Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done
by Laura Vanderkam
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Time expert Laura Vanderkam advises that our perception of time is connected to our memory, which is why we remember trips and vacations as if they contained more hours in the day than our regular life does. To get this effect when we’re not on vacation, we can start each day by asking ourselves how we’re going to make this day different. Inserting one different or interesting thing into each day will help us perceive that day as having had more time in it.
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Author does guest spot on Great Leadership podcast
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The author shares some of her methods for making more of the time we have. The method she calls “letting go” is about trying to match reality with expectations. Most unhappiness comes from a mismatch of reality and expectations, so if we can’t change reality it’s better to change our expectations. One way to do this is to make short, focused lists, giving us the satisfaction of completing things rather than feeling bad about the uncompleted portion of a longer list.
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Laura Vanderkam chats with Peter Bregman via video call
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Bregman and the author chat about “maximizers” and “satisficers” and how maximizers need to let go and call a task done even when it’s not perfect and how they can make themselves go off the clock without a nagging feeling that they should be back on. Vanderkam challenges the audience to say what they were thinking about and what they were worried about on this date two years ago. The fact that most of us have no idea proves that most of things we fret about simply don’t matter.
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