Track your time, money, and food for one week by recording every hour in three columns. Most people discover they waste hours on their phone, spend money without thinking, and eat on autopilot. The discomfort of seeing it all written down is the point.
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If you want to be truly disgusted with yourself for a week or so, but at the same time, take a step to profoundly change your life, you're going to need a piece of paper. And this will be good for you, whether you're in business school or just about anyone, career, anything. And what you're going to do is you're going to fold this piece of paper as best you can into three equal parts. And I'm doing that over here. So I'll show you what it's going to look like. It's going to look like this, where you have three even parts like that. And then what you're going to do on one of them is put time. And then in the middle you're going to put money. And then in the last one, you're going to put food. It's going to look something like this. I don't know if you can see it very well. What we're going to do for the next week is we're going to set a timer on our phone for once per hour. So if you wake up at 6am for 7am, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, something like that, and don't make excuses. And we are going to the end of every hour, we're going to write down everything we ate during that hour, everything we spent money on that hour, and how we spent our time that hour. And this will probably be disgusting to you when you first do it, just to see how much time you waste, how many calories and how much food you eat that you didn't even notice, and how much money you're spending that you probably shouldn't be. But it's going to be one of the most profound things because the number or the first step to anything in life in terms of improvement is awareness and time, money and food. Like, that's basically going to be the three most important things that you have to decide. And how you spend your time, how you spend your money, and what food you consume are probably going to be, I would say the three biggest things that are going to have the most, you know, impact on your life. So, you know, it's very easy to go, you know, from 9:00am, I, what did I do? I watched a YouTube video for 20 minutes and then I checked Instagram and then I went to the washroom and then I texted someone, oh, 9 to 10am I didn't do anything. Really? Wow. And you write it down just like this. And again, I don't know how well you can see that, but you're going to write it down and you're going to do this for a week. And a week is very manageable. Just by doing this for about four hours is going to make you probably disgusted with yourself. But how we spend our time is going to be the main difference. It's the only thing that everyone has that's 100 equal. Everyone has 24 hours in a day, everyone has 168 hours in a week. And I believe, I don't want to do that math on camera, it's going to embarrass myself. But everybody has the same amount of time. The more time you spend, you're going to make more money. If you're actually spending this time working and if you track your food, you're going to have more money because you usually spend money on crap food. And you're also going to save time by eating better and you know, not going to snack or doing junk food or any of that kind of stuff. And you're also going to get more time and energy for yourself by eating better food. So these three things, anyone can do it, whether you're in business, at school, in a career, or even, let's say a stay at home mom or something. And you just want to have a better life and you want to make improvements. The first step is always going to be awareness. All you need is a piece of paper and a pen folded up like this. You can keep it in your pocket. Try this for a week and you're going to be startled by how profound the impact will be. You're going to start spending your time better, you're going to be more aware of it and it's naturally going to make an increase in the quality of your life.
