An Extra 3600s – What Will You Do With Yours?
This weekend, in the USA at least (I know the UK have already done so), it’s time to “Fall Back” an hour as daylight savings for 2009 comes to an end. This is where we get to withdraw the hour we deposited in the time bank at the start of the summer – if only they paid interest on that deposit, oh well…
The question is, “What are you going to do with your extra 3,600 seconds this year?”
Many will take the chance to get some extra sleep, others might choose an extra hour of play on the town. Some might see it as a gift, one they’ve been saving up all summer. The way I think about it, if someone were to deposit $3,600 in your bank account and told you that you had just one hour to spend it, $1 for every second, you might think carefully about how you would use it. I doubt you would buy extra sleep with it (although you might if it’s really that valuable to you). How would you look at 3,600 seconds on the last day of your life if someone offered it to you as a bonus?
The main problem is it comes in the middle of the night when we’re not looking – perhaps they’re hoping we won’t notice and simply snore it away…
But, if we’re creative, maybe we can find ways to use the extra time more wisely. We could stay up that extra hour on Saturday and work on a business plan, a marketing strategy, new product development, educational research – it’s not even as though any of those things are physically demanding. We could create some interesting photographs, explore a new style or subject, paint, read, learn, write… the list is limited only by our imagination…
If this sounds like too much work, think of all the occasions we’ve used the excuse “I didn’t have the time” or that we’ve told someone “if only I had the time I would…”
Imagine the amazing things Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Zig Ziglar, Steve Jobs and all the other successful folks in the world could achieve with an extra 3,600 seconds…
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