Email #32: The Days of Our Lives (7/22/16)

“Time is on my side”
-The Rolling Stones

Good song. Wrong message. Here’s some math.

How many days do most of us live? Let’s break it down.

Excluding leap years, because they’re too much of a pain to deal with, each decade is 3,650 days. By the time you’ve completed two decades, and for most of us that’s only rounding first base, you’ve already lived 7,300 days. Fast forward to 50 years old and now you’ve lived 18,250 days.

The average life expectancy of an American is now 78.74 years. That’s 28,740 days.

What if every one of us dedicated just one of those days to helping others? That would be a commitment of .00003479% of one’s life. Hard to believe we can’t all find a way to put aside the time to do that!

Every day we are given on this earth is a gift. At Areena we are asking individuals to RE-GIFT one of them. Take out a notebook or a Post-It or start an Excel spreadsheet and log the time you spend helping other people. Mow your elderly neighbor’s lawn. Hand out food down at the pantry. Just have a 20 minute phone call with someone living alone.

When you get to 24 hours, you’ll have quite an impressive resume of doing good. And we guarantee you’ll be so hooked that you’ll want to keep going, going, going…

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AREENA

From New York, NY 10036

To find out more about the project, contact Executive Director Jeff Hughes
Jeff@TheAreena.com

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347-642-9326

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