Every week you are given 168 hours to work with, or roughly 10,000 minutes. How you spend them determine everything about you and your well being. Analyze your life like a spreadsheet and you can find extra minutes, even hours to have back.

lets start with Sleep, I’m not a doctor but the doctors say we need 8 hours of good sleep per day.
So 64 hours per week go to sleep, leaving us with 104 hours.

if you have a normal 40 hour a week job, then that drops you to 64 hours

2 hours per day, 14 hours per week for lunch, dinner, snacks, showers, bathroom breaks.

Here we stand at roughly 50 hours of free time left for the week, as long as your single and without children.

Of course this a crude layout of time, hours and hours will be sucked away by other things including internet surfing, tv, driving, social time, etc …

but once you figure out where your time is going, you can manage it a lot better.

lets say you spend 45 minutes a day driving to and from work, head over to Google Maps, plot your daily commute and look for a faster route. A route with more right turns will take less time as you will be stopped at less red lights.

Another way to save time is RSS readers. I have spent a lot of time watching the way people surf the web and the biggest waste of time is their news reading. Most people don’t even bookmark their reading sites, they type them in the address bar or google them. A RSS reader cuts down on ALL of that. Most all websites offer an RSS or XML feed of their streaming content. An RSS reader aggregates all your stories for easy reading.

below is a shot of one of my RSS reader, simple and time-saving as I scan headlines and not visit each site individually.

using an RSS reader is a definite time saver, I scan headlines quicker using a reader than I do using my browser. There are lots of FREE RSS reader for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, just about any platform you can think of.

My Mac OS RSS reader of choice is NetNewsWire, if I am mobile  I use Google Reader.

Start organizing your time today, start with this simple suggestions.