You are about to get 111 hours free this Thanksgiving. Don’t waste them.
This week, you get an amazing gift. No, Ed McMahon won’t be showing up with a humongo check. You won’t have wise men pop in unannounced to drop off gold, fruitcake and myrrh. Instead, you will get the precious gift of time. Time away from work, or school, or even working at a school.
But you don’t just get 1 or 2 hours free. And not just 8 or 24 hours either.
You get a shipload of time.
In fact, you get 111 hours free!
The Math
If you are one of the many who don’t have to work or go to school Thursday through Sunday, your time off starts at 5pm on Wednesday and ends at 8am on Monday.
In between there are 111 hours for you to spend wisely.
You can use it on quality time with friends and family. There is plenty of time for talking, playing, singing, and laughing until liquids sprays our of your nose. And if your friends don’t make you laugh until you leak, you need better friends.
You can invest in your health. Walking, turkey trotting, hiking, or any other calorie burning activity before or after the meal is a great idea.
You can read. You can read a lot in 111 hours. In fact, you could probably read all 1032 blog posts I have written at The Adam Albrecht Blog. You could read my book What Does Your Fortune Cookie Say? Or you could read an important piece of literature, a valuable self-improvement book, the biography of a wildly successful human or a tale of epic human adventure and triumph. But my blog will have more random pop culture references. So I’ve got that going for me. Which is nice.
You can schedule that health checkup, or that therapy session you know you need. You could enroll in a program to stop doing that thing you know you shouldn’t do no more, like Phil Collins said.
You can start working on that master project you have always dreamed of. Or that mini project you couldn’t seem to find time to do, Mickey.
You could plan a vacation. Or book a vacation. Or at least watch National Lampoon’s Vacation.
You could transfer money to savings. Or to that investment account. Or to me.
You could plan a dinner with people you love chewing the fat with.
You could schedule a Zoom with friends or family that you won’t see in real life this holiday. But not if they are no longer in real life. (Zoom hasn’t worked out that technology yet.)
You could plan impromptu in-person get-togethers, right now, over me.
You can play games. Board games. Card games. Football games. Reindeer games. We don’t game enough.
You could start planning your own business. (Not that that’s any of my business.)
You could start filling a notebook with everything you know about a specific topic. That’s a great way to start writing a book.
You could volunteer. Even if you are not in Knoxville.
In fact, you can do just about anything you please.
But please, please, please don’t do nothing, Sabrina.
You can do nothing anytime.
Key Takeaway
You are about to receive the most precious gift of all. The gift of time. 111 hours. A stately sum. Invest it any way you like. But whatever you do, don’t waste it. Because you will never get it back.
If you found something valuable or rewarding to do with your 111 hours, please shoot me a note to let me know what you did at 614–256–2850 or at adam@theweaponry.com. I am always looking for good ideas and success stories.
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+For more of the best life lessons I have learned check out my book, What Does Your Fortune Cookie Say? from Ripples Media.