A visual representation of life measured in weeks. How much time will we have in our lifetime?

And like this - in months

But it’s more convenient to look at life in weeks

Each line represents one year. Now you know how many weeks will pass from your birth to your 90th birthday. It often seems to us that our lives consist of countless weeks. But they are counted and are now looking right at you. Before continuing the conversation, let's look at how the average person on the planet spends their weeks.

This chart can be used to look at the death dates of famous people.

What about your weeks?

Sometimes life seems too short, and sometimes it seems too long. Of course, such a schedule emphasizes that life is finite. All the weeks that you have left are now in front of you.

The time you have now is precious. Among the trillions of weeks of eternity, yours are a small handful

Continuing the “jewel” metaphor, imagine that every week of your life is a diamond with a diameter of 2 millimeters (0.5 carats). Like this:

If we take a 90-year lifespan as a given, then all our diamonds will fit in one tablespoon (4680 diamonds for the same number of weeks of life).

Looking at these diamonds, you might ask yourself, “How do I spend my weeks?”

There are two good rules to dispose of your jewelry:

1) enjoy every diamond;
2) do something that will make your diamonds even better in the future.

In other words, appreciate your weeks and use them to be happy. And don’t despair if some of them don’t bring you happiness - they too must pass in order for them to truly come. Good times. It’s ideal if you can follow both the first and second rules at once.

Empty circles are looking at you. Yes, their number is limited. Yes, perhaps there are fewer of them than we would like. But they are still empty. And only you decide what to fill them with.

Albert Einstein proved that time is a relative concept.

However, people have long felt this even without him. After all, no one will argue that pleasant time rushes at an insane speed, while boring and meaningless time drags on like a turtle?

In order to somehow bring order to this chaos, calendars were invented. You look at the calendar and feel confident and calm: today is Monday, tomorrow will be Tuesday, and in two days summer will begin.

The only problem is that calendars are also quite relative. There are calendars that slow down time, and there are those that make it worth its weight in gold. Don't believe me?

Take, for example, an old tear-off calendar. Such a thick stack of sheets of days that it is impossible to even just leaf through. And then the year ends and you hang up the next one. If you live according to such a calendar, then life seems endless. There are countless days in it, what’s the hurry?

Or, for example, an ordinary pocket calendar. Convenient item, although also not without its drawbacks. Allows you to plan your life for the whole year.

As you can see, all these methods of counting time have one significant problem. They take one segment out of the flow of time, in the first case a day, in the second a year, but they do not allow you to look at your entire life. They inform us about what day it is from the birth of Christ, but they are silent about what day it is in your life.

Although this is much more important for us, don’t you think?

And recently I came across a calendar that completely solves all problems with planning and motivation. He is simply brilliant and brilliantly simple. See for yourself.

This is a human life of 90 years (we are kind, we don’t feel sorry), presented in the form of weeks. One cell is one week, each row is another year of your life. This is what your time allotted looks like. Impressive?

But it will hit you even more when you print out and paint over the time you’ve already lived. And then hang this calendar in the kitchen or put it on your desktop and start coloring in each next week. For variety and clarity, you can mark particularly important events or periods of your life.

What you get is a complete map of your entire life, the size of an A4 sheet, which gives a clear idea of ​​the finitude of your life and will help you appreciate every week of it.

You probably want to ask me, where are the days of the week, numbers and months on this calendar?

Do you really need them? You may not be able to immediately answer what date it is today, but you will know for sure that it is now the fifth week of the thirty-third year of your life. Which you will try with all your might to make the most unforgettable and beautiful.

After all, the end of the sheet is already visible...

A wonderful idea - a calendar that can become the best solution all problems related to planning and motivation.

Albert Einstein proved that time is a relative concept.

However, people have long felt this even without him. After all, no one will argue that pleasant time rushes at an insane speed, while boring and meaningless time drags on like a turtle?

In order to somehow bring order to this chaos, calendars were invented. You look at the calendar and feel confident and calm: today is Monday, tomorrow will be Tuesday, and in two days summer will begin.

The only problem is that calendars are also quite relative. There are calendars that slow down time, and there are those that make it worth its weight in gold. Don't believe me?

Take, for example, an old tear-off calendar. Such a thick stack of sheets of days that it is impossible to even just leaf through.

And then the year will end, and you will hang the next one.

If you live according to such a calendar, then life seems endless. There are countless days in it, what’s the hurry?

And he is brilliant in his simplicity. One sheet of paper fits a person's entire life - 90 years (let's be optimistic).

It is divided into weeks.

Each cell represents one week, and the horizontal row represents one year.

This sheet is all the time given to you. Well, is it impressive?

If you live more than 70 years, this is your bonus!

