The Art of Manliness

7 Ways to Achieve Tranquility by Tuesday

Oct 24, 2022

Laura Vanderkam, a time management expert and author, shares practical strategies from her Tranquility by Tuesday project. She reveals seven rules to enhance productivity and satisfaction, including the importance of giving yourself a bedtime and planning your week on Fridays. Vanderkam discusses how short bursts of exercise can elevate mood and advocates for integrating fulfilling activities and adventures into busy lives. Her insights on task management, like the 'Friday punch list', promise to rescue listeners from the chaos of daily life.

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Laura Vanderkam

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Effortful before Effortless

02:18

Time Blocking

01:25

How to Make Time Feel More Memorable

01:25

Intro

4min

Harnessing Happiness Through Routine

11min

Incorporating Movement and Meaningful Activities into Busy Lives

6min

Embracing Weekly Adventures

8min

Mastering Task Management

5min

Strategies for Effortless Living: Bedtime Routines and Weekly Planning

5min

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.

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