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389. One Change to Go From Being Time Poor to Time Rich with Cassie Holmes Chaired professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and best selling author, Cassie Holmes, discusses how much time is enough. She also shares how free time is linked to happiness – and the importance of defining your values to figure out how to spend your time.  -The surprising statistic about how much time we spend distracted -The surefire way to finally feel successful in life  -How much free time you actually need to be happy -An exercise you can do to help you avoid deathbed regret  Cassie Holmes is a chaired professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness, and bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. The course that she developed and now teaches, Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, is among UCLA's most popular courses for graduate business students and executives. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are you tired of feeling like there's never enough time? In this episode, Dr. Cassie Holmes, award-winning teacher, happiness researcher, and bestselling author of Happier Hour, shares how to shift from feeling time-poor to time-rich. With actionable strategies and thought-provoking insights, she explores how spending time wisely can lead to greater joy and purpose. Tune in for a conversation that might just change how you view your most precious resource—time. Thrive Global Article: From Time-Poor to Time-Rich: Cassie Holmes on Crafting a Happier Hour About Our Guest: Cassie Mogilner Holmes is a chaired professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness, and bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Cassie's research examines such questions as how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one's lifetime, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. Across these inquiries, her findings highlight the joy that stems from interpersonal connection and paying attention to the present moment. Thrive Global Article: From Time-Poor to Time-Rich: Cassie Holmes on Crafting a Happier Hour About Lainie: Lainie Rowell is a bestselling author, award-winning educator, and TEDx speaker. She is dedicated to human flourishing, focusing on community building, social-emotional learning, and honoring what makes each of us unique and dynamic through learner-driven design. She earned her degree in psychology and went on to earn both a post-graduate credential and a master's degree in education. An international keynote speaker, Lainie has presented in 41 states as well as in dozens of countries across 4 continents. As a consultant, Lainie's client list ranges from Fortune 100 companies like Apple and Google to school districts and independent schools. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/lainierowell⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Website - ⁠LainieRowell.com⁠ Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@LainieRowell ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@LainieRowell⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Evolving with Gratitude, the book is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ And now, Bold Gratitude: The Journal Designed for You and by You is available too! Both Evolving with Gratitude & Bold Gratitude have generous bulk pricing for purchasing 10+ copies delivered to the same location.

Today is an extra special episode — it's officially our 300th episode of the show! I am so proud of this. In an appropriate nod to reaching the milestone of 300 episodes, we're talking today about how to make the most of our days, weeks, months, years — how to savor our time. We're chatting with Dr. Cassie Holmes about her 2022 bookHappier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. In the book, Cassie puts forth that time is our most precious resource; in this conversation, we talk about time poverty and how it impacts a life; how she got started in this work; if having too much time on our hands is also a negative; effective time-crafting exercises like time tracking; how we are less happy when we're distracted; treating our weekends like vacations; hedonic adaptation and what that means; and how her work is not necessarily about being time rich or making more time, but making the time that wedo have more rich. It's not about how much time you have, necessarily, but how it's spent. We also talk about why women feel more time poor than men, and how Cassie's work helps us look back on our lives without regret, knowing we made the most of the time we have.Happier Hourhas become a massive hit since it came out, and I'm really excited to share it with you today. Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, where she's an award-winning teacher and researcher. Her work on the intersection of time and happiness has been featured everywhere fromThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, NPR,The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and more, and she is a graduate of both Columbia and Stanford's Graduate School of Business.Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most by Dr. Cassie Holmes

Clarify your purpose — and stop wasting time.The new year gives us an opportunity to reflect on who we are and who we want to be. As we set resolutions and prepare for evolutions, this special four-part series on communication, happiness, and well-being explores practical ways to enhance our lives through better communication, deeper connections, and more meaningful choices.As Cassie Holmes knows, how we spend our time has a big impact on our happiness and well-being. For her, that means focusing on the things not just immediately in front of us, but those that most closely align with our purpose."When I say purpose, what I mean is what really drives you," explains Holmes, a professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management and author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Living a happier and more fulfilled life, she says, rests on using purpose to drive our decisions. “Once you clarify for yourself: what is your purpose? What is your why? Then you can use that as a filter [for] where you should be spending your time.”In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Holmes and host Matt Abrahams explore practical strategies for being more purposeful with our time. From email management to relationship building, Holmes shares research-backed approaches for achieving greater happiness through intentional choices.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/ThinkFast and get ten percent off your first month.Episode Reference Links:Cassie HolmesCassie's Book: Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most Connect:Premium Signup >>>> Think Fast Talk Smart PremiumEmail Questions & Feedback >>> hello@fastersmarter.ioEpisode Transcripts >>> Think Fast Talk Smart WebsiteNewsletter Signup + English Language Learning >>> FasterSmarter.ioThink Fast Talk Smart >>> LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTubeMatt Abrahams >>> LinkedInChapters:(00:00) - Introduction (03:31) - Defining Purpose (05:54) - Time Management Strategies (08:26) - Time Tracking for Insight (12:49) - Consolidating Tasks (14:41) - Presence and Happiness (16:44) - The Final Three Questions (21:17) - Conclusion ********Become a Faster Smarter Supporter by joining TFTS Premium.Take advantage of our Sponsor offer from BetterHelp

We go to the dentist, get our eyes checked, and get our cars inspected. These regularly scheduled health and safety audits let us know how we're doing. But we rarely audit how we spend our time. Sure, most of us have a calendar. Yet few of us study how these calendar events impact our happiness. We rarely track the connection between what we spend our time doing and how well we're flourishing. As a result, we can find ourselves feeling unhappy, frustrated, and what scientists call “time poor.” Researchers like Cassie Holmes want to change that. They've learned there's a strong connection between how we spend our time and how happy we feel. In her book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, she shares ways we can optimize our calendars for happiness, including ways to avoid distraction, extend joy, create a meaningful schedule, and avoid regret. Holmes' tips on time tracking and time auditing are simple and powerful. As the year draws to a close, this may be just the book you're looking for as we head into a new year. Episode Links Having Too Little or Too Much Time is Linked to Lower Subjective Well-being Our Flawed Pursuit of Happiness – and How to Get It Right A Valuable Lesson for a Happier Life (video) Trust by Hernan Diaz The Team Learn more about host, Gayle Allen, and producer, Rob Mancabelli, here. Support the Podcast If you like the show, please rate and review it on iTunes or wherever you subscribe, and tell a friend or family member about the show. Subscribe Click here and then scroll down to see a sample of sites where you can subscribe.

