Commuting Time 

Log your activities for a week and calculate how much time is spent in commuting from one place to another.  Find out how much time is spent in travelling in a day and project it for a month, a year and your life time.  You will be surprised to find as to how many years go in travelling alone. 

If you are travelling on an average 20 minutes each way to your place of work, in a career about 25 years you are spending 3,12,000 minutes calculated for 26 days per month which is about 650 man days (1 man day = 8 hours).  This in turn means 1.78 years in your life time.  Think how much can be accomplished in 1.78 years!  This does not include travel undertaken to places other than to the work place. 

Depending on your mode of travel, consider as to what you can do while travelling.  If you are travelling in a group, consider your options such as discussing office matters, discussing business conditions etc. Consider your options of reading a newspaper or browsing a book.  Consider whether you should read the newspaper in the home or while travelling. 

However, the circumstances of travel will decide what you can do.  If you are travelling in a very crowded train compartment, none of these may come to your rescue.  Ask the question: "What is the best use of my time right now?"  Whatever comes to your mind apply it.  However, do it tactfully.

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