{"id":2820,"date":"2022-08-21T14:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T14:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2022-08-21T14:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T14:34:19","slug":"the-4-hour-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/2022\/08\/21\/the-4-hour-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The 4 Hour Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How long is your day?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ingrained in the society I live in is the eight hour work day.  However, to get ahead, to be salaried, to be a manager, a mover and shaker or someone who is launching businesses or being an entrepreneur it&#8217;s expected that you work 10, 12, 16 or more hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is this you, you hard working devil you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vouchercloud.com\/resources\/office-worker-productivity\">a study conducted in the UK<\/a> of almost 2,000 office workers, it was found that they are only productive for&#8230; eight hours?  no.  Six hours?  Nope?  Oh, I get it, only four hours.  Um, not even that.  It was less.  <strong><em>But let&#8217;s round up to four<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if people are only productive for four-ish hours, then why stick around for longer than that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exactly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Filling the space<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are given a minute to complete a project or a task, that&#8217;s just too little time.  It&#8217;s absurd.  If you are given 16 hours to do your normal &#8216;day&#8217;s work&#8217; then that&#8217;s just too long, you miss your family, you feel like a slave and your mind will race to figure out how to be more efficient so you can finish the task in a reasonable amount of hours.  Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thinking like a consultant<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When you are a consultant, a gun-for-hire, a specialist, etc. you are hyper-focused on performing a task in as little time as is reasonable.  You don&#8217;t think in terms of &#8216;breaks&#8217; or talking about your vacation, etc.  You work, and work hard and then you get out.  Consultants have that attitude for a reason.  But can&#8217;t you think like that?  Or maybe you already do&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Play with the slider<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So where does the slider move?  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