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Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques

182. Stop Chasing Time and Start Owning It: Communication, Happiness & Wellbeing

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques

Think Fast Talk Smart

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4.7 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Clarify your purpose — and stop wasting time.

The new year gives us an opportunity to reflect on who we are and who we want to be. As we set resolutions and prepare for evolutions, this special four-part series on communication, happiness, and well-being explores practical ways to enhance our lives through better communication, deeper connections, and more meaningful choices.

As Cassie Holmes knows, how we spend our time has a big impact on our happiness and well-being. For her, that means focusing on the things not just immediately in front of us, but those that most closely align with our purpose.

"When I say purpose, what I mean is what really drives you," explains Holmes, a professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management and author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Living a happier and more fulfilled life, she says, rests on using purpose to drive our decisions. “Once you clarify for yourself: what is your purpose? What is your why? Then you can use that as a filter [for] where you should be spending your time.”

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Holmes and host Matt Abrahams explore practical strategies for being more purposeful with our time. From email management to relationship building, Holmes shares research-backed approaches for achieving greater happiness through intentional choices.

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/ThinkFast and get ten percent off your first month.

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Chapters:

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (03:31) - Defining Purpose
  • (05:54) - Time Management Strategies
  • (08:26) - Time Tracking for Insight
  • (12:49) - Consolidating Tasks
  • (14:41) - Presence and Happiness
  • (16:44) - The Final Three Questions
  • (21:17) - Conclusion

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0:00.0

When it comes to time and happiness, it's not about how much time you spend on any given

0:07.1

activity. It's really about how you spend that time to have it have its big effect on your

0:14.7

satisfaction, on your sources of fulfillment, and on those relationships that are so important for both satisfaction

0:23.2

and fulfillment.

0:26.5

Hi, Matt here.

0:28.2

The New Year gives all of us an opportunity to reflect and focus on who we are, who we want

0:33.6

to be, and our well-being.

0:35.8

To help you chart your course and write your story, I'm excited

0:39.7

to invite you to our four-part mini-series on communication, happiness, and well-being, sponsored

0:46.2

by Better Help. Every January brings us 365 blank pages waiting to be filled. This year, maybe you're ready for a plot twist, or maybe

0:57.0

there's a part of your story you've been wanting to revise or explore further. Think of

1:01.8

therapy as your editorial partner, helping you craft new chapters and create the meaningful

1:07.6

story you deserve to live. Therapists from BetterHelp can help you write your story.

1:13.3

I believe everyone should leverage the support of therapists and coaches.

1:18.8

Visit BetterHelp.com slash think fast to get 10% off your first month.

1:24.8

That's BetterHelp, H-E- help.com slash think fast.

1:31.5

Having a clear purpose can help you focus on what's important, not what's urgent.

1:37.8

My name's Matt Abrahams, and I teach strategic communication at Stanford Graduate School

1:42.8

of Business. Welcome to Think Fast, Talk

1:46.0

Smart, the podcast. Today I am super excited to talk with Cassie Holmes. Cassie is a professor at UCLA's

1:53.4

Anderson School of Management. She specializes in behavioral decision making, and she's also

1:59.4

the author of the book, Happier Hour.

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