Blowing Your Mind With Facts About Time

Mind=Blown

I am approaching this in two ways. First, as a professional I've conducted almost 2,000 sessions in two years, and as you can imagine, I start to see patterns. So I'll give some facts as it related to these patterns, as well as facts I have collected as I go.

Then I'll give some facts about time in general that will make you stop to think for a moment. I hope this is useful.

-Out of 1,841 sessions in two years (by the end of April), 1,703 reported being busy as either a main stressor or in top 3.

-80% of corporate employees dread work on Monday. By Friday, it's about 60%.

-80% of the workday is reported to have "little" or no value.

-95% of the things we fear will occur, do not occur.

-70% of American workers desire to own their own business.

-75% of American workers complain that they are tired.

-Most people spend their days on what I call "fluff" time. In a meeting for example, most have them merely because it's on the schedule. But if you widdle productive time down from an hour to only the time it takes to address needs, it's about 10 minutes.

-9 or 10 report daydreaming during meetings.

Often, when I have given a client tasks, there are those that complete them and those that offer excuses. I have found that many of the people who complete the tasks as actually busier than those who do not.

I have also found that of those who did not complete tasks, they are likely to find a complaint in every thing they do.

For example, I recently worked with a lady who did not do what she agreed, because a child had to go to a sporting event and the garage needed cleaning.

My response: "Do you think things will be different a day, week, month, or year from now?" No, they will not. At first, we must let things go and CHOOSE how to spend our time.

This is not to say that we can't spend time doing more mundane tasks like cleaning the bathroom. This is to say that we must be a certain mental space.

Like I said, many who were successful were busier than those who made excuses. "A project tends to expand to the time allocated for it." The people who are successful live in the "HOW" mental space.

It's not about whether something can or can't be done, or what else needs to be done, or how much other crap you have to do. It's about HOW you are going to make it happen.

The successful figure out how no matter what their life situation is, which is always ever just a story of sh** you have to do of relative little importance.







Other interesting time facts related to time:

-Cleopatra lived closer to the building of Pizza Hut than the pyramids.

-The first pyramids were built while the woolly mammoth was still alive. (While most mammoths died out long before civilizations arose, a small populations survived until 1650 BC. By that point, Egypt was halfway through its empire, and the Giza Pyramids were already 1000 years old.)

-There was more time between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than between the Tyrannosaurus Rex and you. (The Stegosaurus lived ~150 million years ago, while the T-Rex lived only ~65 million years ago. Practically yesterday.)

-If you’re over 45, the world population has doubled in your lifetime.

-If the history of Earth were compressed to a single year, modern humans would appear on December 31st at about 11:58pm. This makes you feel small, doesn't it?! Well, so are your worries...