Laura Vanderkam: ...you should choose to focus on the times in your life when things worked in your favor

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Do you feel like there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done? Hear from time management expert Laura Vanderkam, who's the bestselling author of several books, including, "What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast", and, "Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done". Her TED talk, "How to Gain Control of Your Free Time", has had millions of views. You can learn more about Laura on her website: https://lauravanderkam.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.8	And I'm Jan Black.
0:16.2	It's a pleasure to welcome our guest on this episode, Time Management Expert Laura Vandercam.
0:22.1	Laura is the bestselling author of several books, including what the most successful people do
0:27.0	before breakfast, and her latest book, Off the Clock, Feel Less Busy While Getting More
0:32.7	Done. Laura, thank you so much for joining us today. We really appreciate it.
0:38.0	Thanks for having me.
0:39.3	So how did you decide on the title off the clock for the new book? What's the story behind that?
0:45.5	Well, I have a lot going on in my life, as I'm sure many of your listeners do too, between work and family.
0:52.0	And I had managed to get away with my husband for a weekend in July of
0:57.8	2016. He was meeting me in Maine, and I went for a run that morning. I was all by myself.
1:05.1	And as I was running along, this pleasant morning, I kept having this thought pop into my head of
1:08.9	what, what do I have to do next? What's the next thing on the agenda? Right. But the truth was, there was nothing. And I realized, I'm off the clock, you know, same as if I'd punched out of a job. I feel completely off the clock. And that sort of sense of time freedom kind of stuck with me because I know it's a very rare thing for busy people, and yet it's a very profound
1:29.4	feeling, too, and I wondered what we could do to try to capture that. And so I wrote this book
1:34.2	to try to figure that out. And how did you become a time management expert? Well, I've long been
1:41.0	interested in how people spend their lives, spend their hours. I started out as a
1:46.6	journalist and I got to interview a lot of fascinating people and I found I was always asking
1:50.6	them about their schedules. So writing about time management came out of that.
1:55.6	So I'm sure a lot of people ask you this, but what are people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk doing with their
2:01.6	time that the average person isn't doing that makes them so successful?
2:06.7	Well, I think there's lots of things beyond just the sheer way they're spending hours.
2:11.7	And even if you tried to exactly replicate, say, what Bill Gates or Elon Musk did with their hours,
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