{"id":670,"date":"2010-12-06T01:35:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T06:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=670"},"modified":"2010-11-29T07:53:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:53:31","slug":"my-2011-personal-training-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2010\/12\/my-2011-personal-training-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"My 2011 Personal Training Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>It seems to be a good idea to invest a portion of my money and time to personal training or learning experiences. Some reflection on 2010 shows that I spend much more time than money on such. Perhaps in 2011 I will pry more money from my wallet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year I realized the concept of the personal training budget. When I was a government employee, I was able to work the system to have the government pay for training courses that I wanted to take. Now in private industry, such is not nearly as easy. Hence, I had to think for myself per learning experiences. I happened across an idea of using one-to-three percent of my income on learning experiences. That justified buying an iPad (see several posts with the tag iPad). I have learned a lot from having an iPad, so it was a good investment.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the iPad, I failed. I failed to spend even one percent of my <em>income<\/em> on learning experiences.<\/p>\n<p>I did succeed, however, in spending large amounts of <em>time<\/em> on learning experiences. By my calculations, I am awake 16 hours a day 365 days or 5,840 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the time I spent on learning experiences in 2010:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>daybook or Internet viewing: 1 hour per day = 365 hours<\/li>\n<li>two blogs: 1 hour per week = 52 hours<\/li>\n<li>reading books: 3 hours per week = 156 hours<\/li>\n<li>working with writers: 40 hours<\/li>\n<li>teaching (includes prep time): 120 hours<\/li>\n<li>journal writing: 61 hours<\/li>\n<li>attending lectures: 52 hours<\/li>\n<li>attending free classes: 60 hours<\/li>\n<li>wrote a novel: 45 hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These sum to 951 hours or 16.3% of my waking time. Whoa!!! That&#8217;s more than I thought. I&#8217;m glad I took the time to figure this. As an aside, I calculated this three times. Every time I calculated it, I thought of something else to add to the list.<\/p>\n<p>Now, how can I pry some money out of my wallet to increase the dollar portion of my personal training budget?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips It seems to be a good idea to invest a portion of my money and time to personal training or learning experiences. Some reflection on 2010 shows that I spend much more time than money on such. Perhaps in 2011 I will pry more money from my wallet. Last year I realized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[80,142],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-learning","tag-changes","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}