On today's epsiode I am sitting down with guest expert Dr. Cassie Holmes - an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness, and bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.  We chatted all about tangible actionable strategies for time audits, time crafting, and how to prioritize what truly matters to us in our day (even as busy working mamas)!To apply for Nourished, click HERETo connect with Molly, click HERETo connect with Dr. Cassie Holmes, click HERE

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Cassie Holmes is a Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Her first book Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most is a practical guide for how to think about and spend time in order to experience joy every day.  On this week's episode of Everyday Better, Cassie joins Leah to discuss her research on time and happiness. After dispelling the notion that more free time equals more happiness, Cassie offers tips for making the things you have to do every day – commuting, house chores, etc. – more enjoyable. She also explains the concept of ‘time crafting' and why it's so important to account for how we spend the hours in our days. Follow Leah Smart on LinkedIn. Follow Cassie Holmes on LinkedIn.

IN EPISODE 201: Our happiest hours are the result of counting our time - and making time count. In Episode 201, Cassie Holmes shows us how to get more intentional about how we spend our time to increase our happiness and fulfillment. We discuss the perils of "time poverty," how to track and audit our time, and why purpose is a key driver of happiness. Cassie offers practical tips to squeeze more happiness out of our days so we can go from being "full" to fulfilled. ABOUT CASSIE HOLMES: Dr. Cassie Holmes is a chaired professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management where she is an award-winning teacher and researcher. Her class on Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, is one of the most popular courses at UCLA's business program and she's the bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.

iPhone users have likely noticed that some texts show up in blue and some show up in green. What's the difference? This episode begins by explaining why that happens and what it means. https://www.rd.com/article/why-are-my-texts-green/ Have you heard the expression “time poverty”? It's when you have too much to do and never enough time to do it. Why live in time poverty when you can live in “time affluence”. Cassie Holmes is here to tell you how. She is a professor of marketing and behavioral decision making at UCLA Anderson School of Management and author of the book Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most (https://amzn.to/3QOReSV). Listen as she explains how to get the important things done and still have time for fun and pleasure. Is salt really all that bad for you? Do vegetarians actually live longer? Are sugar substitutes better than plain sugar? These are just some of the questions I explore with my guest Tim Spector. He is a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and the author of four books, including, Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We've Been Told About Food Is Wrong (https://amzn.to/3xQ77lB).Tim is on the advisory board of Zoe.com, a company that does research and offers personal nutrition (https://www.joinzoe.com) A lot of people wear the same shoes every day. There is a problem with that. Listen as I explain why the experts say you might want to think about rotating your shoes. Your feet will appreciate it. https://blog.schulershoes.com/can-i-wear-the-same-shoes-every-day/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! INDEED:  Get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT to get your jobs more visibility at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING  Support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast.  Indeed.com/SOMETHING.  Terms and conditions apply. SHOPIFY:  Sign up for a $1 per-month trial period at https://Shopify.com/sysk . Go to SHOPIFY.com/sysk to grow your business – no matter what stage you're in! DELL:  Dell Technologies and Intel are creating technology that loves ideas, expanding your business and evolving your passions! We push what technology can do, so great ideas can happen. Bring your ideas to life at https://Dell.com MINT MOBILE: Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month at https://MintMobile.com/something! $45 upfront payment required (equivalent to $15/mo.).  New customers on first 3 month plan only. Additional taxes, fees, & restrictions apply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With all the things we have to do as parents and as adults, it seems like we never have enough time to stop and enjoy where we are. But the truth is that being fully present and engaged can actually transform how we experience time—when we focus on what we love, it brings joy into those moments and creates a ripple effect on every aspect of our lives. Cassie Holmes, a professor at UCLA and a leading expert on time and happiness, shares how we can shift from merely managing our time to fully embracing it. How will you make the most of the time you have with your kids while they're still kids? Sponsors and discounts: Join my Weary To Revived Course Organifi — use code PGish to get 20% off Show links: Watch the full clip Learn more at cassiemholmes.com Read Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most Listen to Episode 280: Your time is your life, your life is your story, featuring Bert Jacobs   As always, I'd love to hear from you! Subscribe, leave a review, or follow PG-ish on IG @pgishparenting, or you can always find me at www.pgishparenting.com.

*This episode originally aired on January 28, 2023.Jonathan Bastian talks with Harvard Medical School Professor of Psychiatry Robert Waldinger about his latest book, “The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.” Waldinger is also director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the home of the world’s longest-running studies on happiness. The project has followed 724 men — ranging from “Harvard sophomores to inner-city Boston boys” — and their subsequent spouses and families, since 1938, and now encompasses three generations of people.  Waldinger says that although there is no blood test for happiness, researchers are able to examine and evaluate happiness from various angles.  “We ask people, ‘Are you happy? How happy are you?’ We also ask other people, their partners, their kids and follow their work lives,” he explains, adding that psychologist Sonya Lubomirski calculated that “about 50% of our happiness is determined by inborn factors, about 10% is determined by what our life circumstances are right now, and the remaining 40% is under our control.”  What was the surprise discovery from the study?  While it’s important to look after your health, eat right, and exercise, the most significant impact on happiness, Walindger says, was that “the quality of our relationships predicts who's gonna be happy and healthy as they get older … one of the most important things we need is a person who we know will be there for us in times of stress.” Delve deeper into life, philosophy, and what makes us human by joining the Life Examined discussion group on Facebook. Later, Jonathan Bastian speaks with Cassie Holmes, author of “Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most,” about maintaining a happy lifestyle. Time, Holmes says, isn’t just the problem — it’s the solution.  “Time is so important, because how we spend the hours of our days sum up to the years of our lives,” she explains. “And as we're looking to feel happier in our days and about our lives, it's crucial to understand how we invest this resource of time and to make the most of the time that we have.” Holmes offers some tools and tips on being happier and how to harness time towards doing so. She encourages people to “actually track their own time, write down what they are doing and rate coming out of that activity, on a 10 point scale, how they feel,” she says. “That will allow you to pick up on whether those ways of connecting and socializing are truly satisfying and truly fulfilling.”   

Are you constantly feeling overwhelmed, with too many things to do and never enough time? Discover research-backed strategies to overcome the chronic state of "time poverty" from award-winning professor Cassie Holmes. Her fascinating work at the intersection of time and happiness, explored in her new book Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, gives you a blueprint to reframe your relationship with time. Learn practical ways to savor life's joyful moments, nurture your closest relationships, and align your limited hours with what's genuinely meaningful - paving the path to maximum fulfillment.You can find Cassie at: Website | LinkedIn | Episode TranscriptIf you LOVED this episode you'll also love the conversations we had with Tim Ferriss about being present and intentional in life.Check out our offerings & partners: Join My New Writing Project: Awake at the WheelVisit Our Sponsor Page For Great Resources & Discount Codes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's conversation is with Dr Cassie Holmes. Cassie is a Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management, an author and an award-winning researcher of time and happiness. She earned her PhD at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and her BA at Columbia as a psychology major. Cassie's research has been widely published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets as NPR, the Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and the Washington Post. ‘Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most' is her first book. Our most precious resource isn't money. It's time. Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Professor Cassie Holmes shows how to improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Expect to learn the main predictors for happiness in life, the best strategies for using your time wisely in alignment with your values, the relationship between time poverty feeling too busy and time affluence, actionable frameworks for you to resist living life on autopilot, and even how to make tasks you don't want to do be more enjoyable. Today's podcast is brought to you by my Podcast Masterclass. The link to enroll is in the show notes ⁠http://mypodcastmasterclass.thinkific.com/ Connect with Cassie: Website - https://www.cassiemholmes.com/ Connect with Col: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/col.cambro⁠⁠ Email List - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mailchi.mp/548e38ba5942/colincambro⁠⁠ Support me: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠buymeacoffee.com/ColCamBro

