Where Does The Time Go?
Where does the time go? The last blog entry was made on 9/11 – a month ago! With two authors you would think that entries to this journal would be more frequent. Just the other day we raked leaves, ate Thanksgiving, opened Christmas gifts… Now we get to do all this all over again. And that’s the subject of today’s blog.
We probably are too busy and we aren’t making the best use of the spare time we have. According to Professor John Robinson, University of Maryland, the average American spends:
7.9 hrs each day sleeping 5.5 hrs working 2.3 hrs watching TV
1 hr eating 49 minutes washing & grooming 47 minutes visiting (by phone and in person) 10 minutes relaxing and thinking 7 minutes on religious practice
Okay, now that I have your attention let’s review. The 5.5 hours we use working pays for everything else! Could it be that’s why we can’t make ends meet? It seems that we are generally lazy! 2.3 hours watching TV? Yeah! I think he is right – I had to complete Monday Night Football between Cowboys and Bills – a 3 hr game!
What is more troubling is the 10 minutes we spend relaxing and thinking and the 7 minutes on religious practice! No wonder only very few people are featured in CNBC’s the Big Idea and our commitment to the Great Commission (Matt 28:19) has dwindled.
So, What (Am I) are you going to do to free up more time?
“When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future”. Ecc 7:14
5 comments:
That hibernation was too long. It's about time you came out.
Lets see how I spend my time. 7 -8 hrs sleeping. 1 hr preparing myself and kids (am + pm), 30 min TV, 1 -2 hrs online, 1 hr house chores, < 30 min religious practice, 9 hrs at work, 1 hr reading, 2 hrs fudging about, 1 hr commute (am + pm).
Come weekend and everything changes.
Time just flew! I'll need to get back to blogging. It helps unloading our minds. Looks like you have a good structure with your time.
Kim,
You are right - with two authors you would think.....yeah, I am guiltly as charged! I think I need a life coach for my use of time(there seems to be a life coach for everything these days so there might just be one out there to help me figure out where my time goes). I notice that online activities have not been figured into this time-breakdown. Emailing, surfing, chatting,etc. take up a chunk of time too. I have just been shocked to realise that my time use is very unproportional! So on to reclaiming and readjusting my time.
This reminds me. I once took a time management course. I don't think it was very helpful cause I can't put my finger onto anything that I learnt during the several sessions that I attended.
I'm glad I up on IM and cut down on the telephone. The two were time killers.
Jabi,
The time allotment was retrieved on a study done in 2005. You are right, online activities take quite a bit of time. Isn't this why snarfing on computers is disallowed during work hours?
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