A Billion Hours of Good

The real piece of information here is substantial changes can happen with small amounts of time consistently. Although, the book spends a fair amount of time reflecting on how you could make coffee at home or meal prep to save some time. When we find these little moments to add back, we could think about the things that are important to us. This can allow for better decisions, or just to be good.

We can use our time to derive who we wish to become as we age. The author (Chris Fields) wants to help the kids in Ghana. He had zero clue how to start or what to do. He acknowledged that if he just tried to make small efforts, every day, he could eventually figure it out. He was ready to not only learn but to be eager to learn about it. 

This changes a lot. It re-solidifies that all the steps on the journey may be small, but each one matters.  They can feed off the last victory and push us to believe a little bit more in ourselves.  We should choose to do the hard and difficult things. We should train ourselves to continuously show up to the hard things that we need to face.

 If we spent just 14 minutes a day, we would become extraordinary at something. This curtails right into the idea of Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hour theory. The nice part is you do not need 10 years full time to get better at something. If you actively spend some time in your thought process, actively challenge yourself to do some difficult things, and see if you can bring happiness/joy to someone else's existence that the billion hours of good can be shared with everyone.

We all must share this world together.  If people spent 14 minutes each day trying to do some good for someone else, we can get to a billion hours quick.