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcast  | Amazon Music | Spotify Talk about your background and how you came into the field of behavioral science. Sometimes, we have to take a step back to take steps forward.  Can you explain why this is so important? Why does paying greater attention to time predict higher levels of happiness? What critical points do you want readers, especially parents, to take away from your book? I grapple with how to define what “enough” is.  Did this idea come up for you during your research?  If so, can we expand on this topic? What is the best thing about being a parent? Helping busy parents navigate the emotional and financial side of taking care of themselves and their kids. In each episode, we showcase the different struggles and hurdles families may experience through a variety of life transitions and the goals they seek. We provide you with insights on how to bring harmony between the emotional and financial sides of creating and reaching your family's purpose. Show Points The emotional angle The financial angle Cap: Summarize the tips/takeaway Cap: 1 action step everyone can take today to get started   Resources Featured in This Episode: Cassie Holmes Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most Hal Hershfield - Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today Work With Paul Contact Paul at https://www.tammacapital.com/contact or use this scheduling tool to set up your free alignment meeting.

Cassie Holmes is an award-winning marketing professor at UCLA and the bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Her book was called a “must read” by Forbes, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times, and was featured on the Today Show, CBS Mornings, CNN, NPR's Hidden Brain, and GOOP with Gwyneth Paltrow. Cassie's research has been published in leading academic journals, and the course she developed, Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, is among UCLA's most popular MBA classes. Prior to joining UCLA, Cassie was a professor at Wharton. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Columbia. In this episode we discuss the following: The answer for greater happiness isn't having more time. It's making our time more fulfilling. Looking at data of hundreds of thousands of working and nonworking Americans shows that people with too little time were just as unhappy as people with too much time. However, 2-5 hours of discretionary time, plus using that time in meaningful ways, was the sweet spot for maximum happiness. Happiness isn't about being time rich. It's about making our time rich. One way to make our time rich is to track our time for a week, while also rating how we feel on a 10 point scale coming out of each activity. Initial data shows that social media can set subjective and arbitrary expectations for how we should spend our time, thus decreasing our feelings of time richness and fulfillment. When we feel “time poor” we stop helping others. But helping others makes our time more fulfilling thus reducing our feeling of time poverty. Time management has traditionally focused on maximizing productivity. But by slowing down and focusing on tasks that are more meaningful, like having a nice conversation with a colleague, spouse, or child, we can increase our happiness and reduce our feeling of time poverty. To increase your happiness, take your grandma to lunch. She'll have perspective, knowledge, and wisdom gained through experience on how to spend your time meaningfully.   Follow Cassie: Website: https://www.cassiemholmes.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassiemholmes/ Follow Me: Twitter: https://twitter.com/nate_meikle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natemeikle/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nate_meikle/

This week, Cassie Holmes, Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making and author of “Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most,” suggests ways to value and savor the more ordinary moments and says when it comes to finding happiness, it helps to measure those less extraordinary moments in our lives. 

We go to the dentist, get our eyes checked, and get our cars inspected. These regularly scheduled health and safety audits let us know how we're doing. But we rarely audit how we spend our time. Sure, most of us have a calendar. Yet few of us study how these calendar events impact our happiness. We rarely track the connection between what we spend our time doing and how well we're flourishing. As a result, we can find ourselves feeling unhappy, frustrated, and what scientists call “time poor.” Researchers like Cassie Holmes want to change that. They've learned there's a strong connection between how we spend our time and how happy we feel. In her book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, she shares ways we can optimize our calendars for happiness, including ways to avoid distraction, extend joy, create a meaningful schedule, and avoid regret. Holmes' tips on time tracking and time auditing are simple and powerful. As the year draws to a close, this may be just the book you're looking for as we head into a new year. Episode Links Having Too Little or Too Much Time is Linked to Lower Subjective Well-being Our Flawed Pursuit of Happiness – and How to Get It Right A Valuable Lesson for a Happier Life (video) Trust by Hernan Diaz The Team Learn more about host, Gayle Allen, and producer, Rob Mancabelli, here. Support the Podcast If you like the show, please rate and review it on iTunes or wherever you subscribe, and tell a friend or family member about the show. Subscribe Click here and then scroll down to see a sample of sites where you can subscribe.

We make countless decisions every day, from choosing what we'll have for breakfast to determining whether we have the time to take a break from our busy schedule and go for a walk. Not all decisions require the same amount of effort. And while the big decisions certainly deserve our time and attention, it can be easy to overlook how the small decisions we make every day accumulate and influence our quality of life. In today's episode, we continue our exploration of how to master your wealth and well-being by offering a collection of concrete strategies for planning your life and your finances. Tuning in you'll learn about the small but significant steps you can take to improve both your financial health and your mental health, and how they accumulate to give you greater happiness and improve your quality of life. We unpack popular financial advice, like why you should invest in experiences rather than stuff — and the one exception to this rule — along with more complex ideas, like why spending time in nature is so beneficial for us, and how you can reach a flow state in more areas of your life. Be sure to tune in as we break down our good life principles and help you navigate the many small decisions that can amount to a much greater quality of life! Key Points From This Episode: (0:01:39) Good life principles and actionable strategies for planning your life and finances: how deliberate, small decisions accumulate and influence your quality of life.  (0:03:40) Why you should choose experiences over stuff — unless it facilitates experiences.  (0:09:11) Tips on maximizing your time and avoiding distractions with the ‘times left' exercise and how to pay attention to detail when forecasting future happiness.  (0:17:31) The value of reflecting on what you're grateful for and learning to be more mindful of small, everyday joys.  (0:19:02) Prioritizing time over money and what prevents people from doing this.  (0:21:35) The rule of adaptation and why spending time in nature is so beneficial for us.  (0:23:54) What you can do to improve the way you commute.  (0:26:36) Limits we have on our time and bundling good habits to be more time efficient.  (0:30:27) Finding flow states in your life, your work and at home; how this improves resilience, satisfaction, and happiness.  (0:37:20) The importance of relationships and engaging in prosocial behaviours.  (0:38:56) Decision policies: what they are, how to set them, and why they're so helpful.  (0:41:03) How knowing your values can help you in your decision-making.  (0:42:03) Using regret to your advantage, and how to ‘satisfice' on small decisions rather than trying to maximize them.  (0:47:10) Goal setting, and the satisfaction we get from pursuing goals.  (0:48:50) A quick recap of key principles discussed today.    Links From Today's Episode: Benjamin Felix — https://www.pwlcapital.com/author/benjamin-felix/  Benjamin on X — https://twitter.com/benjaminwfelix Benjamin on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminwfelix/ PWL Capital - https://www.pwlcapital.com/ Dr. Mark Soth (The Loonie Doctor) — https://www.looniedoctor.ca/ Dr. Mark on X — https://twitter.com/LoonieDoctor Money Scope - https://moneyscope.ca/ Give Yourself a Nudge: Helping Smart People Make Smarter Personal and Business Decisions — https://www.amazon.com/Give-Yourself-Nudge-Personal-Decisions/dp/1108715621 Episode 238: Ralph Keeney — https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/238 Episode 226: Colonel Chris Hadfield — https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/226 Episode 222: Cassie Holmes — https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/222 Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most — https://www.cassiemholmes.com/happierhour

