#128 - How time tracking can help you improve your life with Laura Vanderkam, author of Off the Clock

Feel like your time isn’t your own? Author and mom of four Laura
Vanderkam has an answer. Track your time. Laura believes that the
awareness that comes with time use tracking helps you find the
correct narratives about your life rather than defeatist
narratives you may have. For example, the fears “if I work full
time I’ll never see my family” or self care “I’m tired so I never
get enough sleep.” In Body Kindness we know that our thoughts can
get the best of our emotional well being and lead to downward
spirals. Laura wants you to see that these thoughts aren’t
necessarily true or helpful. You can adopt a “good enough”
viewpoint with time use and allow the information to help you
change how you spend your time where it really matters to your
values.


In this episode we discuss the intersections of mindfulness and
time use. How you can tend to your time like you would tend to a
garden and capture a sense of agency over controllable aspects of
your time rather than time passing without even noticing where it
goes. Plus I answer body kindness reader questions about “time
troubles”.


Links mentioned


Laura's TED Talk - How to gain control of your free time

Laura's book - Off The Clock



About Laura
Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management books,
including Juliet's School of Possibilities and Off the Clock. She
hosts the podcast Before Breakfast and co-hosts, with Sarah
Hart-Unger, the podcast Best of Both Worlds. She lives outside
Philadelphia with her husband and four children and blogs at
LauraVanderkam.com.


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