Do you know what the abbreviation WWIGFTNH in the article title means?

It’s a powerful question which I think people should ask themselves on the hour, every hour of every day.

The question helps motivate people to do more of the things they want, and need to do.

It helps them to do better in life.

It helps them to LIVE a better life.

If you are an avid reader of my articles, you’ll know that I regularly talk about how the results we want to achieve can only be realised by the actions we take.

Its basic cause and effect… the things you do will affect your life in specific ways, the more you do of a certain thing, the more it will affect your life.

So what is the question in question?

What Will I Gain From This Next Hour?

I was recently reminded of this method after reading an article where a woman was explaining how she would ask herself every hour, what am I going to gain from the next hour?

She would ask herself this question so that she was consciously aware of what she was doing and whether it would help her to achieve the things she wanted to do.

Her question is a little more longwinded than my version.

By asking yourself, ‘what will I gain from this next hour?’ you become aware of whether you need to change what you are doing or if you are okay to carry on.

For example; if your most pressing goal is to finish writing a book and right now you are alone in an empty house sat on the sofa drinking coffee reading the newspaper… asking yourself ‘what will I gain from this next hour?’ will force you to evaluate what you are doing… and what will be the result of your actions.

If you carried on relaxing on the sofa for an hour you may gain calmness and a moment of quiet pleasure, which is not necessarily a bad thing… but you may also gain nothing but annoyance at yourself for wasting the time and that you haven’t got any further with finishing your book.

You get more of what you do… if you spend a lot of time procrastinating instead of doing something which will take you towards achieving your goals, you’ll end up with more days of procrastination and goals still to be accomplished.

The problem with procrastination is that most people do not consciously realise that they are doing it. For many people, procrastination is a bad habit.

Asking yourself ‘what will I gain from this next hour?’ is a simple yet powerful system… as long as you remember to do it.

It might be a good idea to set a reminder on your phone to go off on the hour every hour so that you are forced to ask the question throughout the day.

This isn’t about time management; it is more about effort and attention management.

You cannot manage time; you can only manage what you do with the time you have.

You either use it in a good way, or a bad way…

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