This time of year all the magazines are full of ideas on how much better your life would be if you "just put aside an extra half an hour a day!" to do whatever it is they suggest. So I thought I'd have a bit of a tot up and see how much time a perfect life actually takes;
Half an hour to cook a nutritious meal for the family ( x 3 ) - 1 hr 30 mins
An hours exercise a day to stay healthy - 1 hr
30 minutes "me time" for those little grooming jobs (nails/eyebrows etc) - 30 mins
Ideal amount of sleep - 7 hrs
If you do an hour and a half housework every day you'll stay on top of it - 1hr 30 mins
(some of this is suggested management time for a law practice)
Chargable hours per day target - 7 hrs
Suggested budget for marketing hours per day for a new practice - 2hrs
Keeping on top of the accounts - 30 mins
That's 21 hours a day, and I haven't had a shower, or driven to the gym or eaten anything myself yet! Nor does it allow for going to the post office or the shops or saying hello to anyone!
No wonder I feel as if I am permanently behind - thank goodness I don't have to commute!
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
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8 comments:
What is this life is full of care,
We cannot shop for underwear,
No time to fondle beneath a blouse,
Or stare at sexy sheep and cows.
(anon' Welsh unemployed person)
Sexy sheep???? Playing up to the stereotype a bit there Tick! And what's this unemployed person???
I don't know why I said unemployed. Didn't think it through.
Normally, I start a poem with the punch line, but in this case I just went for it and needed a rhyme for blouse
surely you meant a hour and a half a housework a week not day????
surely you meant a hour and a half a housework a week not day????
surely you meant a hour and a half a housework a week not day????
No - day
With this lot there is three hours ironing a week, and cleaning the bathrooms takes an hour and a half!!
Here's yet another reason not to do housework. Hurrah!
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