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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

314: How to Feel Less Busy With Laura Vanderkam (Host of the Best of Both Worlds podcast)

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Laura Vanderkam gives her expert advice on feeling less busy, getting more done, and giving more value and meaning to your own time.   You'll Learn: How those who feel their time is “vast” spend their day How to draw more energy by acknowledging the three selves How to stretch your experience of time   About Laura: Laura is the author of several time management and productivity books, like Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think. Laura’s work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, City Journal, Fortune, and Fast Company. She has appeared on numerous television programs, radio segments, and has spoken about time and productivity to audiences of all sizes. Her TED talk, “How to gain control of your free time,” has been viewed more than 5 million times. She is the co-host, with Sarah Hart-Unger, of the podcast Best of Both Worlds.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep314 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:20.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us for episode 314 with Laura Vandercam.

0:24.0

I think you'll really love this conversation.

0:25.9

If you ever feel busy, like there's just too much to do and you just don't have any time.

0:31.7

Well, Laura takes direct aim at this ubiquitous problem and has

0:37.4

some real research-based solutions and suggestions, best practices to share for how to deal with it and just feel amazing like you got all the time in the world.

0:45.6

Would that be refreshing? Well it is possible so you'll learn one how those who feel their time is vast spend their day,

0:53.2

two, how to draw more energy by acknowledging the three selves,

0:56.8

and three, how to stretch your experience of time.

1:00.1

So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes

1:01.8

or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced.

1:04.4

It's over at awesome at your job.com slash F-3.14.

1:08.0

Now here's Laura's story.

1:09.0

Laura is the author of several time management and productivity books, off the clock feel less busy while

1:13.6

getting more done I know how she does it how successful women make the most of their

1:17.4

time and what the most successful people do before breakfast and a hundred 68 hours you have more time than you think.

1:25.2

Laura's work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the

1:28.3

Wall Street Journal, USA Today, City Journal, Fortune and Fast Company.

1:31.5

She has appeared on numerous television programs, radio segments, and Fast Company. She's appeared on numerous television programs,

1:33.7

radio segments, and has spoken about time

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