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168: The Formula for Living with Values

Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr.

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Harry Kraemer's *168* exposes a brutal arithmetic: everyone gets the same 168 hours each week, yet most people's calendars betray their stated values. Through his life-buckets framework—work, family, health, leisure, spirituality, community—Kraemer reveals how cognitive dissonance lets us claim "family is everything" while spending ten weekend hours on golf. From a Central Park conversation with his grandfather to forty years of silent Jesuit retreats at Lake Elmo, he builds a case for daily self-reflection as the only honest audit of how we actually live.

You'll learn:

- Why 15 minutes of daily self-reflection beats ambitious hour-long attempts

- How planning creates spontaneity rather than restricting it

- What Andrew Youn's One Acre Fund teaches about contribution at any scale

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