I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time
Audio CD – Unabridged, June 9, 2015
Description
"I'm a longtime fan of Laura Vanderkam's insightful work--her recommendations for getting the most out of every day are often counterintuitive but always realistic and manageable. In her new book, she reveals the time management strategies that highly successful mothers use to build lives that work. Thanks to her findings, I'll never look at my weekly calendar the samexa0way again."xa0-- GRETCHEN RUBIN , author ofxa0Better Than Beforexa0andxa0The Happiness Project LAURA VANDERKAM is the author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast , All The Money In The World , 168 Hours , and Grindhopping . She is a frequent contributor to Fast Company ’s website, and a member of USA Today ’s Board of Contributors. Her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal , City Journal , Scientific American , Reader’s Digest , Prevention , and other publications. She lives with her husband and three children outside Philadelphia.
Features & Highlights
- From the bestselling author of
- What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast
- , powerful insights from 1001 actual days in the lives of high-achieving women.
- Balancing work and family life is a constant struggle, especially for women with children and ambitious career goals. It’s been the subject of countless books, articles, blog posts and tweets in the last few years, and passions run high in all directions.Now Laura Vanderkam, the acclaimed time management expert, comes at the “having it all” debate by asking a very practical question. Given that we all have the same 168 hours every week, how do people who do have it all—women with thriving careers and families—use those hours? When you study how such women fit together the pieces of their lives, like tiles in a mosaic, the results are surprising.If you work 40 hours and sleep 56 (i.e. 8 times 7) that leaves 72 hours for everything else. Vanderkam explains how her subjects use those “everything else” hours; why we work less and have more free time than we think; why it’s a myth that successful women get too little sleep; and how women can have demanding jobs, spouses, and kids, and still enjoy a healthy amount of downtime.She shares the time-logs from 1001 days in the lives of women who make at least $100,000 a year and still make time for their families and friends, for sleep and exercise, and for leisure activities they love. Based on what she learned from the patterns in those time-logs, she provides a framework for anyone who wants to thrive at both work and life.
- Includes a Bonus PDF with charts and graphs.