In this final episode of 2023 Jen and I do a yearly reflection. We share highlights and lowlights from our lives, best books and podcasts we discovered, places we visited. By looking at our past challenges and goals, we make astonishing discoveries. Wwe share the top 10 episodes from this year, play your voicemails and set intentions for the new year.  Powerful Questions to Reflect on Your Year PDF-free download LISTENERS FAVORITE EPISODES  (LIVE Event) Updating Your Relationship with Your Parents-Part 2 with Daniel Maté (LIVE Podcast) Updating Your Relationship with Your Parents -Part 1 with Daniel Maté Making Great Relationships with Rick Hanson, PhD Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance with Kelly McDan How to Turn Self-Care Into a Way of Life with Dr. Judith Rabinor Uncovering Your Core Values Can You Use AI in Your Parenting?: Answering Your Parenting Questions-Anna, Laura and ChatGPT The Power of Acceptance with Seth Gillihan, PhD Growing Up in Public with Devorah Heitner, PhD Parenting The Most Challenging ids with Dayna Abraham Emotion Regulation for Parents with Hunter Clarke-Fields Strategies for Digital Well-Being: How to Reduce Stress, Gain Focus and Take Control of Your Life with Ann Seewald How to Regulate Your Nervous System with Jen Mann The Power of Deep Listening with Judith Rabinor, PHD How to Become a Better Listener with Guy Itzchakov Every Memory Deserves Respect: Finding Healing With EMDR Therapy with Michael Baldwin Parenting for Peace with Anna Seewald   TOP 10 EPISODES OF 2023 10. Cognitive Skills and Why They Matter with Betsy Hill 9. Living Well with Stress with Elissa Epel, PhD 8. Making Great Relationships with Rick Hanson, PhD 7. How to Become a Better Listener with Guy Itzchakov 6. Every Memory Deserves Respect: Finding Healing With EMDR Therapy with Michael Baldwin 5. Becoming Resilient with Anna Seewald 4. How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time and Focus on What Matters with Cassie Holmes 3. 13 Reasons Why Kids Don't Listen with Jen Lumanlan 2. Parenting for Peace with Anna Seewald 1. How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing and Underliving   SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com Make a one-time donation in any amount to say “Thank you!” Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes  USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening!  With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com

While most would be happy to have more money, the reality is that more money may not lead to greater happiness for everyone. For many, living a fulfilled life goes beyond finances, so can we increase happiness and meaning in life through the decisions we make with our money today? To explore this question, we speak with UCLA Professor Cassie Holmes and an accomplished financial advisor, Joseph Janiczek, MSFS, ChFC, Chief Executive Officer of Janiczek Wealth Management. In our discussion with Cassie, we discuss her book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, and her research into how wellbeing is affected by how much time we have and how we use it. We talk about how our decisions with our money may help us use our time in more meaningful ways for greater lasting happiness. Joseph speaks to how his firm has found ways to evolve client discussions towards a more holistic view of their clients' lives. Joseph shares that, through the use of creative tools, client meetings feature topics that go well beyond a client's financial picture to include aspects that matter to each individual's overall happiness. If you enjoy the show, please let us know by giving our series a five-star rating. We'd also love to hear from you on this topic of enhancing meaning through how we choose to spend our money. To join in on the discussion, send us a note at BehavioralDivide@AvantisInvestors.com. Important Disclosures The views expressed in this presentation are the speaker's own and not necessarily those of American Century Investments. This presentation is for general information only and is not intended to provide investment, tax or legal advice or recommendations for any particular situation or type of retirement plan. Please consult with a financial, tax or legal advisor on your own particular circumstances. Hal Hershfield is not affiliated with American Century Investments. The book Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Avantis Investors or American Century Investments.      

This week Andrew talks with Dr. Cassie Holmes. Cassie is an award-winning teacher & researcher on time & happiness. She's the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller & Amazon Best Book of 2022 “Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most”.  Cassie's ground-breaking research shows that even small changes in how we spend our time can have a massive impact on our happiness & well-being. In this conversation, Cassie discusses her powerful research & shares tips everyone can utilize to feel less overwhelmed, more present, & greater happiness. You'll hear actionable ideas on when to take pictures vs. when to live in the moment, how to turn routines into memorable rituals, the power of random acts of kindness, & so much more. Show Highlights: 0:00 - Intro3:17 - What is happiness5:16- Impact of how we spend our time5:47 - Why 46% of Americans feel “time poor”7:14 - Role of technology9:21 - The optimal amount of free time13:54 - Being more intentional15:42 - Burnout21:09 - Protecting free time22:05 - How to structure free time23:38 - Random acts of kindness25:25 - Creating a sense of agency27:23 - Taking photos vs. living in the moment31:23 - Ordinary vs. extraordinary experiences32:56 - Turning routines into rituals33:25 - Role of family traditions ** Follow Andrew On Social Media **Twitter/X: @andrewhmosesInstagram: @AndrewMoses123Sign up for e-mails to keep up with Andrew's podcast at everybodypullsthetarp.com/newsletter

In this episode of Empowering Workplaces, hosts Sanja Licina, PhD, and Maddie Grant welcome Cassie Holmes, a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and author of the best-selling book “Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.”This episode might just transform the way you think about time and happiness in your professional and personal life. Discover the surprising findings from Cassie's research, including the relationship between discretionary time and happiness, the power of turning routines into rituals, and the importance of savoring everyday moments. You'll leave this episode with practical insights to invest your time more wisely and find joy in the ordinary.

