Book Titles

Time Smart
How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

By Ashley Whillans

Year Published: 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1633698352
Categories: Happiness, Life, Time

49 Quotes Found

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Time Smart:

…to significantly improve your time affluence you need a plan, along with strategies to help you make decisions.

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…we should ask ourselves whether we can focus more on accumulating productive, pleasurable, or meaningful experiences…

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Being stuck in tasks we don’t like and can’t control is one of the leading causes of time poverty.

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…the easiest and most obvious path to greater time affluence is to deliberately choose to spend more time on activities that bring you joy, and less time on activities that bring you misery.

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The key is to identify the time you don’t like and look for ways to transform it.

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Free time devoted to active leisure… promotes happiness far more than spending time engaged in passive leisure activities…

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The benefits of having high-quality social connections are similar to those of getting regular exercise and not smoking.

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Taking scenic hikes or spending a few moments looking up into the sky can rejuvenate you. Awe-inspiring experiences reduce time stress.

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To decide whether outsourcing is worth it to you, ask yourself whether your time is worth more than what it would cost to outsource some of your most negative and unproductive experiences.

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…think critically about your disliked tasks. Look to find the most disliked part of the task you don’t like doing.

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