We as humans are not suppose to spend the majority of our lives working 8-12 hours a day, 5-6 days a week.
Our lives are short!
If you are fortunate enough, you will live until 80. Is it enough? 80 years of living? Well, it's not really 80 years because first 20 years of your live, you are a child and most likely live with your parents which means that you can't do about 90% of stuff that you would like to do and you probably don't even remember first 10-15 years of your life.
Now there is 60 years of your life left. Hmm..let me think, due to spreading of lifestyle diseases, you won't probably fully live last 10 years of your life because of dementia, Alzheimer, some kind of cancer, diabetes, heart disease etc..the list is really long. You might end up lying on the bed or in better case just having limited movement.
Now we have 50 years of your life. 50 years is OK, it is enough. Well, you also have to sleep...you probably sleep about 8 hours a day, which is 2920 hours per year and that's about 1/3 of your life. 2/3 of 50 is about 33 years.
Is 33 years enough for living? Also subtract the 1.5 year spent in the bathroom and 2.5 years of cooking (from my point of view are these unpleasant activities).
So now we have 29 years of living. I haven't talked about work yet, have I? There are people who work 8-12 hours a day, 5-6 days a week. So let's say 10 hours per day, 5.5 days a week in average that's 2860 hours per year and that's another 1/3 of your life.
In the end, the average person, who is stuck in the rat race has about 19 years of life left for doing things that he or she loves. I would say it's even less, but I already feel depressed and don't want to subtract any more years.
19 years is NOT enough! Come on guys, increase that number, I know you can!
- Take care of your health.
You can prevent most of the lifestyle diseases by exercising daily, eating healthy and avoiding stress. - Escape the rat race.
You have endless options in today's world. You can literally do anything, you just have to pursuit it. Make a plan - educate yourself – execute the plan. If you won't succeed for the first time, don't give up! Try again, maybe with different plan this time.
For those, who are interested in educating themselves in personal growth, business or investing, I recommend following books and any other books from same authors:
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason
Sources:
http://www.distractify.com/old-school/2015/01/07/astounding-facts-about-how-we-actually-spend-our-time-1197818577
http://www.scotsman.com/news/how-long-do-we-spend-in-bathroom-1-189-years-1-1072528
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_disease
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
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