Tips for fighting the feeling of time poverty, figuring out exactly where you're wasting time, & setting intentional priorities in life.  the top things we commonly do wrong with the way we're spending our time how to know what activities truly make you happiest what the research says about how the happiest people spend their time  the number one way to enjoy work more how to know what you're wasting your time on (and exactly how to change it) the ideal amount of free time to have for maximum happiness (it's not what you think!) easy tricks to feel more time abundant tips for overcoming the effort hurdle of doing things that will ultimately bring you joy the simple math equation that will completely change your life and the way you use your time and so much more!  For more from Cassie, find her at cassiemholmes.com and check out her new book Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthiertogetherpodcast. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Pre-order my new book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now!  This episode is sponsored by: Seed: go to seed.com/lizmoody and use code LIZMOODY for 25% off your first month. Thrive Market: go to thrivemarket.com/LIZMOODY for $80 in free groceries. LMNT: go to DrinkLMNT.com/Liz a to get a free LMNT sample pack with any order.  AG1: visit http://drinkag1.com/lizmoody and get your FREE year supply of Vitamin D and 10 free travel packs today.  Cover art by Zack. Music by Alex Ruimy.

Maura Thomas shows you how to create a distraction-free work environment to make time for the tasks that matter most. — YOU'LL LEARN — 1) The underlying cause of derailed productivity. 2) How multitasking hurts your productivity and attention. 3) The two questions that will help you eliminate distractions. Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep893 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT MAURA — Maura Nevel Thomas is an award-winning international speaker and trainer on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance, and the most widely-cited authority on attention management. Her proprietary Empowered Productivity™ System has been embraced by the likes of NASA, Dyson, and Google. She is a TEDx Speaker, founder of Regain Your Time, author of six bestselling books, and was named a Top Leadership Speaker in Inc. Magazine. Maura is frequently featured in major business outlets including Business Insider, Fast Company, and Washington Post, and she's also a regular contributor to both Forbes and the Harvard Business Review, with articles there viewed over a million times. • Book: Attention Management: How to Create Success and Gain Productivity ― Every Day (Empowered Productivity, 1) • Book: Everyone Wants to Work Here: Attract the Best Talent, Energize Your Team, and Be the Leader in Your Market (Empowered Productivity) • Forbes article: "Why Leaders Should Want Their Employees To Quiet Quit" • Website: MauraThomas.com — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • App: Blinkist • App: Todoist • App: Twist • Book: The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker • Book: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill • Book: Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge • Company: Doist • Personality: Frank Kick • Personality: Gloria Mark — THANK YOU, SPONSORS! — • Factor. Get healthy, quick, delicious meals at factormeals.com/beawesome50.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our most precious resource isn't money. It's time. We are allotted just 24 hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling “time poor.” Since we can't add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives as richer?

Cassie Holmes shares powerful strategies for finding more meaning and fulfillment from your hours. — YOU'LL LEARN — 1) Why more time doesn't make us more happy. 2) Two tricks to make drudgery feel more enjoyable. 3) How to keep distractions from hijacking your attention. Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep884 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT CASSIE — Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness, and author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Happier Hour was selected as a Forbes Must-Read and a Next Big Idea Club Must-Read for 2022, as well as an Amazon Best Business Book of 2022. It's also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Today Show, CBS Mornings, and much other media. Holmes's academic research has been widely published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets as The Economist, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more. The course that she developed and now teaches, Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, is among UCLA's most popular for MBAs. Prior to joining UCLA, Cassie was a tenured faculty member at Wharton, and she has a Ph.D. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Columbia. • Book: Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most • Study: “Having Too Little or Too Much Time Is Linked to Lower Subjective Well-Being” with Marissa A. Sharif and Hal Hershfield • Course: Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design • LinkedIn: Cassie Holmes • Website: CassieMHolmes.com — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Study: American Time Use Survey • Book: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns • Book: The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's common to take a vacation every once in a while, but what about during the weekends? How can we treat our weekends like a vacation? Let's Get Moving Host Maria Shilaos speaks with Cassie Holmes, Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, to learn how making the most of our weekends can greatly benefit us. Instagram: @movingmaria Facebook: Let's Get Moving with Maria Website: https://linktr.ee/letsgetmovingwithmariaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's the daily free time sweet spot? Between two to five hours, according to today's guest, professor and researcher Cassie Holmes. In this conversation, you'll hear about the wedding that wasn't — sparking Cassie's quest to determine the areas of highest agency for improving our own happiness, why time well spent is such a big factor to that end, the powerful question her now husband opened with on their first date, and how to buy better time. More About Cassie: Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness, and bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.

Medieval monks and modern business school profs agree that our bone-deep addition to distracting ourselves is keeping us from happiness, meaning and productivity. Which perhaps will be no surprise to people listening to a podcast called The Pocket Contemplative! That said, Dave Schmelzer dives into the wisdom from those monks and professors and how it might both cheer you up and empower a fresh way forward.Mentioned on this podcast:The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction by Jamie KreinerHappier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, by Cassie Holmes"The Time Jar" YouTube Video by Meir KayCharlie Kaufman on distraction, from Adaptation

This was a fascinating chat about happiness; how it works, how it varies from person to person (as an experience), its relationship with self-awareness and gratitude, its relationship with ‘success' and how it is affected by biology, psychology and sociology. Our guest, Cassie Holmes, is a Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, she is an expert on time and happiness and also the author of ‘Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most'. Cassie's research examines such questions as how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one's lifetime, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. I loved my chat with the Prof. Enjoy. cassiemholmes.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Focusing On What Really Matters When you don't have enough time, what's the first thing that gets cut from your schedule? Now, of course, the answer is “it depends.” But I asked this question recently on LinkedIn and got a flood of responses. The most common category was self-care: exercising, sleeping, even eating. Two other big categories were time with others and time to think. Maybe you can relate to these. Left to my own devices, I sure can. But when you think about it, you would never design your life that way, right? Each of those represents areas that are critical to our success. And I'm not just talking about success with our projects or at work. If we're not taking care of ourselves, taking time to think and reflect, and investing in others, it impacts nearly every dimension of life. And it can lead us to hitting a birthday and wondering, how did I get here? If that sounds like a depressing start to this episode, I have good news. I'm joined today by the author of one of my favorite new books. Cassie Holmes joins us to discuss her book Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. What I expected to be just another time management guide turns out to be a book on happiness that I consider a must-read. Learn more about Cassie and her book at CassieMHolmes.com/.   For more episodes related to focusing on what matters most, check out these episodes: Episode 174, with Amy Blankson about her book The Future of Happiness. Episode 136, with Michele Geilen about her book Broadcasting Happiness. Episode 309, with Ashley Whillans about her book Time Smart. These authors are not just writers--they are researchers who make their work accessible and actionable to us all. Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Power Skills   The following music was used for this episode: Music: Emotionalism by Alexander Nakarada Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/5867-emotionalism License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: Music: Road Trip by Frank Schroeter Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/9761-road-trip License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frank.schroeter.52

Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and an award-winning teacher and researcher of time and happiness. She earned her PhD at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and her BA at Columbia as a psychology major. Cassie's research has been widely published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets as NPR, the Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and the Washington Post. ‘Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most' is her first book. Our most precious resource isn't money. It's time. Everyone is allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling “time poor.” Since we can't add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives as richer?Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Professor Cassie Holmes shows how to improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Our podcast provides empirically based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to spend your hours and feel confident in those choices, sidestep distractions, create and savour moments of joy, design your schedule with purpose and look back on your years without regrets.⏺️ Voics: https://www.voics.co/

Adrienne speaks with Cassie Mogilner Holmes; a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness, and bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.Cassie's research examines such questions as how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one's lifetime, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. Across these inquiries, her findings highlight the joy that stems from interpersonal connection and paying attention to the present moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our most precious resource isn't money—it's time. We're allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling rushed and like we never have enough. Since we can't add more hours to the day, how can we optimally spend the time we do have and feel confident in our decisions and more fulfilled in our lives? Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Professor Cassie Holmes will share how to immediately improve your life by changing how you perceive and invest your time. She provides empirically based insights that will help you experience moments of joy, use your time more optimally by designing your schedule with purpose—all so that you can look back on your days with satisfaction and your life without regret. Through her groundbreaking research, Cassie will teach you how small changes can have an enormous impact, helping you feel less overwhelmed, more present, and happier—things that money can't buy. It all starts by transforming just one hour into a happier hour. All of the show notes can be found at https://thegoodlifecoach.com/230 While on the show notes page, I'd love for you to join our community. You'll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You'll get a FREE copy of Michele's Book, Design a Life You Love. WHAT WE DISCUSS: When we focus on time we are more intentional in how we spend it and align it with our values. How our to do list can keep us busy but not focused on what is most important. How nearly 1/2 of Americans feel time poor.  And moms tend to feel more time poor than Dads. Strategies include: How to carve out happy times by making them no phone zones.  Put your phone out of sight. Try a digital detox for 6 consecutive hours.  The research shows that people feel so much better and are more productive. Reflect on the activities that bring the most joy. Once you recognize what does boost you, book it in your schedule.  We discuss time crafting, and much more!   RESOURCES MENTIONED Website: https://www.cassiemholmes.com/ Book: Happier Hour Connect with Michele on Instagram   MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness, and bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Cassie's research examines such questions as how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one's lifetime, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. Across these inquiries, her findings highlight the joy that stems from interpersonal connection and paying attention to the present moment. Cassie's research has been published in such top-tier academic journals as Psychological Science and the Journal of Consumer Research. Popular accounts of her work have been featured on NPR and such publications as The Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Scientific American and the Boston Globe. Her work on giving time was featured in New York Times Magazine's “32 Innovations that Will Change Your Tomorrow.” She was identified among the Best 40 Business Professors Under 40, and she received the Early Career Award for her distinguished scholarly contributions to her field from both the Association of Consumer Research and the Society of Consumer Psychology. Thank you for listening to the show. Be sure to share it with a friend! We love when women empower other women.

In today's conversation, I am joined by Dr. Cassie Holmes. Her fantastic book Happier Hour was named a "must-read" of 2022 by Forbes AND by the Next Big Idea Club. The Washington Post also profiled it as one of their best health books read and recommended by experts in 2022.  Cassie is a Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Her research examines how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of life, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. Across these inquiries, her findings highlight the joy that stems from interpersonal connection and paying attention to the present moment. Cassie's academic research on the role of time in cultivating well-being has been published in leading academic journals, including Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Journal of Consumer Research, and earned her the Early Career Award from both the Association of Consumer Research and the Society of Consumer Psychology. Cassie was identified by Poets & Quants as one of the best 40  business professors under 40, and popular accounts of her research have been featured by NPR, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Scientific American. Happier Hour is based on her wildly popular MBA course, “Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.” It is so good and I can't wait to have you hear about some of the insights from her -- it will change your life for the better I'm sure. Show Notes: [00:41] In today's conversation, I am joined by Dr. Cassie Holmes, who you met a few weeks ago when she was on the "panel" episode with Dr. Ayelet Fishbach sharing how to have the best and happiest 2023 possible. [02:45] Her new and widely acclaimed book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, is based on her wildly popular MBA course, “Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.” [04:18] Cassie shares about herself, her background, and what she does. She studies happiness and in particular the role of time. [05:22] When we feel happier, it makes us better in the work environment. [08:02] She wrote Happier Hour after the success of her course so she could share her learnings with even more people. Readers can apply the insights and experience the benefits just like her students. [10:10] You can have this huge impact from changing a couple of little things if you put a little focused effort forward.  [12:21] Our time is so important. Maximize the amount of time that feels worthwhile and minimize the time that feels like a waste.  [15:12] Cassie shares a day of her life early in her career when she experienced time poverty. She wanted more time so she could slow down and experience the time she was spending.  [17:15] Time poverty is that acute feeling of having too much to do and not enough time to do it.  [19:25] With too little discretionary time people are less happy. When we have too much discretionary spent in time that doesn't feel worthwhile, that undermines our sense of purpose and we feel less satisfied.    [21:45] It is not about how much time you have available. It is really about how you invest the time you have available. [24:20] Discretionary is what you want to do as opposed to nondiscretionary is something you have to do.  [26:35] On average people are most satisfied from social connection. The least happy activities tend to be commuting, work hours, and housework.  [28:25] After tracking your time for a week you have a fantastic data set where you can find which activities made you feel most satisfied.  [31:05] If it is not something you have to do and you are not enjoying it, that is an opportunity to reallocate that time to things that are worthwhile.  [33:49] Simply being outside had its own significantly positive effect.  [36:28] Experiencing awe can increase one's sense of time affluence.  [38:40] You don't have to have your discretionary time all in one block.  [41:14] It is not the amount of time you spend on a particular activity that determines happiness. It is really the quality and your engagement in the activity that determines it.  [42:27] Ordinary experiences can bring us as much joy as extraordinary experiences if only we are paying attention and savoring and cherishing them.   [44:33] It is not just the amount of time you spend that determines its impact, it is really how you mentally engage in that time.  [46:55] The most worthwhile investment is in cultivating relationships. The single biggest predictor of having a satisfied life was having strong supportive relationships with family or friends that feel like family and that requires investment. [49:01] She was living her dream life and she found herself charging ahead because she was in her head thinking about other things she had to do. It was pulling her out of the moment.   [51:24] The goal is to pause in those moments and smell the (literal or metaphorical) roses. If we are rushing because we are time poor through it all then we might as well not spend the time in the first place.  [53:13] Cassie explains why she doesn't make New Year's resolutions.  [55:41] Melina chooses a word and theme to help her through the whole year. [58:10] Why change something that is working. She wants everyday to be what she wants it to be.  [60:12] Melina's closing thoughts [61:29] The balance of a couple hours a day is enough for real lasting happiness.  Thanks for listening. Don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Android. If you like what you heard, please leave a review on iTunes and share what you liked about the show.  I hope you love everything recommended via The Brainy Business! Everything was independently reviewed and selected by me, Melina Palmer. So you know, as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. That means if you decide to shop from the links on this page (via Amazon or others), The Brainy Business may collect a share of sales or other compensation. Let's connect: Melina@TheBrainyBusiness.com The Brainy Business® on Facebook The Brainy Business on Twitter The Brainy Business on Instagram The Brainy Business on LinkedIn Melina on LinkedIn The Brainy Business on Youtube Join the BE Thoughtful Revolution – our free behavioral economics community, and keep the conversation going! Learn and Support The Brainy Business: Check out and get your copies of Melina's Books.  Get the Books Mentioned on (or related to) this Episode: Happier Hour, by Cassie Holmes Get It Done, by Ayelet Fishbach Indistractable, by Nir Eyal How to Change, by Katy Milkman The Fun Habit, Mike Rucker Connect with Cassie:  Cassie's Website Cassie on LinkedIn Top Recommended Next Episode: Using Motivation and Happiness Science to Make 2023 Your Best Year Ever (ep 249) Already Heard That One? Try These:  Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation with Ayelet Fishbach (ep 186) How To Change, an interview Dr. Katy Milkman (ep 151) Influence Is Your Superpower with Yale's Dr. Zoe Chance (ep 189) Framing (ep 16) Brainy Health Benefits of Nature, with Dr. Jay Maddock (ep 203) How to Become Indistractible, Interview With Author Nir Eyal (ep 78) Get Your D.O.S.E. of Brain Chemicals (ep 123) Focusing Illusion (ep 89) Confirmation Bias (ep 102) Other Important Links:  Brainy Bites - Melina's LinkedIn Newsletter  All The Books from the podcast in 2022 Some of Cassie's research on Time Affluence vs. Time Poverty and its impact on well being Giving Time, Gives You Time Does variety among activities increase happiness?

