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7 Crazy Stats About How We Spend Our Time & How We Can Fix Them
Time. It’s undoubtedly our most precious resource. It’s the one resource that everyday -aside from the day we are born and the day we die -we all get an equal amount of. Many factors including, but not limited to our geographic location, socioeconomic status, age, level of responsibility and values all play a role in how we choose to spend this resource daily.
As I outlined in a previous article based off of a popular YouTube video, we are given 86,400 seconds to work with daily. 86,400 seconds that we often take for granted, with the majority of it being spent daily on things that we barely give much conscious attention to.
Here are 7 surprising statistics that show on average where many of us spend a good chunk of our time, and some simple ways to improve or correct them:
1. We spend 38 hours per year stuck in traffic
According to the Texas A&M annual mobility study the average American spends 38 hours per year sitting in traffic. That number jumps drastically to over 60 hours a year in certain heavily populated metropolitan cities like D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco. Those numbers may not seem overwhelming but when you equivocate to the fact that most of us work a 40-hour work week, we essentially spend an entire week of work sitting in our car. (1)
Simple Improvement: Assuming you can’t immediately change your driving needs, look to make the most of the time you do spend in your car. Listen to an audiobook or at the very least play some of your favourite music, find a way to incorporate a passion or some expansive thinking into your daily commute.
2. We spend 11 hours per day with some form of digital media
A 2013 analysis revealed that the average American spends 11 hours a day engaged with some form of digital media. (2) Whether it be your phone, the television or your computer, were spending just under half of every day on an electronic device. As connective and expansive as digital media can be it’s certainly not something any of us should be dedicating that much of our time to.
Simple Improvement: Challenge yourself to spend time either or your own or with loved ones completely disconnected from all forms of digital media. Talk a walk, talk, meditate, do anything just to give your mind and body a break from the digital overload.
3. Women spend nearly one year (287 days) of their life deciding what to wear
Clothing company Matalan, conducted a survey of nearly 2500 women between the ages of 16 and 60, to determine the average amount of time spent picking out their wardrobe for various occasions. The results averaged out to an astonishing 287 days, that’s 6888 hours spent picking out clothes. (3) Our clothing certainly can play a role in how we feel and present ourselves but this certainly does say something about how much of a stranglehold consumerism has on us.
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Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/01/7-crazy-stats-about-how-we-spend-our-time-how-we-can-fix-them/
