Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance

ISBN: 1324110759

Author: Vanderkam, Laura

Condition: New

A beloved productivity experts mind-opening and schedule-expanding guide to making the most of every hour.Most of us have an adversarial relationship with time. Were constantly trying to beat the clock-behavior rooted in a fear that time is scarce and must be obsessed over, hoarded, and ultraoptimized. But what if there is a different way to view time, one that could make our hours feel abundant? What if we believed that we had enough time to advance our careers, enjoy meaningful relationships, pursue hobbies, and more? In Big Time, time management expert Laura Vanderkam shows us how to make this our reality.Drawing on original research about how hundreds of real people spend their time and her own experience of tracking her time for a decade, Vanderkam shows how even busy people can come to feel that time is abundant. Big Time offers simple, tested tactics with high impact, such as developing a ringmaster mindset; breaking big goals into daily, bite-sized pieces; and making little bets within a schedule to increase the odds of a breakthrough. Through actionable advice for managing a complex life, Vanderkam demonstrates how we can feel liberated by the time we have, instead of restrained by it.By turns surprising, thought-provoking, and encouraging, Big Time shows readers that the daily experience of time can be quite spacious-and that, managed well, each days hours can be a source of happiness and satisfaction. 4 charts