How to Recontextualize Your Time and Budget of Time

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The three steps are very much about shifting the perspective of the time that you have. Like if I'm doing exercise, that's changing not just my self-confidence, but my awareness of, oh no, I need to prioritize this and fit it in. Same thing with acts of kindness. It's, well, I spent that time not on myself, but somebody else. And awe, I'll go to a concert, for example, I go to concerts as often as I can. That is one of those things that's just so worthwhile,. depending upon the concert and the company going with me to the concert.

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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