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Be Well by Kelly Leveque

249. 168-Hour Week: Take Control of Time & Upgrade Your Life with Laura Vanderkam #WellnessWednesdays

Be Well by Kelly Leveque

Kelly Leveque

Education, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest is Laura Vanderkam, author of several time management productivity books and a viral TED Talk. Laura teaches us how to plan our time in weeks, not days, and her newest book, Tranquility by Tuesday, shares nine ways to calm the chaos and make time for what matters most.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I think my favorite stat, with people agreed with the statement yesterday, I didn't waste

0:04.6

time on things that weren't important to me.

0:08.0

And agreement scores with that statement rose 32% over the course of the study.

0:14.3

And I think a lot of it was just, you know, stuff like doing the effortful fun before

0:18.1

the effortless fun, right?

0:19.1

You know, if you are reading instead of being on Instagram, you feel like you are wasting

0:23.1

less time and that came out in the numbers.

0:25.8

But even, you know, just having more intentions for your time in general that people were planning

0:29.7

an adventure is and they were planning in their night for them meant that they felt

0:33.4

they were spending less time sort of on things that they didn't care about.

0:37.0

And they were spending more time actively pursuing the things that they did.

0:40.9

Today's guest is Laura Vanderkan.

0:46.4

She's the author of several time management productivity books and her TED Talk garnered

0:51.0

over 13 million views.

0:53.3

Her newest book, Tranquility by Tuesday, tells us the nine ways to calm the chaos and make

0:58.0

time for what matters most.

1:00.1

In today's podcast episode, you are going to learn how to look at your time in weeks.

1:05.4

In the 168 hours you have in a week versus your days to prioritize the things that are

1:10.4

most important to you and really make meaningful memories and take time for yourself.

1:16.7

I love everything that Laura teaches and I'm so excited to have her on the show to give

1:21.6

us what we want most.

1:24.0

And that is time.

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