The Art of Manliness

7 Ways to Achieve Tranquility by Tuesday

Oct 24, 2022

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Effortful before Effortless

02:18

Time Blocking

01:25

How to Make Time Feel More Memorable

01:25

The Final Rule Is Efficient Before Easier

02:47

Introduction

2min

Is Your Work Descriptive?

2min

Getting More Control Over Your Schedule

3min

Do You Have a Definite Bedtime?

3min

Do You Have a Time Blocking Strategy?

2min

Move by 3 p.m.

3min

The Move by Three Rule

6min

Three Times a Week Is a Habit

3min

How to Make Time Feel More Memorable

3min

10.

One Big Adventure, One Little Adventure

2min

11.

Eight Rules for Dealing With Small Tasks

2min

12.

The Final Rule Is Efficient Before Easier

3min

13.

Do You Have a Bedtime Rule?

3min

14.

The Aum Podcast - A Brief Introduction

2min

A lot of people feel dissatisfied about how they spend their time. They often feel busy, but that busyness doesn’t add up to anything — not to fun, not to fulfillment, not to memories.

My guest, Laura Vanderkam, has spent a lot of time thinking about and studying time, and last year she decided to run an experiment to see if the insights she had gained from that study could help average people get a better handle on their time. She had 150 people try out nine different time-management rules, which were sorted into three categories: Calm the Chaos, Make Good Things Happen, and Waste Less Time. She shares these field-tested strategies from what she called the Tranquility by Tuesday project in her new book by the same name.

Today on the show, we talk about my seven favorite rules from Tranquility by Tuesday. Laura explains why you need to give yourself a bedtime, plan your week on Friday, make a “punch list” for tackling small tasks, and more. We also discuss the principle that can allow you to read a hundred books in a year.