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In this episode, I talked to time management expert Laura Vandercam.

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Okay, here's some of my conversation with time management expert, Laura Vandercom.

Yeah, there are so many ridiculous time-saving hacks out there.

And as you might imagine, I am somewhat of a student of this genre of literature,

because I'm always reading these, hoping I'm going to find hours in the day that I didn't know existed. The hacks are always things like clean the shower while you're in it.

Which I don't know about you. I don't think that's going to change my life and open up hours that I didn't know existed.

Or something like, you know, if you send a lot of emails where the answer is okay, just type

K instead of okay.

Because, again, we're not going to build these fabulous lives by typing K instead of OK in our emails, no matter how many emails you send, right?

You need to start with figuring out what you want to spend more time doing in your life.

And then you tend to naturally spend less time in your inbox.

So let's talk about that.

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