#554 - Laura Vanderkam - 9 Strategies To Better Control Your Time

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Laura Vanderkam is a time management expert and an author.

Time is non-renewable. It's the single most important asset we have, and yet almost everyone wishes they spent their time differently. Thankfully Laura has distilled 9 of her best strategies from years of coaching people on how to control their time more effectively.

Expect to learn what everyone is getting wrong when it comes to writing their to-do lists, why intentionality is such a crucial skill to develop, how having a bedtime can fix your daytime schedule issues, how to make boring routine tasks suck less, a simple solution to ensure you do hard things and much more...

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Laura van der Kam. She's a time
0:06.4	management expert and an author. Time is non-renewable. It's the single most important asset that we have,
0:13.8	and yet almost everyone wishes that they spent their time differently. Thankfully, Laura has
0:19.2	distilled nine of her best strategies from years of coaching people on how to control their time,
0:24.8	more effectively. Expect to learn what everyone is getting wrong when it comes to writing to do
0:29.8	lists. Why intentionality is such a crucial skill to develop. How having a bedtime can fix your
0:36.1	daytime schedule issues. How to make boring routine tasks suck less. A simple solution to ensure
0:42.0	that you do hard things. And much more. Don't forget that you might be listening but not subscribed.
0:48.4	And I'm not kidding when I say that the next month is probably the biggest that I've ever had
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