Do the math: if you work for 50 years (ages 20 to 70), work the expected 40-hour week (which few of us do), and take the standard North American 2 weeks of vacation, you end up with the following equation:
50 years x 40 Hours x 50 weeks = 100,000 Hours
By way of comparison, if you sleep 7 hours a night and live to the ripe old age of 80, you will spend 200,000 hours sleeping.
That means that “working” is the second biggest chunk of your life — by far — and that you will, in effect, spend 1 hour working for every 2 hours you sleep.
The headline: work is a HUGE part of our lives. So do you want to spend so many hours doing something you don’t find meaning in?
In the history of human civilization, it’s never been easier to live a fulfilled life. The formula is simple: love what you do, or do what you love.
We owe it to ourselves to identify our passions, purpose, and superpowers and then build a way to earn a paycheck around them.
If you suffer the “Sunday Scaries,” spend a lot of time clock-watching at the office or lack a sense of well-being through your work, don’t settle.
Reinvent yourself.
Life is too long not to love what we do.