These are still flowers! When you print it out and paint over the weeks you’ve already lived through, then you’ll definitely get a shiver!

Hang it in your bedroom, living room or above your desk. Color one square every week. To diversify your “life map”, you can mark particularly important events or turning points different colors.

This A4 sheet will clearly show you the infinity of time allotted to you and will help you appreciate every week you live.

Days of the week, numbers and months - they are not needed for motivation, so they are not on our calendar. But the realization that now is the 30th week of the 32nd year of your life is important. And no less important is that you will do your best to make her as unforgettable, happy and beautiful as possible. Because there are not as many cells left to the end of the sheet as we would like.

A serious reason to think...

Time is the most precious gift, because we are given a strictly defined amount of it. You can always make money, but it’s simply impossible to get more time for yourself. By giving your time to someone, you are giving them a part of your life that cannot be returned. Your time is your life. That is why it is the most priceless gift that we can give to each other.

Real communication with people requires real time, and The best way The spelling of the word "love" is V - R - E - M - Z.

Rick Warren. Purposeful life.

“Defeat procrastination” (http://bit.ly/20LIM8Q: Motivational calendar for a procrastinator

This simple and ingenious calendar can solve all problems... with planning and motivation, especially if you print it in A4 format, color in the time you have already lived (for clarity, you can mark the periods of your life in different colors), hang it on the refrigerator or put it on your desktop and get started paint over each passing week.

You get a complete map of life on a regular A4 sheet, which gives a clear idea of ​​the time already lived, of the finitude of life and will help you appreciate each week (calendar in high resolution-http://bit.ly/1VFlmAg).

These cells are quickly running out, which is why it is so important to live the rest meaningfully - because now you can feel, see with your own eyes how fleeting a person’s life is.

Calendar Idea (http://waitbutwhy.com/?p=1470) - popular resource "Wait But Why" (http://waitbutwhy.com/, https://www.facebook.com/waitbutwhy) - Tim Urban's blog and Andrew Finn. Since its inception, the blog has attracted over 40 million unique views, thousands of patrons, and famous fans such as Elon Musk.

Life calendar in weeks one of best methods life management.

We tend to overestimate the importance of medium periods of time (month, year) and underestimate short (quarter of an hour, hour, day, week) and long (3-5-7 or more years). We want everything at once, quickly, which is why many people make plans for the month and year. Many people lack the courage, patience and discipline to think and plan 5-10 years ahead.

No big goal can be achieved in 1 year. To get the average general education, it takes 11 years. To obtain professional education, it takes 2-7 years. It takes 20 years to raise a child. It takes 3 years or more to create a successful, stable company.

If we do not plan for several years, then the importance of short periods also decreases. If I teach English language 15 minutes a day, then I won’t learn it in 1 year. What if I devote 15 minutes to this for 10 years?

A weekly life calendar helps you break out of this 1-year trap by providing a visual representation of your entire life on 1-2 pages. We see our whole lives at once, which makes it easier to plan for several years. The cells of life are weeks, which makes it possible to increase the significance of this short period of time in our eyes.

I work with this tool in an Excel spreadsheet.

The unit of time a week is quite short, and therefore a “tangible”, “felt” period of time. On the other hand, this is seven whole days, during which you can do a lot.

The weekly life calendar is a table.

The first column shows age in years. Next are 52 columns with week numbers (each year has 52 weeks). And in the last column are calendar years.

As in the time resource exercise, you need to determine the end time of life. Then, cross out all the past weeks. After that, return to this calendar weekly and cross out the past week.

In Excel, you can make notes on cells, which are convenient for recording goals. For example, in the note for week 40 of 2025, the goal might be “Buy a house.”

The weekly life calendar is an excellent tool that increases your awareness of time and planning productivity.

Additionally:

1. Life calendar in Excel format ↓
2. Life calendar generator on kzen.ru.

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Author's Diary: 365 days of motivation (1)

Nikita Larionov |

My name is Olim and I am a Moscow entrepreneur. During my life, I have tried many professions: I was a janitor, a loader, a salesman, a waiter, a cook, an administrator, a carpenter, a bartender, a manager, a taxi driver, an SEO specialist, a department head and a commercial director. At every stage, the work gave me experience, and I am grateful to God for it. Even being a janitor at a certain period has its own meaning. Take advantage of any situation!

Regardless of the field, the purpose of my work was the money necessary for survival. Dreams and hobbies remained in the background or were shelved. The eternal “earn money to buy something”, “work to do something” did not bring satisfaction. And then I realized that I was tired of participating in the “rat race”. At that moment life changed and my new project became the embodiment of what gave me true inspiration from my early youth!

Take advantage of any situation!

I don’t know what your hobbies are, but in addition to my work, I collect quotes and aphorisms.

