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Modern Wisdom

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

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.65.9K 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... Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:22) Why Is Time Management So Overwhelming? (04:44) Common Errors in Managing Time (09:28) Creating a Life That You Enjoy (19:49) The Need to Set a Bedtime (25:06) Use Fridays for Planning (29:50) Do Physical Activity By 3pm (32:47) Form Habits by Doing Something 3x a Week (38:42) Creating Backup Slots in Your Schedule (43:19) One Big Adventure, One Little Adventure (50:12) Batching the Little Tasks in Life (1:00:19) Where to Find Laura Extra Stuff: Buy Tranquility By Tuesday - https://amzn.to/3hPdXTe Follow Laura on Twitter - https://twitter.com/lvanderkam  Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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

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