1 Hour a day = Nine 40-hour Workweeks a Year
I recently read an article provided by the website of John Assaraf, author of Having It All. If you dedicated 1 hour a day to anything; from working out, studying Spanish, writing, or practicing visualization and meditation, you can seriously become kick ass at whatever it is you spend that hour doing.
Honestly, an hour is not much to invest towards anything you would like to start, study, or do in life. Never think little of an hour, or even dare to waste one. Sure one hour of a day doesn’t seem to account for much, but over the course of one year, imagine dedicating 9 40 hour workweeks to studying the brain or learning the guitar. You will become great, definitely well above “average”. The ROI of one hour a day can potentially be HUGE.
I plan to dedicate at least one hour a day to learning something new or being productive, not busy, in a task that will bring me closer to my goals. If needed to, you can mix it up monthly too. Dedicate 2 months to this, start a new activity the following months, etc.
This is great for full time students like me. Of course, like Tim Ferriss, I will dedicated months at a time to traveling abroad and studying or learning a new hobby. But for now, I will use this concept as efficiently as possible.
Imagine the hobbies you could learn and pick up and become great at with this simple concept. If you ever wanted to learn or practice a new thing, what would it be?
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Learning languages is definately a great idea.
I’m going to Europe in July, so I have decided to learn Spanish. It would be nice to know how to order sangria & paela natively, to tell a woman that she is beautiful and avoid a blood vendetta due to mistakenly calling someones mother a strumpet.
Have been using Mango Languages but LiveMocha seems pretty good too. Each lesson is about 30 minutes and very practical.
Good luck!
Ronnie,
The math in this post was a bit much for my early=AM, pre-coffee brain to handle; once I digested the content a bit more, however, I was blown away.
9 40-hour Workweeks… that sounds to me like it would be an excellent title of the book. I realize that Tim Ferriss’ lifestyle-design ideology is very similar to this, but if memory serves, he never breaks down the gains you can make with such simple dedication.
Keep up the good work!
Also, John: Going to Spain? Excellent decision. For some astounding, inexpensive paella, there is a nation-wide chain of restaurants called “Café y Té” — I know, at least, the Valencia store has amazing dishes.
I just bought a hammock off ebay for around 30 bucks. Strung it out between two palm trees in my back yard. Now I have no reason not to spend more time reading (learning, I only read non-fiction).
After graduating college with a graphics degree, I missed out on much of the important topics, economics, religion, business start-ups, venture capital, investing, etc. I have made it my mission (1 hour a day) to continue my lifelong learning and read new ideas from smart people. I find this MUCH more engaging than cable TV. I even checked out a book about string theory. OK, that one almost made my head explode but I gave it a shot.
My next goal is video. I bought a new Sony HD mini cam with water housing. I figured I have spent two years in Maui with nothing to show for it. Better start capturing it all. Stay tuned….
Might have already read it, but http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html provides a great insight into the ways we can use our time.
I can’t remember where I read it, but 10,000 hours of practice at anything can make you a prodigy. They study looked at musicians but the researchers thought it would be reasonable that finding over to other specialities. If you think about your “innate” talents, you probably are spending considerable time honing them without every consciously deciding to work on that gift. Thus, we all hit the 10,000 hour mark doing something.