Laura Vanderkam

I was just reading a book and I cannot remember what it was, but the author, whoever it was, was talking about how their professor assigned them.

It might've been Laura Vanderkam anyway, but assigned them.

Their first assignment was to go to a museum and go and look at a piece of art for an hour.

Wow.

And then the third one is going way back to an early days of the productivity show.

We had Laura Vanderkam on, and I know she wrote a book called 168 hours, which is a really great book on this topic of what we're talking about today.

So I figured we'd give that one a look.

So my third resource is 168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam.

And we will have links to everything here at asianefficiency.com. Just swipe in your podcast player when it's there or hit that Gemini button in Gmail.

Awesome.

Same with plans.

In the meantime, this is Laura.

Thanks for listening.

And here's to making the most of our time.

And that really helps me to identify where, um, where I'm wasting time.

I read a book by an author called, I think her name is Laura Vanderkam.

I don't know how she does it, but she's written many, many books about time management.

That's been really impactful for me because I think what I find every time I do that is I actually have way more time than I think I do and I waste a lot of time.

The pub date is what it is simply because that's when the book is ready.

To give you an example, Laura Vanderkam, who writes primarily in the productivity space, once said that after she went through the process of book proposal to contract, the next available spot in her publisher's production calendar was May.

And so she went on to write her first draft, then go through editing and copy editing, galley proofs, the whole shebang.

She hit all her deadlines.

In mental or role model, I just wanted to note that here...

I've actually put Laura Vanderkam and Sarah Hart Unger, both who've been guests on this podcast, but really they are my role models in the podcasting world.

And they're probably the reason why I podcast.

If I need to, I guess I could reach out to them and ask them for some advice.

There are lots of different filters you can apply for time tracking.

If you're interested in doing this, I'd really recommend Laura Vanderkam's work.

She's a previous guest on the podcast and on her website, she has sort of a time tracking template, which can really help.

The point of this is you can spot patterns, patterns in where your energy's going.