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Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening

Beat Distraction and Expand Your Time with Cassie Holmes • 246

Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening

Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach

Mindfulness, Inspirational, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Consciousness, Religion & Spirituality, Spiritual Growth, Awakening, Mental Health

4.9906 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We will learn:

  • The relationship between the amount of time people have in their daily lives and their overall happiness.
  • Strategies to make activities that feel like a waste a little more satisfying.
  • How to craft your time with variation.

If you want to build the future of your dreams, you have to prioritize your future self. But that doesn’t need to take away from the bliss you find in the present.

The problem is, sometimes it seems we have our butts in high gear the whole time and there’s still just not enough time in a day.

So where’s the balance? When is it the best decision to chill vs pump yourself up? How do I make the most of my time? And even more importantly, when I do figure out how to make the most of my time, how do I actually get myself to stick to it?

So that’s what we’re talking about today. 

Our guest is Cassie Holmes. She is a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, where she is an award-winning teacher and researcher. Holmes’s work on the intersection of time and happiness has been published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets like NPR, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and more. She’s also the author of “Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most”.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Mind Love episode 246.

0:03.2

Today's episode is all about how to beat distraction and expand your time.

0:07.6

Actually having too much discretionary time in the day is also associated with less happiness.

0:14.4

Through additional analyses and studies,

0:16.4

what it seems that sort of explaining that

0:19.2

too much time effect is that we do want to be somewhat, we're sort of adverse to being idle, we want to have

0:30.3

something to show for some of the hours in our day.

0:33.3

We want to feel somewhat productive.

0:36.1

And when we have too much time, discretionary time,

0:40.7

it makes us feel less productive, undermining our sense of purpose, thereby

0:46.4

making us feel less satisfied.

0:48.8

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0:54.8

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0:58.8

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1:01.6

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1:04.0

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1:19.5

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1:23.0

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1:30.0

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