How often do you get to the end of the day and wonder where all of your time went?
Every day? You’re not alone.
While none of us can add more time to the day, we can all do a better job utilizing the time we do have.
In the latest episode of “Why Are We All So Tired,” Laura Vanderkam, author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think, shares a simple hack to making the most of the day.
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TheStreet’s ‘Why Are We All So Tired?’ is sponsored by 5-hour Energy’s” Summer of No FOMO.”
Transcript:
Laura Vanderkam: 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.
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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