“There are 168 hours in a week. Even if you work 8 hours per day, commute for 2 hours, sleep for 8, and spend 5 hours on everything else: eating, family, exercising… You still have 27 hours per week to pursue your dream.”

Time is the one commodity nobody can have more of. We are all allowed 24 hours in a day, you, me, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, your boss... and what we do with that time is up to us. That’s why time management is extremely important. In this course, we will go over the 168 Hours time management method and how to use the 168 hours spreadsheet I created specifically for this approach.

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Where is your time going

The first step in claiming your time back is to see where your time is going. And the key here is to look at your time use on a weekly timeframe. Why weekly? Because when trying to solve a problem, bigger samples of data give a clearer picture of the possible solutions. A week is 7 days, 24 hours times 7, 168 hours. It makes it a lot easier to see patterns and blocks of time on a 168-hour timeline than on a 24-hour timeline. In this video, you’ll get access to the 168 hours spreadsheet and learn how to use it.

To have or not to have time

Once you’re done inputting your data in the spreadsheet, the graph on the right side of the screen will update, and you will either have some time left, or nothing at all. In this video, we go over the 2 cases and how to deal with them. I’ll give you tips and tricks to save time on some of the most common activities we all have to do in our daily lives (groceries, commuting, cooking, socializing…) and I’ll list down activities you can probably spend 90% less time on.

What to do with your free time

Here we look at how to use the time you have left per week most efficiently. We talk about multitasking and why it’s a bad idea, and how to get the most out of your free time by only prioritizing 3 activities/hobbies max per free 10-hour block you have available.

How to prioritize

In this video, we dig deeper into how to use your free time by looking at prioritization and the very important concept of Ultimate Prioritisation Cornerstones. This section should help you identify what you truly want to dedicate your free time to. We also talk about the 10% time buffer rule: use a bit of your free time to do 10% of what you wish you had more time to do.

Time put in perspective

Throughout my own learning process of tracking my time use and optimizing it, I researched and compiled the most revealing facts about time management, and I list them in this video. I always get back to those myself when I need to feel the motivation to use my time wisely and to keep my upward momentum.

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Who am I?

Hey, I'm Joseph Mavericks! Learning to live with a purpose and improve myself has changed my life, and I publish content online about the journey. In August of 2019, I took one of the biggest decisions in my life: commit to blogging for at least 6 months, and see where it would take me. Up until then, I had tried dozens of different projects, without ever sticking with one long enough to see any kind of progress. This time around, I decided to treat blogging like a job, to be extremely consistent, and to not drop it at the first obstacle on the road.

I started my entrepreneurship journey while I still had a 9-5 job, and back then I quickly realized that growing a blog and business on the side all the while tending to my growing responsibilities at my office job was not going to be manageable unless I started to drastically rethink the way I managed my time. Ever since I changed my approach to time management, my life has honestly been changed, and in this course, I want to tell you about the method and the tools I used to get here.

"I don't have time" is one of the most overused and overrated sentences of our modern times. A more accurate way of saying would be "This thing is not my priority at the moment", or "I don't prioritize well enough." We have plenty of time to do that one favor to a friend or to start this project we wanted to start. We just didn’t consider those things as having a high enough priority to do them. We most likely simply decided to use our time to do other things, and that’s the path I followed for many years too.

In this course, you’ll learn how to use my 168 Hours Spreadsheet, and we’ll also talk about all the tips tricks, and advantages of looking at your time on a 168-hour timeline (a week) rather than 24 hours, so you can decide to spend your time on things that are a priority for you.

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Other useful links

168 Hours Spreadsheet - josephmavericks.com/168hours

My 50 People Who Do Interview guide - josephmavericks.com/50people

My blog - medium.com/@josephmavericks

Monica Vanthoff

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