Introducing The Time Token Concept

“We all have 24 hours in a day” yes, but how do we actually use those 24 hours?

I decided that in order to find out this answer, I would visualise each hour as a ‘Time Token’.

Like a poker chip basically. Think about holding 24 of them in your hands and then delegating them one by one into categories.

Stay with me, it’s cooler than it sounds I promise.

Let me show you what I mean and put this into action. Here’s a regular day for me when I work from the office:

How I Use My Time Tokens (1 token = 1 hour)
Sleep - 8 tokens
Work - 8 tokens
Travel - 2 tokens
Exercise - 1 token
Dinner - 1 token
Down time - 4 tokens

Day complete.

That’s a simplified version but one that is easy to look at and analyse.

Take down time for example, that can cover many different things but it makes it easy to understand and be like ok, I actually have 4 hours to (kind of) do what I want.

Whether that’s watching Netflix with my wife, catching up on sport, reading - it’s a great way to ask yourself how you want to use those 4 hours and how you currently are.

It paints a clear picture with the use of your time and brings up questions like:

• How can I reduce travel time to work?

• Is my balance right?

• Where should I delegate more tokens?

• What category could I take a token or two from?

I think it’s a great exercise to do to be like hang on, how do I actually spend my 1,440 minutes every single day and how can I be smarter with that time?

For example, I’m already contemplating how to reduce travel time to work. Whether that’s leaving earlier, finding a different method and so on.

Try it for yourself. Delegate those Time Tokens.