Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel Where You’re Losing Time and How to Get It Back
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Sep 14, 2026 
Laura Vanderkam, bestselling author and time-management researcher, explores why time scarcity may be more perception than fact. She reveals the hidden hours in weekday evenings and weekends, how email quietly consumes attention, and why tracking time beats relying on memory. They discuss tiny experiments, protecting meaningful work, making room for play and possibility, learning AI, and redefining ambition around impact.
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Scarcity Thinking Creates More Wasted Time
- Believing you have no time discourages you from deciding what deserves your time.
- Small gaps then default to headlines, Instagram, or algorithms, potentially consuming an hour daily.
Track Time Before Trying To Fix It
- Track your time before trying to manage it, just as you would track spending to understand debt.
- Data exposes whether the suspected problem actually consumes your time.
The 168-Hour View Reveals Hidden Capacity
- A week contains 168 hours, making nonwork time more substantial than daily thinking suggests.
- Even a 40-hour job and 56 hours of sleep leave 72 hours for everything else.
