On Time: Laura Vanderkam makes every minute count

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

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🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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How do we make the most of our time? That’s the big question we’re exploring this month here on Hello Monday. Today’s guest believes that thoughtful planning can enable us all to use our days, hours, and minutes well. Laura Vanderkam is an expert on time management, and the author of nine books on the subject, including her most recent title “Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters.” Laura sits down with Jessi to share her favorite tips and tricks, including logging one’s time, time batching, and picking up a hobby. Follow Laura Vanderkam on LinkedIn and check out her most recent book here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now in paperback. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us this week on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News.
0:01.2	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill and this is Hello Monday.
0:09.2	It's our show about the changing nature of work and how work is changing us.
0:15.0	Our listener survey is up for one more week and I hope you'll take just three minutes
0:20.6	to fill it out. You can find it at LinkedIn.com
0:23.7	forward slash hello Monday that's LinkedIn dot com forward slash hello Monday or you can
0:29.4	always look for the link in the show notes. Thanks, it really helps us.
0:34.0	Welcome to our special summer series on Time.
0:41.0	Folks, we're obsessed with time.
0:44.0	We mark it, record it, plan it, and fill it up.
0:49.0	We don't want to lose it.
0:51.0	We're always trying to find more of it. But time is not the tool
0:56.5	that will help us live well. It's the backdrop against which we live. The
1:01.6	larger question is this.
1:04.0	How do we make the most of the time we have?
1:07.0	Over the next four weeks, we'll attempt to answer this question together.
1:11.0	We'll start with the tactical. What tips and tricks can we
1:14.6	deploy to be more productive and to make sure that no minute in a day is
1:18.8	wasted? There are so many guidebooks for this. We'll bring you the very best. Then we'll expand our
1:24.8	aperture and we'll look at time in weeks. How do we accomplish the bigger goals? Should we
1:30.5	rethink our concept of productivity altogether?
1:33.5	Then we're going to zoom out even further,
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