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How would you use 2 extra hours each week?

If we take it as read that most of us have more things to do each day than we have hours to do them, consider this hypothetical: if you had two extra hours each week to use as you liked, how would you use them?

No time travel, assumed lottery wins, or unassisted human flight allowed; put simply, to what use would you apply an extra 120 minutes every week?

Me? I think I'd firewall the time to work toward a new skill. I've wanted to learn Ruby on Rails and basic Cantonese for a while now, so I think I'd use it for one of those. I definitely wouldn't use it to watch TV. I hope.

You?

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Read

I know it sounds so sad but I am so busy (two jobs, full time single dad, upcoming wedding, refinishing one house, selling another) that I never have time to read books. I am lucky to even find a few minutes before I collapse from sheer exhaustion every night just to read a single magazine article.

Two extra hours would be gift from the gods.

 
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