How many summers do you think you have left on this earth? The answer might surprise you.

Welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast. If you've been listening to my

podcast for a while, you know I'm pretty much obsessed with time

management. I want to get a lot of cool stuff done in a short amount of time

without having to work hard so I'm always looking to new books and to experts

for new and interesting advice that I haven't heard before.

So when I recently purchased a new book called 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Berkman. I was excited because this is supposed to be time management for

mortals and it got great reviews. So I'm like a new time management book. You're going to teach me to be more productive. Check, check. I'm in it to win it. How can I get more done?

And the years where it gets crazy. This book has nothing to do with getting more done.

It's actually inspiring you to get less done?

Or more importantly, to really focus on what matters

because the whole premise behind this book

is that the average lifespan only has 4,000 weeks.

You only have 4,000 weeks on this earth.

And when I read this, it really stopped me in my tracks

because I had never thought about this before.

If you were to just say to me to guess how many weeks I have in my life, I would

think it would be like a hundred thousand, like a huge number. 4,000 is terrifyingly small. So reading this book I kind of, I don't want to say I got sad but it definitely took me out and made me step back and really

re-evaluate some things. You know I've recently lost my stepfather and my mom is

aging and Joe's parents are aging my dad's aging and when you get to this point in

your life where you're in your mid-s, reaching that big 50 and you have

aging parents, you start looking at your parents' life a little differently and asking

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