Side Hustle Building — You Have Enough Time

TL;DR Stop telling yourself you are too busy

Earl Nightingale’s most well-known work is an audio called The Strangest Secret. The strangest secret according to Nightingale is that we become what we think about.

The audio sold over a million copies, unheard of for a spoken-word recording at that time.

Within the audio, Nightingale mentioned something that has stuck with me from the first time I heard it. He said we have 72 hours per week and are neither working nor sleeping.

These 72 hours are free to do with what we choose. I never thought of it like that, but the math certainly works. Most people work 40 hours per week and sleep 56 hours a week. These numbers are not absolute; some work more and sleep less, and vice versa.

But it makes you think, how much time do we waste daily?

If we used those 72 hours wisely, how much further would we be?

Some of you have partners and children, as do I, which takes up some of those 72 hours. I encourage young people to learn how to maximize their 72 hours before adding commitments such as spouses and children.

Still, even if you identified 30 hours a week, what could you do with that time?