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There are 168 hours in a week. This is your guide to getting the most out of them. It's an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. We tell ourselves we'd like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbies, and accomplish all kinds of goals. But then we give up because there just aren't enough hours to do it all. Or if we don't make excuses, we make sacrifices- taking time out from other things in order to fit it all in. There has to be a better way...and Laura Vanderkam has found one. After interviewing dozens of successful, happy people, she realized that they allocate their time differently than most of us. Instead of letting the daily grind crowd out the important stuff, they start by making sure there's time for the important stuff. When plans go wrong and they run out of time, only their lesser priorities suffer. Vanderkam shows that with a little examination and prioritizing, you'll find it is possible to sleep eight hours a night, exercise five days a week, take piano lessons, and write a novel without giving up quality time for work, family, and other things that really matter.
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Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Introduction PART 1 - YOUR 168 HOURS • 1 • - The Myth of the Time Crunch • 2 • - Your Core Competencies PART 2 - @ WORK • 3 • - The Right Job • 4 • - Controlling Your Calendar • 5 • - Anatomy of a Breakthrough PART 3 - @ HOME • 6 • - The New Home Economics • 7 • - Don’t Do Your Own Laundry • 8 • - A Full Life PART 4 - 168 HOURS, DAY BY DAY • 9 • - The Hard Work of Having It All Acknowledgements Notes Index PORTFOLIO Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Cam berwell Road, Cam berwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Com m unity Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty ) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in 2010 by Portfolio, a m em ber of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Copy right © Laura Vanderkam , 2010 All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vanderkam , Laura. 168 hours : y ou have m ore tim e than y ou think / Laura Vanderkam . p. cm . Includes bibliographical references and index. eISBN : 978-1-101-43294-5 1. Tim e m anagem ent. I. Title. II. Title: One hundred sixty -eight hours. HD69.T54V36 2010 658.4’093—dc22 2009046867 Without lim iting the rights under copy right reserved above, no part of this publication m ay be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval sy stem , or transm itted, in any form or by any m eans (electronic, m echanical, photocopy ing, recording or otherwise), without the prior written perm ission of both the copy right owner and the above publisher of this book. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other m eans without the perm ission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copy rightable m aterials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. http://us.penguingroup.com T