Can you triple time?

I read a lot lately, so much so that people make fun of me about it and I have piles of books like old ladies have cats named “maurice.”

Which is fine by me.

And one idea I keep reading over and over again is the idea of productivity with everyone including my all time fave Jim Rohn (not ROME!) making the point that:

Everyone has the same 24 hours in the day. You can’t make more of them. You can’t get more time… 

Yes yes I get it. Focus, productivity, time-blocking, also Steve jobs was a genius and Sir Richard Branson is really focused and the southwest airlines CEO was brilliant and I should start with my purpose and build habits and so on …

But I got to thinking whether I haven’t stumbled on a way to double or triple time lately. Thanks to that cool iPhone that Mr. jobs invented and the fact that the family car went to heaven a couple of years ago.

I have three main goals every day no matter what else happens. Call it my foundational floor:

1. Can I move for at least 1 hour
2. Can I learn for at least 1 hour
3. Can I spend at least 1/2 hour on my top goal for the year (2017)

When I say move I don’t mean work-out or run … I count that differently. Here I just mean literally move, ride my bike or walk or move.

When I say learn I mean read a book, except I mostly use Audible because its A) Amazing and B) I am trying to be a super-dad and husband and crazy entrepreneur and so have very little time to read physical books [despite that huge pile of maurice’s].  So I read by listening.

When I say my top goal, aka maybe even a new years resolution, for this year it is to learn Spanish. Not necessarily master it, but be able to speak it if I went to Mexico, which coincidentally I will be doing in 6 months.

So since the family SUV went to car heaven I tend to walk most everywhere if I can. Even though it takes me longer, and I walk slow as heck, I still do it even though we have a new and cooler family SUV. Because walking is awesome.

But even awesomer than walking is listening to an audio book while I walk – Even a 7 to 8 hour audio book can be knocked out in a couple of weeks, just by walking back and forth to work. Plus sometimes I have a bunch of goofy quotes to throw out at work from the book I was just listening to.

So whats awesomer than awesomer? A triple word score of course.

Can I listen to spanish language Audiobooks while walking to work ? So I have been doing so most every day for the last few months.

And as an aside, Paul Noble is really good at teaching spanish … very well done stuff.

Is this a thing? I have heard of habit stacking. Is this goal stacking. Education stacking? Is this frowned upon as the evil “multi-tasking” that is becoming so un-cool lately?

I have no idea, but so far this year its working for me, and maybe its a good way to think about tripling time and connecting things that are important to me.

Connections seems to be the key. Connect them all up, save gas, and walk to work.

Just hope it doesn’t rain.