Time Tracking Exercise

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The time tracking exercise is a really helpful line and it doesn't take a lot of extra time. It's not like its own activity. What you are doing is tracking your activities over the course of a week, writing down what you're doing. And then importantly rating, how you feel, coming out of that activity on a 10 point scale. At the end of the week, you have this amazing data set where you can pull out what are those activities that got those highest ratings? The most commonalities across them would be social connection or exercise.

This week I was excited to welcome Dr. Cassie Holmes to the show to discuss her new book,

Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.

Cassie is a professor of marketing and behavioral decision making at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and is a renowned expert in the field of time and its correlation to happiness.

In this conversation Cassie guides listeners through a variety of insights and exercises she’s shared with MBA students in her wildly popular UCLA course. Dr. Holmes unpacks concepts such as time poverty, what it is, why it’s damaging, how it’s subjective, and ways you can quickly increase your time affluence. We discuss how the use of time tracking can easily and quickly guide those suffering from time poverty to a more fruitful, fulfilling and happier pace of life.

In addition to sharing techniques and research that she has discovered while writing the book, Cassie also reveals some of the psychology and behavioral science that can lead to the sometimes overwhelming feelings of time poverty and the power of embracing quality time over mundane time-costs such as excess social media, and pseudo-work.

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https://www.cassiemholmes.com

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