Over the next 30 years, I figure I’ll be saving myself quite a bit of time by making this simple “sacrifice”.  Though it’s really not a sacrifice, as the benefits are easy to see.

Here’s what I figure.

Say checking email wastes 20 seconds (in terms of waiting for the email to arrive, and also in terms of time spent to get back to what i was doing).

Assuming that I check email once a day, rather than say 4, I’m saving

3 * 20 seconds = 1 minute per day
365 minutes per year =  6 hours / year
180 hours over the next 30 years

If I had a full time job doing nothing but checking email, this would equate to me working full time for 4 1/2 weeks.

Working full time for 4 1/2 weeks for no pay only to only check my email?

No thanks.  I’ll find something else to do with my time.