Welcome to my blog, where I will be recording my progress over the next 4 weeks in my attempts to apply supply chain principles to improving a certain aspect of my life!
The aspect I have in mind might seem trivial to some, but is a real issue for me - I sleep too much! A lie-in has now become standard for me; I would estimate that I get up after 12 noon more than I do before it. In what is supposed to be my final year, when I have a job, and when I should be apply to big firms, I am simply wasting too much time in bed. Consider the following:
I usually go to bed around 1am. Add on the standard 8 recommended hours of sleep, and I should be getting up at 9am. I estimate I average at least 3.5 hours over this however.
3.5 x 7 (days) = 24.5 hours per week lost to "gratuitous sleeping"
24.5 x 52 (weeks) = 1274 hours per year.
1274 / 24 (hours) = 53.03
What these calculations show are quite shocking! I am losing the equivalent of 53 days worth of hours-awake each year just because of my lie-ins. A simple way of summarising it is by noting that 15% of my life is spent sleeping for the sake of sleeping.
Something needs to change.
