How To!: Manage Your Precious Time

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🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Joey is a young creative living in Australia who can't decide which hat to wear. Should it be songwriting, skateboarding, acting, or should he focus more on his day job as a retail clerk? Fitting everything in during the week seems impossible and he feels guilty when he can't cross everything off his checklist. On this episode of How To!, co-host Amanda Ripley brings in journalist Oliver Burkeman, the author of 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. He explains how he too once wanted to do it all, but eventually realized that it's just not feasible. As Joey learns, letting go of some things and focusing on what really matters can actually lead to the 'joy of missing out.'

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0:00.0	My Guy, are you supporting women's football?
0:05.2	This summer it's time to get to know the players and your taste buds.
0:08.9	Stats don't lie, if 70% of the UK prefers to taste the Pepsi Max, you probs prefer Pepsi
0:14.7	Max.
0:15.7	First for more, visit PepsiMax.wispotify.com to enter our quiz to win gig tickets and
0:20.5	find your perfect playlist.
0:22.3	UK blind taste test of over 34,000 people versus UK's biggest selling full sugar cola.
0:26.5	The verification goes to Pepsi.co.uk forward slash FAQ.
0:31.2	Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill, with square wheels.
0:40.7	But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business.
0:45.9	So you can stay one step ahead.
0:48.1	Soon it'll feel more like free-wailing downhill, on a tandem, with a messer on the back.
0:55.0	Oh, that's nice.
0:56.7	Search zero with an ex, because healthy business is beautiful business.
1:02.2	So I work in retail.
1:04.6	I've had this job for about four years as just like a, we call it a checkout chick,
1:11.2	in a grocery store.
1:13.2	A checkout chick?
1:14.2	Is that recent?
1:15.2	Yeah, that's the colloquialism here.
1:19.3	Oliver, is this a Britishism?
1:21.3	I think this is one of the many uniquely Australian ways of births.
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