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How to set achievable goals
How to create and stick to a schedule
How to break down large projects into smaller manageable tasks
What to do with time savings
Active leisure involves things like volunteering, socializing, and exercising. Passive leisure includes activities like watching TV, napping, or online shopping.
Active leisure promotes greater happiness than passive leisure. Spend your leisure time being active!
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Strategies to prioritize your time
- Address why - Do not do things simply to kill time.
- Allow slack time - Leave time for spontaneity.
- Know your calendar mindset - Is it time to move on to the next event or do events shape the schedule?
- Create i...
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Which do you value?
Start here. Which do you value more – time or money? There is no wrong answer, and your response can change over time.
But research shows that people who value time are happier, healthier, and more productive.
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How did it get so late so soon?
It’s night before it’s afternoon.
December is here before it’s June.
My goodness how time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
DR. SEUSS
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Traps that steal our time
Six traps make us "time poor" with too many things to do and not enough time to do them:
- Technology and the interruptions that fragment our time
- Money/work focus "I'll work hard now for leisure later" (spoiler: later never comes)
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Tips to save time
Try these ideas to buy more time:
- Outsource tasks
- Do less comparison shopping
- Don't waste time for savings (e.g. driving 10 miles to save 10¢ on gas).
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Understand the value of time
We tend to overvalue money and undervalue time. This makes us constantly fail to realize the tradeoffs we make between the two.
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Discretionary time
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Pair a good decision with a bad one
If you only allow yourself your vice while you’re simultaneously being virtuous, you’ll spend more time doing things that are good for you and less time doing the “bad” things.
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Moving may feel scary
Some studies show that recent movers report having more unhappy days in a two-week testing period than people who hadn't moved.
However, the social costs of moving are manageable. People often feel more lonely because they spend more time on a computer and...
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