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The Time That Is Given To Us
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?
What's your birthday? click and type →
7/23/1987
How long do you expect to live? years
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75You are 36.2 years old, and have completed 48.3% of your expected life.
36.2
48.3
What will you do with the remaining 52% of your life?
52
Those 39 years can go by fast.
39
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.
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 . Pause here, and go read that article, too
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!).
Again, if you haven't read both those articles by now, please go read them. For convenience -
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