C. PRODUCTIVITY. How to Feel Less Busy With Laura Vanderkam

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 21 April 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Laura Vanderkam gives her expert advice on feeling less busy, getting more done, and giving more value and meaning to your own time.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) How those who feel their time is “vast” spend their day

2) How to draw more energy by acknowledging the three selves

3) How to stretch your experience of time

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— ABOUT LAURA —

Laura is the author of several time management and productivity books, like Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think. Laura’s work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, City Journal, Fortune, and Fast Company. She has appeared on numerous television programs, radio segments, and has spoken about time and productivity to audiences of all sizes. Her TED talk, “How to gain control of your free time,” has been viewed more than 5 million times. She is the co-host, with Sarah Hart-Unger, of the podcast Best of Both Worlds.

• Laura’s Book: Off the Clock by Laura Vanderkam

• Laura’s website: LauraVanderkam.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Research: A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method

• Book: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

• Book: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

• Book: Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton

• Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

• Book: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job, introductory episode sampler six-pack.
0:04.7	This is where I'm sharing a favorite example of each of the key topic categories that we cover on
0:09.2	how to be awesome at your job. So this is the third where I'm going to share a taste of how we might go about
0:13.5	covering productivity and that's all about managing your time and your attention and your
0:17.6	resources optimally so you can get maximum results and outputs and so we talk about things like
0:23.5	prioritization delegation automation and self-care. So let's hear from Laura
0:28.2	Vandercam who's going to reveal how we can feel less busy. Hit it.
0:32.4	Welcome to the how to be on. can feel less busy. Hit it.
0:33.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant
0:38.0	professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:42.0	Enjoy more career fun. Wins. universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:42.6	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:46.6	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:48.6	Hello and thanks so much for joining us for episode 314 with Laura Vandercam.
0:56.6	I think you'll really love this conversation.
0:58.4	If you ever feel busy like there's just too much to do and you just don't have any time.
1:04.4	Well, Laura takes direct aim at this ubiquitous problem and
1:09.9	has some real research-based solutions and suggestions, best practices to share for how to deal with it and just feel amazing like you got all the time in the world.
1:18.6	Would that be refreshing? Well, it is possible. So you'll learn one how those who feel their time is vast spend their day
1:25.5	Two how to draw more energy by acknowledging the three selves and three how to stretch your experience of time
1:32.4	So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes or the transfer how to stretch your experience of time.
1:32.8	So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to items
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