10× hour

An hour is not always the same as the hour just passed before that.

It’s sixty minutes an hour, and each minute is sixty second, yes. But the value of your one hour spent on different activities differs vastly.

Some hours matter more than others.

Some hours are 10× more valuable than others.

Just like how time dilates when you’re moving at light speed, the value of time spent on any one thing dilates when you’re doing work that really moves the needle.

I want my hours to matter. But how?

Jack Abraham recently shared this story about Jeff Bezos while talking to Sam and Shaan on the My First Million podcast:

Apparently, Jeff Bezos would routinely look at his calendar for the last week, and see which blocks can he miss. Which meetings he could have skipped with minimal impact. Which activities he could have dropped to little effect. Week by week, he would remove hours that didn’t matter, and leave behind hours that did. Slowly over the months and years, that practice would optimise his time towards blocks that he shouldn’t miss. Blocks of time that move the needle. Hours that truly matter.

I really like that practice.

So, try removing blocks in your calendar and see if anything bad happens. Try not turning up and see what happens. Remove block by block till people start noticing.

What’s the worse that could happen?

If you can accept the consequences; if there’s no major downsides, then DO IT.

Imagine, a calendar where every hour is a 10× hour. Every second moves the needle.

Imagine what you’ll achieve after one year doing that!