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Every second of every day adds up. From being indecisive of how to do your hair or what to wear today. From sitting on a couch for 3-4 hours at a time to sitting in traffic for hours. Here is a list of crazy statistics and facts about how we use our time over time.



1. Individually, we spend about 11 hours a day using some form of social media.

2. We spend about 90% of our time indoors.

3. We spend 3 months of our life in traffic. This is equivalent to about 38 hours per year.

4. We laugh out loud 290,000 times in your life.

5. We spend 25 years sleeping.

6. Women spend 1.5 years doing their hair. That is about 14,000 hours brushing, washing, blow-drying, straightening, curling and cutting.

7. The average person will swear at least 2 million times in a lifetime.

8. In a lifetime, women spend about 287 days, almost a year, deciding what to wear.

9. Men spend on average 259 hours a year glaring at women.

10. We work about 10.3 years of our life.

11. On average, one spends a total of 48 days in a lifetime having sex.

12. You watch TV for 9.1 years.

13. In a lifetime you spend about 3.6 years eating.

14. An average person swears 2,000,000 times.

15. Women spend eight years shopping.

16. Women spend about 14,000 hours spent on their hair.

17. You walk about 110,000 miles.

18. You fart about 14 times a day.

19. You spend 14 days of your life kissing.

20. You have about 2,000 dreams a year. We forget 80% of our dreams.


One person lives about 20,000 days. Only 20,000 days. We do math with numbers bigger than that. People earn more off a living than that number. That number scares me. I mean look, a woman spends eight years shopping. We spend 11 hours a day on some form of digital media (tv, phone, social media, computer, etc.). Get up, go outside and do something. Life is too short, we spend our time with little things that shouldn't matter. Men spend time glaring at women while women spend time glaring at how they hate their bodies. Instead of staring or sitting there wondering, just make a decision. Make a move and be bold. Because, if you don't, those seconds were just wasted and now you will be still sitting or standing there, glaring, wondering what could have been.

A woman spends on average about 14,000 hours on her hair. Leave it natural, decrease time on making sure it looks good and go look at something good. Go adventure, use the time you are deciding what to wear and the seconds wasted on over sleeping and working and go look at a view and laugh more often. Use the hours given to us in these 20,000 days to make something of yourself. Before you know it you will have 1,000 days to do all you want and you'll be asking yourself where the other 19,000 days went. Make every moment count.


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