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Being Time Smart with Ashley Whillans

The Behavioral Design Podcast

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Are You Putting Time First?

The individual exist in a very, very big system that's potentially much more influential in some of these things. Even just going from thinking about time as an individual resource to moving it up to the level of collective can be a game-changer for people. Your organization has a lot of bearing on how much time you have, you have available, whether you get paid vacation or not. And so it can also help people start having these conversations at the level of their company.

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Speaker 2
Yet it's deafinly reminding a little bit of the susteability challenge were. I think for a long time it's been this kind of mostly gilting individuals to say, like, hay, don't shower, as long as you do. Or like ha, don't er use it much plastic. But then, no more straws. The individual exist in a very, very big system that's potentially much more influential in some of these things.
Speaker 1
Yes, exactly. And i think that is a really key point that i don't want to lose sight of in this conversation, is, yes, 80 % if working americans report feeling time poor, that they have too many things to do not enough time to do them. Yes, some of it is psychologically driven. We over commit our future schedules. We say yes too often. We don't out source enough. We don't have we don't set clear boundaries between work and home. But that's not just by changing all those behaviors, you're not toget to hundred % time affluence. Even just going from thinking about time as an individual resource to moving it up to the level of collective as we're doi up to the collective level, rather as we're doing ind this conversation can be a game changer for people, cause it helps you feel more empowered. It's like you can take control over the things you can control. Ut you can also recognize that not everything is going to be up to your control. Your organization has a lot of bearing on how much time you have, you have available, whether you get paid vacation or not. And so it can also help people start having these conversations at the level of their company. Even if you're a manager and you run a team of three people, you can start having these conversations about how to put time first, as oppost a just being super focused on output, or ours as the metrics you talk about. To some of the teams we've been working with, we've encouraged them jo at pis for personal time, where they have to, at the beginning of every day, do personal check ins and say, this is the one or two personal things i'm going to accomplish to day. And then everyone on the team helps each other hold each other accountable. So the next day you check in about that personal k p i did
Speaker 2
you make dinner for your wife. If not, why not?
Speaker 1
It's a doing some shaming, but in a positive direction, to try toget teams helping each other prioritize and protect their personal intime.

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