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

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Do you feel like there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done? Join us as we 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 nearly thirteen million views.

You can learn more about Laura on her website: https://lauravanderkam.com/

Thanks to our sponsor of this episode!

--> Ritual: Ritual wants you to know that nutritional gaps in your diet shouldn’t be ignored. Even if you try hard to eat the right things, most likely, you’re still not getting all of the essential nutrients you need on a daily basis. 97% of women between the ages of 19 and 50 aren’t getting enough Vitamin D from their diet, and 95% aren’t getting their recommended daily intake of key Omega-3s. Chances are, you fall into one, or both, of those groups. Ritual’s Essential for Women 18+ Multivitamin was formulated by exhaustive research to help fill nutrient gaps in the diets of women over the age of 18. Its nutrients help support brain, bone and blood health, in addition to providing antioxidant support.

Go to www.ritual.com to read how Ritual challenged some of the top scientists to reimagine the daily multivitamin for women. The result is everything they think a multivitamin should be. Better health doesn’t happen overnight, and right now Ritual is offering our Nobody Told Me! listeners 10% off during your first three months!

Visit ritual.com/NTM and turn healthy habits into a Ritual. That’s 10% off at ritual.com/NTM. Use promo code NTM

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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,
1:14.7	I'm off the clock, you know, same as if I'd punched out of a job. I feel completely off the
1:20.0	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?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nobody Told Me!, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Nobody Told Me! and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.