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-1 hour of planning will save 10 hours of doing.
-The average worker sends and receives 190 messages per day.
-Taking 5 minutes per day, 5 days per week to improve one’s job will create 1,200 little improvements to a job over a 5 year period.
-When someone is asking for our time for a meeting, 80% of the time, there is an alternate date and time that will be acceptable.
-80% of employees do not want to go to work on Monday morning. By Friday, the rate only drops to 60%.
-20% of the average workday is spent on “crucial” and “important” things, while 80% of the average workday is spent on things that have “little value” or “no value”.
-In the last 20 years, working time has increased by 15% and leisure time has decreased by 33%.
-60% of meeting attendees take notes to appear as if they are listening.
-78% of workers in America wish they had more time to “smell the roses”.
-Angry people are twice as likely to suffer a heart attack as a person in better control of their emotions.
-It almost always takes twice as long to complete a task as what we originally thought it would take.
-The average working person spends less than 2 minutes per day in meaningful communication with their spouse or “significant other”.
-The average working person spends less than 30 seconds a day in meaningful communication with their children.

*Statistics found on http://www.balancetime.com/articles/tm_facts_and_figures.htm