Most of us feel like there aren't enough hours in the day — but what can we do about it? In her book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, Cassie Holmes, PhD breaks it down for us. And on this episode of Live Happy Now, the award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness talks about what it means to feel “time poor” and why that has become so prevalent today. Then she'll explain how we can better structure our days and begin using our time instead of losing it. In this episode, you'll learn: How much time you need to feel “time affluent.” How tracking your time can help you identify where to find more of it. The philosophy of “time left” and how it can help you enjoy your hours more.

In this episode, Sherri shares some of her favorite recent reads and previews this year's A Quilting Life mystery block of the month sew-along. Billy then shares a couple more quilted Hanukkah small projects that viewers sent into the show. Sherri and Chelsi then discuss goals and tasks that brand-new quilters could set for themselves to accomplish in 2023 if they have chosen to start quilting for the first time. They discuss how a block-of-the-month sew-along can be a great way for someone to first start learning to quilt, important fundamental skills to learn in year one, the importance of sewing machine maintenance, and more!     Use code, AQUILTINGLIFE to get 40% off all purchases sitewide at www.cozyearth.comFor complete show notes, pictures, and links to all of today's featured quilts and fabrics, visit the A Quilting Life Blog: https://www.aquiltinglife.com/?p=26763Cozy Earth: https://cozyearth.com/Cozy Earth 40% Off Sitewide with the code: AQUILTINGLIFEFriendly Blooms (Quilt on the Wall): https://tidd.ly/3PDxtOaAfterglow (Quilt on the Table): https://tidd.ly/3vwrfG3Be Mine (Quilt on the Table): https://tidd.ly/3FtAwnwHappier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most: https://amzn.to/3GNjjs5Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much: https://amzn.to/3GLDxm0The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business: https://amzn.to/3ZhGamONOTE: Some of the links provided here are affiliate links.Visit the A Quilting Life YouTube channel for more great video content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSR-jDR956ATQe30JHX87wEnjoy what you heard? Be sure to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and your review could be read on the show

Hello, and welcome to the Voice of Retail podcast! My name is Michael LeBlanc, and I am your host. I believe in the power of storytelling to bring the retail industry to life. Each week, I'll bring insights, perspectives, and experiences from some of the retail industry's most innovative and influential voices.  The Voice of Retail is brought to you in conjunction with Retail Council of Canada. Today, we have a special treat in store for you as we sit down with Cassie Holmes, a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, a social psychologist, and author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.  So please sit back, relax, and get ready to be inspired, as Cassie provides us with the antidote to overscheduling and feeling like your days aren't your own!https://www.cassiemholmes.com/About CassieCassie Holmes is a Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness and author of the upcoming book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course, Life Design for Happiness. Cassie's research on the role of time in cultivating life satisfaction has been published in leading academic journals and earned her multiple Early Career Awards. Cassie was identified by Poets & Quants as one of the best 40 business professors under 40, and popular accounts of her research have been featured on NPR and in such publications as The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Scientific American. Previously, Cassie was a tenured faculty member and award-winning teacher at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and a B.A. from Columbia. About MichaelMichael is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada and the Bank of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice. He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience with Levi's, Black & Decker, Hudson's Bay, Today's Shopping Choice and Pandora Jewellery.   Michael has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career. He has delivered keynotes, hosted fire-side discussions with C-level executives and participated worldwide in thought leadership panels. ReThink Retail has added Michael to their prestigious Top 100 Global Retail Influencers list for 2022 for the second year in a row. The London-based Retail Technology Innovation Hub recently added Michael to their Top 100 Retail Technology Influencers List for 2022.Michael is also the president of Maven Media, producing a network of leading trade podcasts, including Canada's top retail industry podcast, The Voice of Retail. He produces and co-hosts Remarkable Retail with best-selling author Steve Dennis, now ranked one of the top retail podcasts in the world. In 2020 Michael launched The Food Professor with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois exploring the critical issues in food, grocery and food service. The Food Professor podcast is one of Apple Podcasts' top 20 business management podcasts in Canada, and currently the number one Canadian produced and hosted podcast in the category.Based in New York, Conversations with CommerceNext is a podcast focusing on retail eCommerce, digital marketing and retail careers with episodes talking with C-level executives operating in the U.S. and internationally. Based in San Francisco, Global eCommerce Leaders podcast explores global cross-border issues and opportunities for eCommerce brands and retailers. Last but not least, Michael is the producer and host of the "Last Request Barbeque" channel on YouTube, where he cooks meals to die for - and collaborates with top brands as a food and product influencer across North America.

