023: Use Time Tracking to Live Your Best Life with Laura Vanderkam
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Laura Vanderkam, author of I Know How She Does It, shares her strategies from her research on how women who have a career and family make time for both. We're discussing how tracking your time and managing it is key to living the best, healthiest and most fulfilling life possible. Learn about the "scripts" we tell ourselves when it comes to how we manage time.
What's In This Episode:
- Laura discusses the idea behind her book "I Know How She Does it."
- Take a look inside how women allocate their time to both careers and family.
- See how time tracking can help you live the best life possible.
- Start viewing the week as a whole can help you look at the bigger picture & find harmony.
- Create sustainable patterns toward small wins.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 23. |
| 0:27.4 | And today, I have a treat for you. |
| 0:29.6 | I am so excited because I am being joined by Laura Vandercam. |
| 0:34.6 | Laura is the author of several time management and productivity books, including, |
| 0:39.5 | I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 hours. |
| 0:47.0 | Her work appears in publications, including Fast Company, Fortune, USA Today, and The Wall Street |
| 0:53.3 | Journal. She lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband |
| 0:56.5 | and four children and blogs at Laura Vandercam.com. Today we are going to be talking about |
| 1:02.8 | tracking your time, changing our mindset, and I am so excited for you to hear all of Laura's |
| 1:08.9 | pearls of wisdom, so let's dive right in. I am so pleased to have |
| 1:13.8 | Laura Vandercam here with me today. Thank you for joining me, Laura. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:19.1 | Absolutely. So as I mentioned, Laura is a genius when it comes to time management. So can you |
| 1:25.8 | tell me a little bit about how you got interested? |
| 1:28.1 | What was your story and how you became so interested in time management and time tracking? |
| 1:33.3 | Well, that's fun to hear you call me a genius on time. I wouldn't say that it's because I'm a |
| 1:39.6 | particular genius in it that I came to the topic of time management. I have been known to be late in such |
| 1:46.4 | things in my life. But I became interested in this topic, partly because I find the subject |
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