the findings down and make 10 copies
of how you will always give yourself an extra 15 minutes
per day. You can be persistent in finding those extra 15
minutes, so you can keep reminding yourself that these are
your “new” minutes for you to accomplish something new.
The second step requires that you write down what you
want to accomplish in those 15 minutes.
A good habit will take approximately 20 days to
form. Your new block of time will change your life, if you
accomplish something greater in those 15 minutes!

If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however
measured or far away.
–Henry David Thoreau
Author/Naturalist
(1817-1862)

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