RICH IN QUALITY TIME

Relatively, you get the least time with friends.

Takeaways:

• Choose your friends wisely. You can only keep a few.
• Make sure they bring out the best version of you.

Between the ages of 20-56, your time with coworkers spikes tremendously. 

Takeaways:

• Don’t settle for a job you dislike. Try to “build a life that you don’t need a vacation from.”

Set healthy boundaries with your time.

This continually trends upward, peaking after age 58.

Takeaways:

• “Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Find the person who keeps bettering themselves and growing with you.

This peaks while your kids are young, and then sharply declines.

Takeaways:

• Try to be present for those first 18 years. (You may regret it later if you’re not.)
• Whenever you feel frustrated with your kids, imagine a future when they’re grown and you don’t get to see them often. I call this the “Back-In-Time Method”

After 40, people spend an increasing amount of time alone.

Takeaways:

• No surprise— you’ll spend the most time during your life solo. This becomes especially true after age 40.
• Invest in self awareness and growth until you love your own company. Mindfulness helps with this btw.

Ask yourself two things:

1) Who are they?

2) Can you spend more time with them this year?

When you look back at age 90, you’ll be so glad you did.

Remember— these are just the average trends.

There’s nothing more powerful than realizing… you can change this graph at any moment.