TED Radio Hour
New year, new habits: Fixing time management mistakes in 2025
Dec 18, 2024
Laura Vanderkam, a time management expert and author, shares her insights on making more intentional decisions in the new year. She critiques popular time-saving hacks that often miss the mark and encourages prioritizing activities that bring joy. Vanderkam highlights the importance of tracking time to uncover true patterns and celebrate small victories. She discusses how different personality types handle time management amid life changes and teases new habits for 2025, hinting at exciting upcoming content.
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Quick takeaways
- Common time-saving hacks often fail to create genuine time management improvements and can instead lead to lost leisure time.
- Tracking weekly time allocation enables individuals to reassess their priorities and dedicate more time to meaningful activities.
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Challenge of Time-Saving Hacks
Many common time-saving hacks are ineffective and merely rearrange tasks rather than eliminate them. For instance, activities like packing lunches the night before do not actually save time; they simply shift the workload to a different part of the day. This often results in lost leisure time that could be used for relaxation or other meaningful activities. To genuinely improve time management, it is crucial to evaluate what tasks are truly valuable and to identify opportunities to spend more time on things that bring joy and fulfillment.
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