How to Schedule Your Day for Peak Enjoyment, with Laura Vanderkam
01/04/23 • 61 min
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#421: Life is busy.
We spend too much time on chores, errands, commuting, emails and other draining tasks. We lack time for joy and hobbies.
Or do we?
Today’s guest, Laura Vanderkam, talks to us about how to make the most of our time and carve out more space for gratifying experiences.
Laura Vanderkam is a time management and productivity expert. Her latest work, “Tranquility By Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters” shares actionable steps to help you fill your schedule with more of what you love.
Enjoy!
Timing of discussion points as of January 2023:
06:06: Where the time management focus should land
13:44: What is tranquility?
15:22: How to structure your hours
16:33: Set your bedtime: the foundational rule for time management
24:18: The power of planning on Fridays
29:05: Move your body by 3 pm
35:02: Create “backup slots”
37:10: The impact of various time management guidelines
38:43: The Big Adventures Rule
44:06: Taking a night for yourself
47:51: Batch the little things
50:16: The effortful before the effortless
For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode421
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#421: Life is busy.
We spend too much time on chores, errands, commuting, emails and other draining tasks. We lack time for joy and hobbies.
Or do we?
Today’s guest, Laura Vanderkam, talks to us about how to make the most of our time and carve out more space for gratifying experiences.
Laura Vanderkam is a time management and productivity expert. Her latest work, “Tranquility By Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters” shares actionable steps to help you fill your schedule with more of what you love.
Enjoy!
Timing of discussion points as of January 2023:
06:06: Where the time management focus should land
13:44: What is tranquility?
15:22: How to structure your hours
16:33: Set your bedtime: the foundational rule for time management
24:18: The power of planning on Fridays
29:05: Move your body by 3 pm
35:02: Create “backup slots”
37:10: The impact of various time management guidelines
38:43: The Big Adventures Rule
44:06: Taking a night for yourself
47:51: Batch the little things
50:16: The effortful before the effortless
For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode421
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Previous Episode
What We Learned in 2022
#420: Harvard professor Arthur Brooks described two types of intelligence – and explained, in scientific terms, the wisdom that comes with age.
Dr. Ellen Vora, M.D., shared insight into the roots of procrastination, offering evidence-based tips for how to overcome our own inner demons of anxiety, fear and laziness.
Psychology professor Bill von Hippel described why too much happiness is just as detrimental to our long-term health and wellbeing as too little happiness.
Wall St. Journal columnist Spencer Jakab observed the perfect storm of conditions that gave rise to meme stonks and other oddities of our era.
Former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy argued for “strategic under-diversification” and explained the Sharpe Ratio.
Data scientist Nick Maggiulli explains the save-invest continuum.
And financial planner Bill Bengen, the creator of the 4 percent retirement withdrawal rule, talks about what most people misunderstand about the safe withdrawal rate.
These are just some of the highlights from the Afford Anything podcast in this 2022 year-in-review episode.
Enjoy!
For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode420
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Next Episode
Ask Paula: We’re Saving 72 Percent Of Our Income … and It SUCKS
#422: Emily is saving aggressively for financial independence, but it’s hard to enjoy the present. Is it time to increase spending?
Monroe wants to stop working. Forever. Which is more important: debt payoff or investing?
Another anonymous caller and his spouse dream of building a homestead on an expensive piece of land. How much is too much to spend on housing?
Given the high costs of moving, Sarah wonders if buying a starter home is the best decision. Should she and her fiance jump straight to buying their forever home?
Former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy and I tackle these four questions in today’s episode.
Enjoy!
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For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode422
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