One step to make a habit stick

✅ Today’s tip: To turn your big goal into a regular practice, calculate your hours per year.

Here’s a helpful perspective shift: Instead of “I better finally run that marathon I keep talking about,” or whatever your marathon is, think about the number of hours you’ll spend working toward that goal. The time-management guru Laura Vanderkam estimates that—assuming eight hours of work and eight hours of sleep each day—each of us has somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 free hours per year, depending on caregiving and other responsibilities.

That’s right — even if you’re really busy, you probably have at least 1,000 hours. Spend them in a way you can feel good about.

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