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TOPUCU Standard Workbook Lesson 6: Part 1

LESSON 6: PART 1
want to do so that you can become what you The picture of the finished person that you
want to be. want to become. Keep putting the pieces HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR 168?
together until that picture is a reality.
It is the constant awareness of the finish line
that will get you there. Visualize and attack! We hope you’re getting this. You chose
See it and achieve it! a bad habit or something that you wanted
to change in Lesson One. You were taught
Memorize these words, Finish before you tools on how to stay motivated and take Today’s lesson is titled “How Do You Spend need all the sleep you can get. But when
Start! Visualize yourself at the starting line pain while you’re going through your Your 168?” Actually, it could have been you’re an adult you need less. Champions
of a race. Now visualize yourself crossing the transformation. Then you were taught titled “How Do You Spend Your 700,000.” understand this principle and by giving
finish line even though you haven’t started the secrets of how champions use the If you haven’t figured it out by now, we’re themselves a couple of extra hours per day,
yet. This is the principle of visualization. talking about time. 168 is the number of they can gain 14 hours a week which equals
power of positive thinking and hours in a week. The 700,000 number is an extra 728 a year. That adds up to 30 extra
Here’s your homework. Visualize a picture on visualization. Keep growing, it will be the approximate amount of hours a person days. Imagine what you could do with 30
the puzzle box. What picture you ask? worth it. We are proud of you! is given if they lived 46 days past their 80 extra days. 2 hours a day doesn’t seem like
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birthday. What will transform your life is how much, but it’s literally one-twelfth of your
you spend them. In this lesson we are going lifetime. Are you starting to understand the
LESSON 5: QUIZ to learn how champions take charge of this value of time? Now after your eight hours

principle. We are also going to learn how
of sleep, you have to factor in your weekly
most people have no understanding of how routines and responsibilities - if you have a
valuable each hour is. As with the previous job or you’re a student then subtract another
1. The phrase, "You must finish before you NOTES: lessons, Part 1 will serve to give you an 40 to 60 hours. So now you’re down to
start" refers to the act of understanding regarding the concept of time. approximately 50 hours in your week. That’s
The second part will give you the secrets already more than 100 fewer hours than you
and tools that you will need to accomplish a began with, but it’s still a lot. Now sure, some
transformation in this area of that is going to be dedicated to family
of your life. responsibilities and obligations, but in the
2. What technique can you use to visualize
the results you're trying to obtain?
"The question I ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the
most important thing I could be doing?'" — Mark Zuckerberg

So let’s get to it. As mentioned earlier, there end you have approximately 30 or so hours
3. What is your vision for your future self? are 168 hours in a week. To some of you, it every week to use at your own discretion.
sounds like a lot. To some of you it doesn’t Unfortunately, the vast majority of people
sound like nearly enough. Either way, you waste most of those hours. You need to learn
have to learn how to maximize your time. how to maximize those hours.
As an illustration, let’s examine the amount of
time you spend sleeping. If you sleep eight Time may be the most valuable asset you
hours a night that adds up to 56 hours a have in your toolbox for success. But unlike
week, leaving you with 112 hours to get stuff other tools – and this can be said with a
done. And if you’re a person who sleeps late great degree of certainty - once it’s gone
at every given opportunity then you have you can never get it back. There’s no way
even less hours. On the flip side, not many to tell whether or not any of us will hit that
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champions are known to sleep a full eight 700,000 hour and make it to 80. Maybe
hours. When you’re a growing child you your life will be shorter; maybe it will

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