First of all, people spend half of their 24 hours a day sleeping, housework and eating. The average sleep time per day is 7.5 hours, which is close to the requirement of 8 hours per day. The average time spent on housework, private affairs and breakfast and dinner is about 4 hours a day. Among them, the time for cooking and tidying up the dishes is about 1 hour. The total time of two meals is 1 hour, a little more. On weekends, people's eating time will increase to 1 hour for about 20 minutes. Cooking time will also increase slightly.
In addition, there are obvious gender differences in housework time. Usually, in a family, the time for men to cook is only about 47 minutes, while the time for women to cook is about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Nearly half an hour more than men, indicating that most housewives cook more. At the same time, husbands who often cook and pack things in the family account for 43% of men. Wives who often cook and clean account for 69% of women. Or it can be explained that most families mainly do housework by wives.
From these data, we can also know that if you don't fire yourself and go out to eat, it's not worth waiting for dinner for more than two hours every day on average.
These are all the time spent in life, so what about the time spent at work? In the United States, most people work more than 65,438+00 hours, so 65,438+02 hours a day are deducted from sleeping and housework, and 65,438+00 hours are deducted from work. There is little time at the end of the day, no more than two hours.
On the basis of the above data, everyone spends an average of 4 hours on mobile phones every day, including weekends. If the time spent sleeping and doing housework is deducted, that is to say, the remaining time people spend on their mobile phones is 1/3. The data shows that people spend about 65%~70% of their time on mobile phones. That is to say, it took about 2 hours and 40 minutes on social software, including WeChat. Wapes application. chat with other software. There are social platforms like Tik Tok, but checking emails and replying emails are not included. These four hours of mobile phone use time do not include listening to music and news files, only counting the time you use the screen. If you listen to music or study during exercise, it doesn't count, so in fact, everyone has to use mobile phones for more than four hours every day.
If further broken down, more than half of the time on social media is spent chatting. 1/3 is spent on watching videos, and less than 1/6 is spent on sharing pictures and own short videos. Only about 5% of the time is spent on Twitter and Weibo, which are closer to the news.
Compared with the time spent on mobile phones, people spend only 2.5 hours on the computer every day on average. And the data also includes engineers who sit in front of the computer for seven or eight hours every day. Judging from this data, many people actually don't use computers very much today.
If we cut the time spent on mobile phones by half, from 4 hours to 2 hours. It's equivalent to doubling your spare time. If you want to learn something and improve your skills, you can basically spend two years a year.
According to a survey by the U.S. Government Statistics Bureau, people aged 15-44 spend only 10 minutes reading books, newspapers and magazines every day. Almost negligible, but retirees over 75 spend 45 minutes on this.
There are two obvious differences. The first is that they work longer hours every day. It will increase to about 12 hour, two hours more than the average data, but their commuting time is also less than the data.
The second difference is that people in the control group exercise longer every week, and most people can exercise for an hour on average every day. Including warm-up time, in contrast, the time spent watching the screen is shorter, about an hour less than the per capita data. As for doing housework, cooking and chores, although the time is relatively less, it is not much different from the average data.
To sum up, the difference in time management between people with better development in the workplace and ordinary people is actually about two hours. In other words, if you can change some living habits through time management, you can use these two hours in a more productive and creative way. Your life may change a lot.
An American writer made a very specific suggestion, spending four 15 minutes every day to do four small things. In a year, you will be completely different from now. These four little things can be all kinds of things. He cited six examples that were easy to do.
Spend 15 minutes learning a foreign language every day;
Spend 15 minutes writing a diary every day;
Spend 15 minutes reading five pages every day;
Spend 15 minutes to take care of the garden and plant flowers and grass every day;
Spend 15 minutes chatting with children every day;
Spend 15 minutes meditating or practicing yoga every day.
In fact, there are many such small things. You can do the little things in your life according to your own situation.
Based on the above data, I began to take stock of where my time was spent. And benchmark the time of successful people to see which plans can continue to optimize iterations.
The following is my current daily routine:
Practice writing for 20 minutes every day;
Copy ancient books every day 15 minutes;
Daily exercise, skipping rope plus relaxation and warm-up time is about 45 minutes (need to be increased);
Write a PPT every day, 15 minutes;
Listen to a book for about 20 minutes every day;
Read at least 1 hour every day;
You can listen to the column 1 hour at twice the speed every day (it needs to be increased to ensure the over-the-ear rate);
If you think my handwriting is not bad, I usually speak with a little cultural background. It comes from practicing calligraphy and copying ancient books every day, which is obviously the result of the change of 15 minutes every day mentioned above.
In order to better benchmark successful people, I further adjusted my usage time on my mobile phone and uninstalled Tik Tok app. Reject any useless mobile phone screen.
At the same time, in order to ensure a sunny and healthy life, I am going to develop my new skill-learning to cook, so as to cook a good dish for my family during the Spring Festival this year.
In addition, I especially want to say, no matter how you adjust your plan, where did you spend your time? It is best to stick to long-term doctrine. So if you want to stick to long-term, you must abide by one principle, that is, love what you are doing from your heart. If a person wants to go far, he should enjoy the process of walking, not bite his teeth by perseverance. Perseverance alone is not far away. Over time, people will collapse. So choose what you love and love what you choose. Go on firmly.