The wisdom contained in them attracted me. In my youth, I kept a special notebook where I wrote down and periodically re-read the sayings I liked, drawing strength and hope for new achievements. Then the Internet burst into life, and there was no point in such a hobby. Everything is always at hand - you just need to look on the Internet.

But I still want to read smart thoughts on paper, without being distracted by work or the continuous flow of information on the Internet, think, be imbued with wisdom and get that positive charge energy that helped me move forward. There was a period when I was left without a job, without a business and with a lot of debt. The wisdom of great people, which I absorbed from school, saved me and made me look at the current situation in a new way, from a different angle, and I new strength and enthusiastically began to study new things, studied, learned, moved forward and conquered new heights!

I dreamed of creating something that would serve as a motivator for other people. Many, like me, need a push forward, even if it is the right phrase read at the right time. This is how the idea of ​​a motivator calendar was born. And when I met in in social networks with graphic designer Gulia from Naberezhnye Chelny, whose hobby is designing pictures with quotes, this dream flared up with renewed vigor. I suggested that Gulia create a joint motivational calendar “365 days of motivation”, where each day has its own quote or aphorism. There was a lot of doubt, debate and reflection. But the project has started!

We believe that the project will become unique if we add some “trick” to it. For us, this “trick” was the ability to hide motivating statements under a special scratch layer (like in an instant lottery). But the calendar lottery is a win-win. The main thing is to take advantage of your winnings correctly. A person who wants to read a motivational statement will spend only a couple of seconds erasing the protective layer. At the same time, he will put other things aside, take a break from the TV or computer in order to tune in to fully perceive the quote. This will soon turn into a real ritual, because none of the 365 quotes in the calendar are repeated. And throughout the month, the owner of the calendar will be inspired by a picture with a powerful quote. Thus, the product will serve as a real motivation tool.

The idea appeared and took shape, everything is there for implementation: enthusiastic co-authors, a lot of quotes, beautiful design, a printing house where they are ready to print a calendar and hide quotes under a scratch layer. The only question that remains open is financing. Gulia and I decided to test our idea using “ruble voting.” We chose crowdfunding for financing, i.e. raising funds for the implementation of the project before the release of the product. Each participant who pays for the calendar in advance is considered a sponsor of the project and will receive the product at a significant discount.

What does this give us:

Crowdfunding is a test of a project idea. People invest only in projects that interest them.

Crowdfunding reduces financial risks. Both parties are financially insured: the author of the project and the sponsors. If unsuccessful, the money is returned to the sponsors, and the author does not bear any responsibility to them.

It’s too early to talk about the result, but from the reviews we see that consumers like the calendar. We plan to launch the product on October 11, 2015, after the completion of the crowdfunding campaign. We know that the calendar will be published and there will be buyers for it, since the number of sponsors is growing every day.

We believe that related projects will also develop: a calendar website with sayings and thematic pictures that will be updated daily (the website design has already been approved and its layout is underway) and our blog, where the community will discuss all this, communicate, suggest something from his collections of quotes and aphorisms. We will include the best of these quotes in the 2017 calendar.

And in the future we will release other thematic calendars - entertaining ones with jokes; children's and educational; in English and other languages ​​upon request; religious calendars with sayings from scriptures and many others. We are planning to launch an application, the owner of which receives a screen saver with a motivating quote-picture every day. And we don’t stop there, because we are overwhelmed with ideas!

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As is known, life expectancy ordinary person on average - 90 years. To imagine this to myself, and to you, I decided to designate each year of this very life with a diamond:

90 years of life in years

Then I decided to imagine each month in the life of a 90-year-old:

90 years of life in months

But I didn’t stop there and drew every week of this old man’s life:

90 years of life in weeks

But what is there to hide, even this diagram was not enough for me, and I depicted every day of the life of the same person who lived to be 90 years old. When I saw the resulting colossus, I thought: “This is a little too much, Tim,” and decided not to show it to you. Weeks are enough.

Just realize: each dot in the picture above is one typical week of yours. Hidden somewhere among them is the current one when you read this article, ordinary and unremarkable. And all these weeks fit on one sheet of paper, even for someone who managed to live to see his 90th birthday. One sheet of paper is equal to such a long life. It's mind boggling!

All these dots, circles and diamonds scared me so much that I decided to move on from them to something else. “What if we focus not on weeks and days, but on the events that happen to a person,” I thought. Let’s not go far, I’ll explain my idea using my own example. Now I’m 34. Let’s say I still have 56 years left to live, that is, until my 90th birthday, just like the average person at the beginning of the article. Through simple calculations, it turns out that in my 90-year life I will only see 60 winters, and not one more winter:

90 years of life: winters

I can swim in the sea about 60 more times, because now I go to the sea no more than once a year, not like before:

How many times will I swim in the ocean

By the end of my life, I will have time to read about 300 more books if, as now, I read five every year. It sounds kind of sad, but it's true. And no matter how much I would like to find out what the others write about, I most likely will not succeed, or rather, will not have time.

