Feeling starved for time? Here’s a simple hack to making the most out of the hours in the day.
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LAURA VANDERKAM: Well, the first thing I would tell people who are worried about not having enough time in the day is to stop looking at your life in terms of days. We all say, you know, there’s not enough hours in the day to get to everything I want to get to. And that may be true, but we don’t tend to live our lives in days. We actually live our lives in weeks. And so often the key to finding space for things that matter to you is to stop trying to do it every single day and maybe look at the whole of the week and see where you can fit it in. So if you want to exercise, you don’t actually have to exercise seven days a week. Maybe you could find three or four days a week to do it. Or maybe something like family meals is important to you. It’s probably not happening at 6:00 PM Monday through Friday.
Someone setting a pot roast down in front of you, Norman Rockwell style or anything like that. But maybe you could find three or four times to eat together in the course of the week. So first look at the whole of the week, see where you can fit things in. But then I think we can also take a good look at how we are spending our time. One of the first things I always suggest people do when they are feeling like life is a little more crunched than they would like is to try tracking your time. Most of us do not really know where our hours go. We might have a general sense of our workdays. I mean, particularly if people have to report their time somewhere. But the time after that can get incredibly vague and amorphous and we don’t know what’s going on and you wind up going to bed at some point. But what happened in those hours in between and weekends are an entirely different thing altogether. So try keeping track of your time. And I think you’ll start to see that there are things you wish to spend more time on, and there’s also probably things you want to spend less time on or that you could move around to try to make space for the things that matter to you.
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