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Invoking your 25th

To keep it simple, it becomes known as ‘the 25th’ and it comes with three rules:

  • 1) the 25th hour is available to everyone
  • 2) you can use it at any time, but only once a day
  • 3) you’re not allowed to get angry when someone plays their 25th

Here’s how it works. Some might use it early doors. The alarm scares you into another dark morning, but you can roll over, hit snooze, text your workplace ‘invoking my 25th’ and go back to sleep for an hour. Or you get home from work, knackered, to a kitchen full of dirty pots that your teenagers couldn’t be bothered to clear up. You’ve got a dishwasher to empty, meals to prepare but, nope, you yell, ‘Invoking my 25th’ as you retire to the lounge, feet up, gorging on last night’s Love Island, with a cuppa.

Nobody’s allowed to meddle with your 25th. You have complete freedom to use it in any way you wish. Your boss demands your PowerPoint presentation, right now? Playing your 25th gives you an extra hour. It’s Saturday afternoon and your wife decides that ‘we should go and look at flooring’ and, all of a sudden, you begin to see the wonder of the 25th

The beauty is that by slowing down, you force everyone else into slowing down too. The meeting can’t start without you. The family meal can’t start without you. We’re not allowed to get angry so everyone has to chill. We learn to wait. Your extra hour gives everyone else an extra hour too.

Flawless.

What would you do with yours?