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The Time That Is Given To Us

Create a copy of this doc to create your own reflection. What will you do with the time that you have remaining?

Kenny Mendes

What's your birthday? click and type →

7/23/1987

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How long do you expect to live?

000

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years

You are
`37.1`
⁠
years old, and have completed
`49.5`
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% of your expected life.

What will you do with the remaining
`51`
⁠
% of your life?

Those
`38`
⁠
years can go by fast.

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Kevin Lavelle wrote an exceptional blog post on Medium about his approach to starting a new year. Please, take a few minutes to read it now. Trust me, it's absolutely worth it.

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In his post, he outlined how quickly time flies by most of us, and we often have less of it than we can process. This document is a simple tool to help you evaluate your own time and build a more clear perspective of how you want to spend the precious time you have left.

Kevin's article borrowed a framework from Tim Urban's 2014 blog post entitled

Your Life in Weeks⁠

. Pause here, and go read that article, too

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Your Life in Weeks — Wait But Why All the weeks in a human life shown on one chart. waitbutwhy.com⁠

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The images below are from Tim's post, and they illustrate the life of someone who lives to be 90 years old (which is rare!).

It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I'm now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We're in the tail end. ー Tim Urban

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Again, if you haven't read both those articles by now, please go read them. For convenience -

here⁠

and

here⁠

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How To Use This Document

Here are a few steps to navigate this doc:

Create a copy of this document.

Take a look at

Years⁠

and see how you are progressing in life. Add special memories and milestones into the table.

Note: The template has examples of my own data in the tables. Please erase those and write in your own memories!

Press this button to clear my data.

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The Time That Is Given To Us

You are 37.1⁠ years old, and have completed 49.5⁠% of your expected life.

What will you do with the remaining 51⁠% of your life?

Those 38⁠ years can go by fast.

How To Use This Document

You are
`37.1`
⁠
years old, and have completed
`49.5`
⁠
% of your expected life.

What will you do with the remaining
`51`
⁠
% of your life?

Those
`38`
⁠
years can go by fast.