Thank you for joining us for episode 401 of Live Happy Now.

Do you feel like you have plenty of time to do all the things you need to get done?

Or are you like the rest of us who are just trying to fit it all in?

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Cassie Holmes,

an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness and author of Happier Hour, How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.

Cassie is here today to talk about what it means to feel time poor and why that has become so prevalent today.

Then she'll explain how we can learn to better

structure our days and begin using our time instead of losing it. Let's have a listen.

Cassie, thank you for coming on Live Happy Now. Thanks so much for having me, Paula. I'm excited to chat

with you. Well, you have written an amazing book that takes on a huge topic

that so many people are dealing with today. And I think before we really dive into that,

can you clarify by telling us what you mean when you say time poverty? Yeah, time poverty is the

acute feeling of having too much to do and not enough time to do it.

And I am sure even if you haven't heard that term before, everyone knows exactly what that is

because they felt it's really prevalent.

We conducted a national poll that showed that nearly half of Americans feel time poor, that they

don't have enough time to do what they set out to do. That's amazing. Because I mentioned this book

to my nurse practitioner when I was seeing her a couple weeks ago. And she was like, time poor,

I'm not familiar with that. And I explained not as eloquently as you just

did. And she was like, so that's what you call it. So yeah, exactly. Like you said, and even if they

haven't heard the term, everyone has experienced this. And I find myself saying a lot like, okay,

our parents didn't live this way. What happened? Where did the time go? And why is it that we are all living

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