How profound would your life be if you truncated fluff from your daily schedule and replaced it with actions that matter?
Let’s say this is a prototypical weekday schedule for many American millenials:
6am-7am – Workout
7am-8am – Get ready for work
8am-5pm – Work
5pm-6pm – Eat
6pm-7pm – Browse internet, facebook, chat with friends
7pm-9pm – Netflix, Hulu, HBOGo, etc…
9pm-10pm – Get ready for bed, various tasks
10pm – Go to sleep.
This is pretty close to typical for many people in my age group. It’s not a bad day – and let me make it clear that I am not against this – but what’s the point?
“Wake, eat, work, eat, work, eat, rest, sleep, repeat.” Is that what we hope others remember of us long after we’re gone? Where is the impact on the world?
What if life could have more purpose by rearranging some things and prioritizing a more profound focus on others?
6am-7am – Workout
7am-8am – Get ready for work
8am-5pm – Work
5pm-6pm – Eat
6pm-7pm – Volunteer somewhere
7pm-8pm – Journal/meditate/pray/blog about your volunteer experience
8pm-9pm – Decompression time. Netflix, book, whatever.
9pm – 9:30pm – Intentional time to connect with a loved one
9:30pm -10pm – Get ready for bed
10pm – Sleep
In an ideal world, consider this schedule. A person gives 1-2 hours a day towards bettering others. There is still self-care, still introvert time, and still time to let the brain rest…
Imagine a world where we each invested 1 hour a day in improving each other.
Each person would give 7 hours a week, 365 hours a year to others.
A town of 50,000 people would give 350,000 hours a week to each other!
How would this effect society? Politics? Socio-economic divide? Poverty? Depression? Mental and physical health?
Is this commitment possible? What do you think? Or am I just one more idealist millennial blogger, dreaming big and believing too much in the goodness of others?
A nice call to action
thanks man 🙂