But, essentially speaking, all this is nonsense. I go to the sea about the same number of times, read the same number of books a year, and it’s unlikely that anything will change in this part of my life. It was not these events that I thought about. And I thought about much more important things that happen to me less regularly.

Take, for example, the time I spend with my parents. Until I was 18, I was with them 90% of the time. Then I went to college and moved to Boston, and now I visit them five times every year. Each of these visits takes about two days. What's the end result? But in the end, I spend 10 days a year with my parents - 3% of the total time I was with them before I was 18.

Now my parents are 60 years old, let's say they live to be 90. If I still spend 10 days a year with them, then in total I have 300 days left to communicate with them. This is less time than I spent with them in my entire sixth grade.

5 minutes of simple calculations - and here in front of me are facts that are difficult to comprehend. Somehow I don't feel like I'm at the end of my life life path, but my time with those closest to me is almost over. For greater clarity, I drew the time that I have already spent with my parents (marked in red in the picture below) and the time that I can still spend with them (marked in gray in the picture below):

The days spent with parents are highlighted in red, the remaining ones are highlighted in gray.

It turns out that when I finished school, 93% of the time I could spend with my parents was over. Only 5% left. Much less. Same story with my two sisters.

I lived with them in the same house for about 10 years, and now we are separated by an entire continent, and every year I spend at most 15 days with them. Well, at least the good news is that I still have 15% of the time left to be with my sisters.

Something similar happens to old friends. In high school I played cards with four friends 5 days a week. Over the course of 4 years, I think we met about 700 times. Now we are scattered across the country, each with their own lives and their own schedules. Now we all gather under one roof for 10 days every 10 years. We have already used 93% of our time with them, 7% remains.

What's behind all this math? I personally come to three conclusions. Except that soon someone will invent a means that will allow you to live to 700 years. But this is unlikely. So it's better not to hope. So, three conclusions:

1. Try to live close to loved ones. I spend 10 times more time with people who live in the same city as me than with those who live somewhere else.

2. Try to prioritize correctly. More or less time you spend with a person depends only on your choice. So, choose for yourself, and do not shift this difficult responsibility to circumstances.

3. Try to make the most of your time with loved ones. If you, like me, have done some simple calculations and know that your time with dear person is nearing its end, don't forget about it when you're around him. Every second together is worth its weight in gold.

Please read to the end. Written by Regina Brett, 90, Cleveland, Ohio
Advice from a 90-year-old woman. Re-read at least once a week!

To celebrate my 45th birthday, I compiled 45 lessons that life has taught me.

This is the most requested column I've ever written. I turned 90, and here I am again publishing this column:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, take another step forward.

3. Life is too short to waste it on hatred.

4. Work won't take care of you when you're sick. Your friends and parents will do this. Take care of this relationship.

5. Pay off your credit card debts every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree or disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It is acceptable to be angry with God. He will understand.

9. Save for retirement from your first salary.

10. When it comes to chocolate, there is no point in resisting.

11. Make peace with your past so that it does not spoil your present.

12. You can allow yourself to cry in front of your children.

13. Don't compare your life to someone else's. You have no idea what they are really going through.

14. If the relationship is supposed to be secret, you shouldn't be involved in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry: God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of everything that cannot be called useful, beautiful or funny.

18. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. However, a second childhood depends entirely on you.

20. When the time comes to pursue what you truly love in this life, don't say “No.”

21. Burn candles, use nice sheets, wear nice underwear. Don't save anything for a special occasion. This special occasion is today.

22. Prepare abundantly, and then come what may.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait until you're old to wear bright red clothes.

24. The most important organ in sex is the brain.

25. No one but you is responsible for your happiness.24. The most important organ in sex is the brain.

26. For any so-called disaster, ask the question: Will it matter in five years?

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everything and everyone.

29. What others think of you should not worry you.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give it time.

31. It doesn’t matter whether the situation is good or bad, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself seriously. Nobody does this.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because he is God, not because of what you have done or not.

35. There is no need to study life. You appear in it and do as much as you can.

36. Growing old is a better alternative than dying young.

37. Your children have only one future.

38. All that matters in the end is that you experienced love.

39. Go out for a walk every day. Miracles happen everywhere.

40. If we put all our problems in a pile and compared them with other people’s, we would quickly take ours away.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have everything you need.

42. However, the best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, get dressed and go out in public.

44. Give in.

45. Even though life isn’t tied up with a bow, it’s still a gift.

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