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How would you use 2 extra hours each week?
Merlin Also | Jan 31 2006
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? 12 Comments
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As a work-at-home writer I...Submitted by pooks on February 1, 2006 - 6:28pm.
As a work-at-home writer I have too much time that I waste so I'm in the enviable position of not feeling like I don't have "time." In my case it's a matter of not wasting it. I do feel like I've reclaimed time, though. I spend a lot of time driving and have discovered I love listening to audiobooks, plus I've started learning Italian via audio lessons I got from audible. But if I honestly wanted to, I wouldn't have any trouble finding two hours to do something I wanted to do. Okay, here you go. When time WAS an issue, I would have felt like I'd had a weekly vacation if I could have gone to a movie every week, and followed it up with a smart conversation about said movie. » POSTED IN:
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