He suggested that when the time comes I hire a "houseman". A houseman is a complete butler meaning the houseman functions as a cook, maid, and is essentially an extended personal assistant.

He asked me how much of my day time-wise is spent on menial duties such as cooking, grocery shopping, cleaning, yard maintenance, laundry, paying bills, and endless miscellaneous errands such as washing my car, returning purchased items and other such time consuming exercises.

After careful calculating, I discovered that I averaged 2 hours per day Monday to Friday in such activities and up to 6 hours per day Saturday and Sunday doing more of the same. This totalled 20 hours per week out of a possible 84 waking hours or close to 25% of my time engrossed in unproductive activities. Multiply 20 hours per week by 52 weeks and the figure becomes a staggering 1,040 hours a year or 43 days or a whopping 6 weeks!

But this isn't just 6 weeks; it is 6 full weeks @ 24 hours per day. Run the math again and we see 87, 12 hour days spent in menial activities. So here I was wasting close to 90 days per year (25% of my life) stuck in a merry-go-round of acceptable living by most standards.

My mentor, whose name is Jorge (George) opened my eyes to the real value of time when I realized I could learn a second language with 1,040 hours of extra time each year, in addition to playing the piano, climbing Mount Everest, learning how to skydive, endless travel and the list went on and on.

Continued in Part 4...