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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

#86: Time is a Choice: How to Harness Productivity with Laura Vanderkam

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

Heather Monahan

Self-improvement, Education, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

“Time keeps passing, whether you think of how you are spending it or not.” Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day. And yet, the busiest people are not necessarily the most productive. How can we best allocate that time that we are given? Laura Vanderkam is a bestselling author, speaker, podcaster, and mother of five who has mastered the art of managing the clock. She lives every day with the belief that time is a choice. To be intentional about what we spend time on, is to restructure our lives around what is important. Join us as Laura shares tips and tricks on prioritizing, balancing, and planning our schedules to get the most out of each day. About the Guest: Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including 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. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and five children. Finding Laura Vanderkam: Visit her website: https://lauravanderkam.com/  Listen to Before Breakfast Read her latest book: The New Corner Office: How The Most Successful People Work From Home Watch her TEDTalk To inquire about my coaching program opportunity visit https://mentorship.heathermonahan.com/  Review this podcast on Apple Podcast using this LINK and when you DM me the screen shot, I buy you my $299 video course as a thank you!  My book Confidence Creator is available now! get it right HERE If you are looking for more tips you can download my free E-book at my website and thank you! https://heathermonahan.com  *If you'd like to ask a question and be featured during the wrap up segment of Creating Confidence, contact Heather Monahan directly through her website and don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you don’t skip a beat to all things Confidence Creating!   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Come on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals.

0:05.8

Overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow.

0:09.1

That's a no statement.

0:10.8

I'm ready for my close.

0:11.8

Hi, and welcome back. I'm so glad my close to. Hi and welcome back.

0:13.5

I'm so glad you're here.

0:15.0

This week is interesting.

0:17.0

This episode and actually the interview

0:19.0

that we're going to get into today is around maximizing time, finding some hacks to be more productive, and make the best

0:27.6

use of the time that we all have in any given week.

0:32.6

And it's funny, it really made me think this week

0:36.0

about a few different things.

0:37.3

A friend of mine was leaving town

0:38.8

and needed someone to stay with their kids,

0:41.8

so my son and I moved into my friend's house for the week so

0:44.8

that we could look after her two kids while she was gone and it taught me something

0:49.2

so interesting. One, you can always find time by dropping other things, right?

0:54.7

By prioritizing and sometimes you just have to let things go and definitely that's what

1:00.0

I ended up doing this week, because I will tell you three kids in Zoom School is much

1:04.7

different than what I'm used to and if you have multiple kids in Zoom school

1:09.1

you totally feel the pain however I'm used to one kid in Zoom school and it's interesting,

1:16.1

whatever you become used to and this is just so true, you find a way to make it work, right? So it could be anything. If your kid is suddenly put, you know, from regular

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