I Challenge You to Spend 60 Minutes on Yourself Every Day
And in six months, see if you can recognize yourself.

“Chris Helmsworth, the actor who plays Thor, used to be a skinny kid. And one fine morning, he woke up, exercised for five minutes, and became as muscular as he is today.”
Sounds simple enough, right?
You and I both know that’s an absolute BS (I made it up just now.) What Chris, or anyone who’s become enviably fit, does is quite different, yet simple. Instead of exercising once in a lifetime and forgetting about it, they show up for exercises and diet every day — week after week, month after month.
Results Come After Massive Action
Getting fit comes with visible results. And as you can imagine, those visible results encourage you to do more. Just a look at the weighing scale can give you enough motivation to exercise again.
Other areas of life are not as black & white. The principle is the same — you need to show up every day consistently. But the results will come in different forms or shapes.
A novel writer will have to write page after page every day, for a long time, before she gets to a finished book. A YouTuber will have to make videos after videos until one day he sees audiences flocking in. A swimmer will be uncomfortable in water for days until one day — when it’ll feel like a second home.
You don’t get to that point until you put in the work. But there’s a problem.
“You don’t have enough time!”
How Many Hours Do You Have in a Day?
We are all blessed with the same number of hours in a day. That is life’s biggest equality. What you do with them is totally up to you. And that is where this sixty-minute challenge comes in.
Spend sixty minutes on yourself every day for six months. Do that and you’d only thank me afterwards.
If you don’t have sixty minutes for yourself in a day of (60*24) 1440 minutes, you need to ask yourself what kind of life you are living. You MUST readjust your daily routine.
What Can You Do In Sixty Minutes?
Not much, to be honest. But you can do just enough to get the taste of a life of growth. Begin with these four activities and you’ll see massive changes in your life —
- Start your sixty minutes with a five-minute block for gratitude. Take 10 deep breathes, and then think of 3 instances when you were grateful. Transport yourself to that moment. Feel that gratefulness inside you. Let the power of gratefulness wash you from inside.
- Spend thirty minutes on rigorous physical activity. Run, do HIIT, any sort of aerobic exercise, dance, or do resistance training. Your mind and heart live inside your body. When you’ll take care of the body, you’ll be taking care of your whole self.
- Learn for thirty minutes. If you are a marketer, like I am, find articles or books, or courses that can make you better. Do you want to become a better writer? Buy a course. Find experts — directly, through a course or a book — and then learn from them.
- At the end of the day, spend five minutes analyzing your day. What are you thankful for? What could you have done better? Are you a better person than you were yesterday?
You don’t have to find a sixty-minute block to do all of these. Your gratitude and exercise can happen together — early in the morning. Your learning hour can come later. And you can close the day with five minutes of introspection.
How Can You Find The Time?
While finding extra time might seem impossible, there’s one easy way of doing that. Wake up early!
On average people sleep for 8 hours a day — 1/3rd of their entire day. That means if they live for 60 years, they’d have spent 20 years of that sleeping. Maybe you will want a couple of years from that 20 for yourself?
WebMD says an average adult requires 7–9 hours of sleep daily. You can do it in 7 hours! Sleeping an hour less will open up an extra hour for you every day!
And obviously, if you follow productivity techniques, you might be able to squeeze more time out of your day!
Final Thoughts
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. It ends with a single step as well. But the underlying assumption is that you will continue taking steps consistently.
Otherwise, it’s just one step forward — not exactly a journey.
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