Prioritize Your Life

Time management specialists teach us how to set priorities in the workplace, how to organize those priorities and how to stick to our priorities to get more done. Applying the same principles to our free time is equally important.

There are 168 hours in a week. Of those 168 hours, we spend about 40 of them working (a bit more if you keep the hours I do) and about 4 hours (more depending on traffic) a week in transit to and from our jobs. As a result, we are spending just over one quarter of our lives taking care of workplace business.

We spend another 56 hours a week sleeping, 7 hours grooming, 7 hours eating, leaving 54 hours in our week to do the things we really enjoy!

I am astonished by the efforts spent on managing the work week - just over 25% of our week, while the other 33% of our week, our free time, isn’t managed accordingly. Work seems to prevail and we fail to realize that we have lives beyond work.

Why do we recognize the need to prioritize our work lives and fall short on prioritizing our free time? What priorities have you set for yourself during the 54 hours available each week?

I applaud everyone who makes the commitment to manage time and priorities in the work place. However, do open your eyes to the part of your life that is bigger than work…the 33% of your life that belongs to you. Your happiness IS more important!!!