What a year, it's been one of those that seemed to only take a month. But yet, so much has happened in that short amount of time.
Thinking about a year, it's only 365 days.
There are 8760 hours in the year.
Let's break that down for a second
Sleep: 3.285 hours (avg 9 hours a day)
Working days: 2088 hours of work
3387 hours left. These are generally the hours you can use for other things, but let's take some elements out that you will need to do every day.
Eating: 1,5 hours a day. This includes cleaning up and breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Totals to 547,50 hours a year.
Workout: 5 days a week 1 hour, either running, exercise, or hiking. 260 hours
Showering and self-care: (avg 1 hour a day) = 365 hours a year.
Then there are certain things we'll have to take into account, and we can average this for a year.
- shopping
- errands
- home up-keeping
- personal admin stuff
Let's say this takes 1,5 hours a day on average, totaling 547,5 hours a year.
1.667 hours a year left for all the other stuff.
This is only 19% of your time in the entire year! 🤯
Other stuff being:
- time with your friends, partner, family.
- side projects
- vacations
- weekend trips
- Netflix
This means you will have to use this time wisely.
I've written about hacking your time before and will keep saying this.
It's essential to define what you want to spend your time on!
Only you can make those changes.
I love to hear people say, I don't know how you write every day. I wouldn't have the time for that.
Yet people have the time to binge-watch a complete Netflix show in a weekend.
And some weekends, that person is me, but I want my limited "free" time to be worth my while most of the time.
In 2021 I used roughly 400 hours of my free time to work on my blog.
You might think, wow, that's a lot, but it's actually less time a day than I spend on eating.
Taking that into perspective, you could form a habit, like eating or showering.
But make this new habit a productive one, like working on your side project or writing a blog.
What did you achieve in your 19% time
I know you are all eager to find this out!
So you have 19% time left per year. What did you achieve?
Let me break this down into categories because a lot has happened in this short time frame.
Personal wins
- Got married to the most beautiful wife ❤️
- Our puppy got 2 new dog training certificates
- Got to finally go on a holiday with my wife (and we got stuck there 😂)
- Met a lot of inspiring people
Professional wins
- Got a new job at daily.dev!
- Learned a ton of things!
- Created some game-changing projects
Blog wins
- Hit 800+ newsletter subscribers!
- 250K users on my domain
- 440K views on dev.to
- 6015 followers on dev.to
- Crossed 100K views on Hashnode
- Won 1000$ for an open-source project
- Published 355 articles
- Got a lot of awesome features for my articles
- Been part of many live streams and spaces
- Spoke as a speaker for Hashnode
- Hit 5500+ followers on Twitter
I can't even tell you how much these wins mean to me, realizing this was all achieved in only 19% of my time! 🤯
I don't know about you, but I plan to use my 19% time even better in 2022.
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Top comments (11)
Thanks for sharing! I got more motivated to use my time in a more useful way! I started to be mindful of my time by being more organized. I use task management software to manage my professional and personal tasks. So far, it's been great. I'm using Todoist and Quire.
Using tools can definitely help, thanks for sharing the ones that work for you 🙏
Am I the only person who is thinking about who is throwing the "feathers" from the sky (definitely not the photographer) in the wedding photo? 😸
Haha 😂
It was the assistant photographer actually 👀
now I know!
Nice post, what do you use for the donut chart? this can help me a lot ❤️
I actually made this on in Canva 🤯
Not often I say something is inspiring but…this article is inspiring. ❤️
As someone looking to use my 19% more effectively this year this was a great read!
Congrats on getting married btw, didn’t know that! ❤️🎉🍻
I look forward to another 365 amazing articles this year and I just want to say that your daily blogging inspired me to do the same (write for my blog daily, not release every day though!)
Have a great year Chris! ❤️
Wow, this means a lot coming from you. It really does!
I look up to your professionalism in writing.
It's all about forming habits, so writing daily is an impressive habit. It's just as good as releasing daily. (if not better)
Wow that is fantastic, so many views and such a large and growing community behind you.
Very happy with what I've achieved in one year.
And even more grateful for everyone supporting me on this journey