How to Balance Making Money, Caring for Family, while having time to Take Care of Yourself? P1

Part 1/3: Changing Your Time Management Mindset – Unlocking Limitless Power

We often think of time as simple addition: 24 hours a day, divided into 8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, and 8 hours for everything else. But this mindset can make us feel like there’s never enough time for everything. However, if you shift your perspective from thinking about time as addition to multiplication, you’ll find that life opens up endless opportunities.

Imagine you have 50 years of healthy, productive living. If you spend just 30 minutes a day on something, consistently in 50 years —whether learning, exercising, or taking care of your health—how much time that will accumulate?

• 30 minutes a day for 50 years equals:
  • 18,250 days you repeat the task.
  • 219,000 hours in time you spend sharpening the same skill. 

If you extend your healthy life beyond 50 years, this time will grow even more.

The Power of the Compound Effect

If you constantly feel busy and think, “I don’t have time,” it may be because you’re stuck in the addition mindset. Try changing your mindset and viewing time as a compound multiplier. When you do something small every day, even if it's just for 30 minutes, over time, that action will yield tremendous results.

Examples of Using 30 Minutes a Day to Change Your Life:

• Building wealth: Spend 30 minutes a day learning about investing or developing financial skills, and over 50 years, you’ll have the chance to create a significant financial foundation from the knowledge and experience you accumulate.

• Starting a business: Dedicate 30 minutes a day to working on your business idea, and in 50 years, you’ll have invested hundreds of thousands of hours into your career, leading to extraordinary achievements.

• Teaching your child to read: Spend 30 minutes reading with your child daily for the first 18 years of their life, and you’ll develop their language and cognitive skills.

• Exercise: Just 30 minutes of exercise daily will maintain your health and energy throughout your entire life.

• Morning Lemon Water: Imagine drinking 365 glasses of lemon water a year. Over 50 years, that’s more than 18,000 glasses, contributing to a healthier and more balanced body every day.

Mindset Determines Power

The mind is the most powerful tool humans have. By changing your mindset and viewing time as a compound multiplier, you open endless opportunities in life. However, the most important thing is that you must believe in this change. Once you decide to shift your mindset, it will be a life-changing transformation.

Think about committing daily: If you decide to run, it’s not just about running for one day; it’s about committing to running every day for the rest of your life. If you decide to read with your child, it’s about committing to reading with them for 18 years. And if you decide to drink lemon water every morning, it’s about 365 glasses of lemon water a year—creating a habit that never fades.

Of course, there will be days when you feel tired and miss your commitment. But missing one or two days won’t change the entire journey. What matters is your decision to act every day, and that decision will create a powerful compound effect, like a snowball that grows larger and larger.

Conclusion

Time isn’t just 24 hours a day; it’s the accumulation of small actions repeated daily. When you shift your mindset and see time as a multiplier, you’ll realize you have enough time to achieve any goal in life. Start today, and you’ll witness a magical transformation in your life!

This Blog is part of our SustainiHealth series. Health is the key to everything else as we can't pour from an empty cup. Future start with change in Health, Health start with change in Habits, whatever you want to do, start make the changes today.