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Name: I Know How She Does It
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Author: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam

How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

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What’s in it for me? Master the work/life balance.

In modern Western societies, most of us have more than we have ever had before: well-paid jobs, social welfare and a wealth of consumer goods. On the surface, we should all be quite happy – but, of course, so many of us just aren’t.

A great deal of stress and misery in modern life comes from our inability to find enough time to both develop our career and enjoy our personal life. Most of us feel like we have to give up one of these essential goals, and concentrate solely on the other.

But this isn’t true. We don’t have to give up our job, nor spend every waking moment slaving away at it – we can do both, and these blinks show you how. Although they concentrate mostly on strategies for working mothers, there is plenty of excellent advice that everyone can learn from.

In these blinks, you’ll discover

why none of us has to spend the majority of our time at work;
the hour at which we are generally most productive; and
why the family meal doesn’t have to be dinner.

Interruptions make our work days seem longer and longer.

How much do you work? Most of us think we toil at work for far too long, and our work/life balance seems heavily skewed towards work. This is especially true of working mothers: the more time they spend at work, the less time they have to spend with their families. But is this true?

According to the 2013 American Time Use Survey, the average mother with a full-time job works 35 hours per week. Mothers who earn over $100,000 USD work even more – up to 44 hours per week.

This does seem like a lot, but let’s take a closer look. A week has 168 hours. If we sleep eight hours each night and work 44 hours each week, we’ve still got 68 hours per week that aren’t spent at work. So why do we all think we’re workaholics?

It comes down to interruptions: those small, unexpected events that break up our working day can actually make it feel longer. In order to measure her working week, one woman tried to keep her days as routine as possible to get an accurate measure of her time management. But it just wasn’t feasible.

Constant interruptions when she least expected them kept her from working at a regular pace. Snow days prevented her from going to work, as did days when her children’s kindergarten was closed and family events, from a christening to an airport pickup.

Interruptions like these make us constantly feel like we’re behind schedule and always needing to catch up on work. But we shouldn’t have to feel this way! In the following blinks, we will look how people, particularly working mothers, can arrange their lives in order to get the most out of their days, weeks and years.

Make the most of flexibility wherever you can get it.

Working mothers all know the feeling of guilt. Whether we feel like we’re neglecting our families or our career responsibilities, we end up putting a huge amount of pressure on ourselves to fulfill other people’s needs.

But this pressure doesn’t have to be there at all. As we’ve seen, there’s enough time in the week to commit to work and enjoy free time. It’s just a case of planning time to ensure you make the most of both. But how?

Play with your work schedule to make it as efficient as possible.

The first step to enjoying free time is preventing yourself from working too much. Of course, you could limit your overtime hours by clocking off everyday at the same time, but if this means you stop working before completing certain tasks, you might begin to feel quite inefficient.

Your best option is to start the day with your toughest task. According to a study by Johnson & Johnson, a person’s energy level peaks at 8:00 a.m. So, save your gossiping with colleagues for lunch and spend the morning working on the most difficult item on your agenda – the one that is most urgent, and requires the most effort.

Reflect and plan ahead of time to keep your work fulfilling.

The tips provided in the previous blink are easy and practical ways to improve your time management at work. There are two more techniques that will help you cut down stress in your job, but these require a little more thinking.

One strategy to streamline your week is to plan it before it even begins. According to a 2013 survey by Accountemps, Tuesday is the most productive day of the week with Monday lagging behind at only 26 percent productivity! Why is this?

Make sure your family time is quality time.

Planning is key to an efficient and flexible work life. But what about when it comes to your home life? Ultimately, your approach should be quite similar.

Spending quality time with your family requires some planning and the same motivation as your work life does. But remember: being around your family and being with your family are two different things.

Working mothers can and should make time for their romantic life.

When asked by the author what they’d do with more free time, most women answered they’d like to spend more adults-only time with their husbands or partners. Between juggling the demands of work and family, our love lives inevitably get neglected. But it needn’t be this way!

The key to finding time for romantic moments in your busy schedule is making it a priority and being creative with timing.

Let go of perfectionism and start seeking support.

There’s nothing worse than finishing work and coming home to a house full of pending chores. There’s no point in using time management to create free time for yourself if you just fill it up with housework. In times like these, it’s important to just let go.

Remember, you’re not participating in some game show that gives you extra points for empty clothes hampers or supremely well-adjusted children. So, how can you begin to let go of your perfectionism?

Personal space and time can be built with some simple methods and by changing your daily habits.

So you’ve made time for work, for your family and for your partner. Now it’s time to make time for yourself. If you still think it’s not possible, here’s a little experiment for you to try: get addicted to a TV show.

Think about it, when you are totally absorbed in House of Cards, free time almost magically seems to appear out of nowhere. You might find that you have half an hour after work and before dinner where you can squeeze in an episode. In fact, you’ll start to find free hours whenever you can.

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I Know How She Does It (2015) reveals how career-minded women balance work, family and time for themselves. Based on extensive research covering time logs to interviews, these blinks provide practical advice on time management for the modern working mother.

Wer I Know How She Does It lesen sollte

New mothers seeking advice on how to resume their professional life
Working mothers who want to rebuild their careers
Managers and employees seeking insight into the juggling act required of their female colleagues

Über den Autor

Linda Vanderkam lives with her husband and their four young children in the United States. I Know How She Does It is her third book on the issue of time management, after What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, published in 2013, and 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think, published in 2010. In addition to her writing, she has also made numerous appearances on TV programs, including The Today Show, and has published articles in various newspapers.

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