Imagine what your life would be like if you had an extra 6 hours and 24 minutes extra in your day? Think about it for a moment…
Chances are you’ll be thinking about how you finally can have some time for yourself because you have prioritised others needs above your own. But the reality is that your decision to not care for yourself first is costing you your health and it is costing you your time…and lots of it!
So delaying caring for yourself because you don’t have the time to is costing you time! It is one of the reasons why you don’t have any time for yourself.
The research into the affects of poor health and lifestyle are showing that your current health and lifestyle could be causing you to waste up to 40% of your day! Living an unhealthy and stressed out lifestyle is like trying to cut wood with a blunt axe. No wonder you are pressed for time!
If you don’t sharpen your saw by improving your health and lifestyle you can waste up to 40% of your life!
Research published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine revealed that poor health and lifestyle causes the average worker to lose 9 days in absenteeism and up to 91 days of lost productivity (presenteeism) per year. Presenteeism refers to the loss of productivity that occurs when you may be physically at work but you’re not really there in spirit. We’ve all had those days!
If you apply that loss of productivity to your daily life it means that poor health and lifestyle is costing you 6 hours and 24 minutes each day. That’s 40% of your waking day!
Being stressed or anxious that reduces your productivity by 13% which equates to 2 hours and 8 minutes per day.
If you are obese your daily productivity drops by 14% which means you waste 2 hours and 24 minutes each day.
Think of claiming back some time by cutting your sleep short? Think again. A lack of sleep decreases your productivity the next day by 30% thereby costing you 4 hours and 48 minutes each day.
Too busy to treat the causes of your headaches and back pains? You might want to reconsider as headaches and back pains impair your productivity by 20 -41% which cost you up to 6 hours and 34 minutes!
So don’t put your health on the back burner especially if you think you don’t have the time. Take action now to start “sharpening your axe”. It will enable you to do more in less time and you’ll actually have more time for you.