You can afford anything but not everything.

Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just

apply to your money, that applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention,

any limited resource that you need to manage, saying yes to something implicitly carries

trade-offs.

And that opens up two questions.

First, what matters most.

Second, how do you make decisions that reflect that which matters most?

Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice.

And that's what this podcast is here to explore and facilitate.

My name is Paula Pant.

I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast and today, one of the foremost time management

experts, Laura Vandercam, joins us to talk about the latest evidence-backed ideas in the

world of time management.

Laura Vandercam has been on this show many times before.

I believe this is approximately her fourth appearance if I'm not mistaken.

And she keeps coming back for one reason.

She is darn good at what she does.

Her ideas about time management go beyond the tactical.

Tactics are important, of course, but she frames time management into a wider context

and presents evidence-backed counterintuitive ideas.

I want to give you two examples of things that I've learned from her that come from previous

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