813: How to Make Time for the Things that Matter with Laura Vanderkam

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Laura Vanderkam reveals the secret to carving out time for what’s truly important.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The right way to do leisure time

2) The perfect day to do your planning

3) How to make your schedule more flexible

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— ABOUT LAURA —

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including The New Corner Office, Juliet's School of Possibilities, Off the Clock, I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fortune. She is the host of the podcast Before Breakfast and the co-host, with Sarah Hart-Unger, of the podcast Best of Both Worlds.

• Book: Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters

• Website: LauraVanderkam.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.1	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.1	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites.
0:16.1	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 813 with Laura Vandercam.
0:22.8	Laura is back with more insight on how to carve out time or what's truly important, experience
0:28.4	more satisfaction with how you spend your time and, thusly, your very life.
0:33.0	So learn one, the right way to do leisure time, two, the perfect day to do your planning
0:37.4	and three, how to make your schedule more flexible.
0:40.2	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Alan's
0:42.6	brief reference, please visit us over at awesome at your job.com slash EP 813 and check
0:47.3	out some of our goodies over at awesome at your job.com, like transcripts and more.
0:51.6	Now here's Laura's story.
0:53.0	Laura Vandercam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including
0:56.8	the new corner office, Juliette's school of possibilities off the clock.
1:00.1	I know how she does it.
1:01.4	What the most successful people do before breakfast and at 168 hours.
1:05.1	Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast
1:08.8	Company, and Fortune.
1:10.3	She's the host of the podcast before breakfast and the co-host with Sarah Hart Unger of the
1:14.2	podcast Best of Both Worlds.
1:16.9	Big thanks to Laura for sharing her wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors.
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