Love this concept!
Today, I started using the MortalMinder app.
What initially drew me to it was the life clock.
But what hooked me was the 24 hour clock.
Every 24 hours, the clock begins again. You set a single objective to complete within 24 hours.
It's similar to don't break the chain. I've created a tracker below.
I view each 24 hours as a new level in this game called life.
By simply focusing on success and failure of this simple metric, we believe that you can maximize the remaining time you have on this planet one 24 hour period at a time.
Mortalminder also shows you how much time you have left on Earth. You can always see what percentage of life you are through, and how many months you've lived of all the months you'll ever get.
Plus, each time you load the main screen, you're treated with a curated quote about success, failure, life, death, productivity, and other relevant topics.
Mortalminder: The ultimate deadline.
Due to a cancelled flight, our week vacation to New Orleans was delayed by 24 hours. I think what initially made me so upset wasn't the cancellation itself, but the fact it happened twice in the same year (the last time my wife was supposed to fly, her flight was cancelled).
But alas, we got out the next day (Christmas day). If we had only a few days in New Orleans, I would have been more upset. But we had a couple extra days and managed to still see, eat, and drink as much as we wanted. In fact, while we extended our trip by one day, we both felt we would have enjoyed coming back a day early to sleep in our own bed.
The power of 24.
What hit me was how insignificant the delay actually was in the grand scheme of the year. It was only 1/365 or .27% of the year. But if you look at the week only: 1/6 = or 16%.
Look at 1 hour in a 24 hour day: It's about 4%. Close to 4.175% to be more precise.
The effect of being delayed by one our is 4% of your 24 hour day is lost. But we need to sleep, right? In fact, for me, by 9pm, my day is pretty much toast. My 'active' hours are more like 5am-9pm. Taking the 8 hours for sleep out of my 24 hour day leaves me with 16 hours. The actual cost of a lost hour is more accurately a 1/16 hit to my day or 6.25% to be exact.
The power of 6.25%.
If you break your day in chunks of 6.25%, you begin to see the value of time - and the compounding interest equation of time invested.
For each hour of my day, no matter what my rate of return is, I'm losing 6.25% interest.
If time were measured like money, how might it impact how we spend it?
I would argue that the value of a life depends on the leverage that life has created in significance. Call it a significance quota.
The significance ratio.
A quota is an allotment. What if each person on the planet was given a 'significance quota.'?
Sales people know well what a quota means. Meet your quota, and you get to keep your job. Exceed your quota and you'll typically get a bonus or commission. This is why sales people routinely try to 'sand bag' thier forecasts. If your commission is based on exceeding your forecast, than your motivation to start from the lowest forecast possible.
My livelihood as a sales person disappeared when I no longer controlled my forecast. What happened at IBM is that I was redeployed. The new boss didn't want another sales person added to his team because it meant his quota was going up. I was like a foster child in a family that didn't want me from the moment I walked in the door. After 18 months of it, I voluntarily pulled myself out of an abusive relationship. The system was setup for me to fail. In fact, I'm certain that natural attrition was part of IBM's downsizing strategy. It was much more popular way to downsize your company compared to announcing massive layoffs.
Consider your life as employment. From the day you are born, your ROI to your employer is measured by the significance ratio. Your are paid 'bonuses' for exceeding your quota, but your payment (in breaths) is based on you meeting your significance quota.
Examples:
Measured in words written vs. words read, it would mean that for every word you write, 10 people read it. For every word you read, you write 10.
For every song you learn, you teach 10 others to play it.
For each lesson you learn, you teach 10 others the lesson learned. They each teach 10 others, and you have an infinitely expanding model. The power of teachers would be amplified if each students quota was 10.
As of today, I've lived 17,407 days or 417,768 hours. For every hour I life, the percentage of that hour of my life is diminished.
At age 30 (10,958 days), each hour was worth 1/262,992 or .00038%. At age 40 (14,610 days), each hour was worth 1/350,640 or .00028%. By age 50 (18,263 days), each hour will be valued at 1/438,312 or .00023%.
The longer you live, the less significant (as a percentage of your total life) each hour is. Yet, in relation to your expiration, each hour becomes a bigger % of time time remaining because the time is always going DOWN.
Let's assume you live to age 79 (average life expectancy in the USA).
That would mean that for every hour as you approach your expiration, each hour becomes a large percentage of the time allotted.
Because we don't know when we'll expire, I'd suggest you look at living each year as if it were your last. You just don't know. And you don't want to wait to start living until you find out you are dying. Guess what? You're dying.
The perspective of a year, week, or day.
1/365 (x 16 hours/day) = 5,840 hours - the worth of one hour in a year is 1/5,840 or .02%
1/7 (x 16 hours/day) = 112 hours - 1 hour lost per week is 1/112 or .9%
1/16 = 16 hours - 1 hour per day = 6.25% (see below).
Today's the last day of the year. From in the perspective of the year, time has almost run out. We are living out the last .1% of a 5,840 year.
Each day, when you awake - set a 16 hour timer. Instead of counting each hour by hour, count each hour as a % of time remaining (6.25% per hour). It'll look like this (assuming your day starts at 5am like mine):
5AM-6AM = 6.25%
7AM = 12.5%
8AM = 18.75%
Wow! By 8AM, your day is almost 20% used up!
9AM = 25%
10AM = 31.25%
11AM = 37.5%
Noon = 43.75%
1pm = 50%
Halfway point!
2pm = 62.5%
3pm = 68.75%
4pm = 75%
5pm = 81.25%
6pm = 87.5%
7pm = 93.75%
8-9pm = 100%
The calendar now available is called 1/16: SENSE OF URGENCY!
We have 8 versions.
Start at 4am or 4:30am Start at 5am or 5:30am Start at 6am or 6:30am Start at 7am or 7:30am
You can reframe a lot of things in life in this way.
What if the significance quota of a life was set at 10 per life? This would that your value would need to be 10x one life. In a simple manner - for every $1 you are paid, you must contribute $1 to ten others.
It is an official limit on the quantity of something. In other words, it can be the share assigned to an individual, group or an entity. For example, in the field of business and commerce, an ‘Activity Quota’ of a salesperson, is the minimum level of sales-oriented tasks, like making phone calls, that the person should perform during a given period.
If you consider that your life is valued at $100k/year, then a 10x ratio means you generate $1 mil/year in value.
I can't help but notice how many times I'm being brought back to investment definitions. I'm starting to think my life calling might have been to be a financial planner!