§ The time audit · 3 min · no account
The 168
One hundred and sixty-eight hours. Not one man alive gets more. Fill this in the way it really is, not the way you would describe it to a colleague. The leftover is the honest answer to why the thing you keep meaning to do has not happened.
Sleep
hours per night
Work
hours per week, honestly
Commute & errands
hours per week
Phone, feeds & television
hours per day
Undivided family time
hours per day
Training & movement
hours per week
Reading, prayer, silence
hours per week
House, cooking, admin
hours per week
143h
Accounted for
26h
Unaccounted for
50h
Actually yours to spend
You give 21 hours a week to a screen and 11 to the people in your house.
The Road asks for about twenty minutes a morning — roughly 2 hours a week. You have 50. Cutting the screen by half an hour a day returns 4 hours a week.
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A number you close the tab on changes nothing.
A number is not a change. The change is what you do tomorrow morning.
The Compass scores all eight pillars in six minutes and hands you the one to start with. Then six hundred and seventy-two mornings, each with one reading and one act.