Got Time?

As you dream up your New Year’s Resolutions for 2010, take a moment to think about where you spend your time. You define your life by where you decide to spend your time.

Here are some stats that you may find interesting:

• 80% of employees do not want to go to work on Monday morning.
• By Friday, the rate only drops to 60%.
• The average person uses 13 different methods to control and manage their time.
• The average person gets 1 interruption every 8 minutes, or approximately 7 an hour, or 50-60 per day.
• On an average day, there are 17 million meetings in America.
• The average worker sends and receives 190 messages per day.
• Over one billion people around the world survive on less than $1 per day.
• One species becomes extinct every 15 minutes
• A new McDonald’s franchise opens every four hours.
• 98% of American homes have at least one television set.
• The average American sees 200,000 televised acts of violence by the age of 18.
• The average adult spends 4 minutes a day outside.

More stats here and here.

9 Comments

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  Michelle January 4, 2010 at 4:15 am

  Those are some interesting statistics!

  Just wondering, where did you get them from?

  PS This scares me:
  “A new McDonald’s franchise opens every four hours.”

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  Jennifer February 14, 2010 at 11:09 am

  The average person spends only 4 minutes outside? That is a disturbing thought.

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  Jason Ibarra April 20, 2010 at 1:21 pm

  You just made me feel fat, lazy, and unproud to be an American. hahaha..

  4 minutes a day outside? I think you’re right..

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  Mike Cormack December 1, 2010 at 3:15 am

  4 minutes a day? Is that Americans or North America or worldwide?? Most work days I only spend the time from the subway to the office or subway to home outdoors – maybe 30 minutes…

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  Gary J Martin June 11, 2011 at 12:40 am

  For me the most surprising and disturbing one was extinction every 15 mins.
  Wow, thats awful.
  How can the earth survive when species are disappearing at that rate?

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  Catherine September 6, 2011 at 5:24 am

  Hi Stephan,
  Some of these stats are absolutely staggering.
  Thanks for sharing them. Very interesting indeed!
  Regards
  Catherine

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  Frank October 12, 2011 at 8:57 am

  I am also very surprised about 4 minutes per day. That I can hardly imagine. I spend every day outside. Where did you get this information?

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  AMUNO December 31, 2011 at 3:10 pm

  Hello from Germany,

  crazy little post. Really only 4 minutes a day outside? Cant belive it in the time of Wlan

  HF

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