308: Laura Vanderkam: How To Create More Time In Your Day

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management books, including Off the Clock, I Know How She Does It, and 168 Hours. Her TED talk, "How to gain control of your free time," has been viewed more than 7 million times. She is the co-host, with Sarah Hart-Unger, of the podcast Best of Both Worlds. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and four children, and blogs at LauraVanderkam.com. Laura sent me a copy of Off The Clock and I could not put it down. The stories were so compelling and her tactics around time management made me straight up PUMPED UP about being a better time manager in order to create more time in my life and more space in my head. Take notes on this episode. There are so many fantastic pointers! Listen in to hear Laura share: The secrets of people who have all the time in the world How a mom or 18-month-old triplets created 3 hours of personal time for herself #everydamnday What she learned from time tracking her habits for 8,784 hours How to change your perspective on time and immediately have more time in your day How to better prioritize time for things you actually enjoy Why checking our phones makes us feel like we have less time How to use memories to expand the time Why you should plan your upcoming weeks on Friday and not Sunday (or Monday!) Links Mentioned: Connect with Laura: Laura Vanderkam Tune into Laura’s podcast: Best of Both World Laura on Facebook Laura on Twitter Laura on Instagram Thank you to our sponsors: Headspace: If you’ve been wanting to add mediation to your life, check out the Headspace app and get a free month trial at Head Space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.6	Laura Vandercom is the author of several time management books, including Off the Clock, I Know How She Does It, and 168 hours.
1:21.3	Her TED Talk, How to Gain Control of Your Free Time, has been viewed more than seven million times.
1:27.0	She is the co-host with Sarah Hart Unger
1:29.3	of the podcast, Best of Both Worlds. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and her four
1:34.5	kids and blogs at Laura Vandercam.com. So Laura reached out to me about her most recent book,
1:40.4	off the clock, and she sent me a copy, and I thought, oh, this is going to be great because time management for moms, like this will and I thought oh this is going to be great because
1:44.8	time management for moms like this will be perfect and I have to say I was like so sucked
1:51.4	into the book I thought I could just do a quick overview and I was like no the morning of the
1:54.9	interview I was like hold on Laura like I need to get through one more chapter this is so good
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