What does it mean to be time-poor? We've all heard the old phrase, "time is money," usually in the context of work and productivity. But, time isn't just about money, it's about happiness, health, and life. How we use it and feel like we have enough of it, is everything. Time is precious and, it is also our one nonrenewable resource. When a dollar is spent, you can earn another. When a day is gone, it's gone for life.So, how can we move forward, making sure that we live more intentionally and spend our time wisely so we won't have regrets in the end? My guest today, Cassie Holmes, has done incredible research on making the most of the world's most precious resource, time, and I'm excited to tackle these big questions and ideas in this important and timely conversation with her today. Her new book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, gives readers the blueprint to reframing their time and overcoming time poverty. And in our chat today, you'll hear us dive deeper into this notion of having too much to do and too little time, how to distinguish between what matters and what doesn't when it comes to our time, and what to consider and do if you want to lead a more intentional, happier life — which I'm sure that's all of us.You can find Cassie at: Website | LinkedInIf you LOVED this episode: you'll also love the conversations we had with Tim Ferriss about being present and intentional in life. Check out our offerings & partners: My New Book SparkedMy New Podcast SPARKED: We're looking for special guest “wisdom-seekers” to share the moment you're in, then pose questions to Jonathan and the Sparked Braintrust to be answered, “on air.” To submit your “moment & question” for consideration to be on the show go to sparketype.com/submit. Visit Our Sponsor Page For Great Resources & Discount CodesPlanta: Individual care schedule and reminders for your plants, recommendations, step-by-step guides, identification, light meter and more. Keep your plants alive with Planta! Download the Planta App today, use code goodlife20 and get 20% OFF.You Need a Budget: Your money doesn't have to be messy. Get a handle on your personal finances by budgeting with YNAB—a proven method and budgeting app that gives you real results. Try You Need a Budget free for 34-days (no credit card required) at YNAB.com/GOODLIFE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest host Allison Pataki interviews award-winning UCLA professor Cassie Holmes about her enlightening and joyful new guide Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Cassie discusses her groundbreaking research on time and explains the undeniable benefits of designing purposeful schedules and maximizing joyful and meaningful activities. She also teaches us how to turn tedious activities into worthwhile ones (like bundling errands with an audiobook!) and how to be more present in the happy moments.Purchase on Amazon or Bookshop.Amazon: https://bit.ly/3IfrlLiBookshop: https://bit.ly/3Q3Ku4RSubscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We go to the dentist, get our eyes checked, and get our cars inspected. These regularly scheduled health and safety audits let us know how we're doing. But we rarely audit how we spend our time. Sure, most of us have a calendar. Yet few of us study how these calendar events impact our happiness. We rarely track the connection between what we spend our time doing and how well we're flourishing. As a result, we can find ourselves feeling unhappy, frustrated, and what scientists call “time poor.” Researchers like Cassie Holmes want to change that. They've learned there's a strong connection between how we spend our time and how happy we feel. In her book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, she shares ways we can optimize our calendars for happiness, including ways to avoid distraction, extend joy, create a meaningful schedule, and avoid regret. Holmes' tips on time tracking and time auditing are simple and powerful. As the year draws to a close, this may be just the book you're looking for as we head into a new year. Episode Links Having Too Little or Too Much Time is Linked to Lower Subjective Well-being Our Flawed Pursuit of Happiness – and How to Get It Right A Valuable Lesson for a Happier Life (video) Trust by Hernan Diaz The Team Learn more about host, Gayle Allen, and producer, Rob Mancabelli, here. Support the Podcast If you like the show, please rate and review it on iTunes or wherever you subscribe, and tell a friend or family member about the show. Subscribe Click here and then scroll down to see a sample of sites where you can subscribe.

This week I was excited to welcome Dr. Cassie Holmes to the show to discuss her new book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Cassie is a professor of marketing and behavioral decision making at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and is a renowned expert in the field of time and its correlation to happiness.  In this conversation Cassie guides listeners through a variety of insights and exercises she's shared with MBA students in her wildly popular UCLA course. Dr. Holmes unpacks concepts such as time poverty, what it is, why it's damaging, how it's subjective, and ways you can quickly increase your time affluence. We discuss how the use of time tracking can easily and quickly guide those suffering from time poverty to a more fruitful, fulfilling and happier pace of life. In addition to sharing techniques and research that she has discovered while writing the book, Cassie also reveals some of the psychology and behavioral science that can lead to the sometimes overwhelming feelings of time poverty and the power of embracing quality time over mundane time-costs such as excess social media, and pseudo-work.  Follow Cassie's Work: https://www.cassiemholmes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Design Your Retirement – Take charge of your future with our small group coaching program starting in January. Limited to 10 participants. | Early Bird Pricing ends in December. |Learn more here __________________________   "...the solution to happiness or satisfaction is not actually being time rich, it's about making the time that you have rich." - Cassie Holmes, PhD   The biggest investment decisions you're making aren't about your 401(k) or IRA. They're about your time. Cassie Holmes, PhD, shares her research on the intersection of time and happiness. Listen in for research-based exercises and practical tips that can help you wisely craft your time, increase your satisfaction and retire happy. Cassie Holmes joins us from Los Angeles. ___________________________ Bio Cassie Mogilner Holmes is a Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness. Her research examines such questions as how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one's lifetime, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. Across these inquiries, her findings highlight the joy that stems from interpersonal connection and paying attention to the present moment. Cassie's academic research on the role of time in cultivating well-being has been published in leading academic journals, including Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Journal of Consumer Research, and earned her the Early Career Award from both the Association of Consumer Research and the Society of Consumer Psychology. Cassie was identified by Poets & Quants as one of the best 40 business professors under 40, and popular accounts of her research have been featured on NPR and in such publications as The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Scientific American. Professor Cassie Holmes is the author of the book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course, “Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.” Holmes is a faculty affiliate with The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the research, education, and practice of kindness. Previously, Holmes was a tenured faculty member and award-winning teacher at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and a B.A. from Columbia. ___________________________ For More on Cassie Holmes, PhD Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most Time Crafting - Time Tracker Worksheet Website ___________________________ Podcast Episodes You May Like Retire Happy – Dr. Catherine Sanderson The Power of Fun – Catherine Price Everyday Vitality – Dr. Samantha Boardman Well-Being & Longevity – Dr. Jennifer Boylan _____________________________ Wise Quotes On What Influences Happiness "So what we think about and what we intentionally do in our day-to-day has a significant influence on our happiness, more so than those circumstances that we think are the secrets to happiness. And so in my work, because I look at the role of time, I very much frame this as how do we think about and choose to invest the time that we have? How does that influence the joy that we experience in our days and the satisfaction we feel about our lives?" On Time Tracking "...really what I'm sharing is the research to help people to maximize the amount of time that they experience is worthwhile, minimize the time that is wasted or that people are moving through almost like letting it be wasted. And there's two components of that. One is spending time, investing time on activities that are worthwhile.

Welcome to an episode with Cassie Holmes, a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and an award-winning teacher and researcher of time and happiness. In society today, we generally equate productivity with the number of activities we do, regardless of the value it brings us and how it contributes to our well-being and happiness. We often feel “time-poor” for having too much to do and not having enough time to do it. As a result, we feel less happy and less fulfilled. On the contrary, people with too much free time feel unproductive and lack a sense of purpose. So how should we think about time and happiness? In this episode, Cassie discusses how we can recreate our approach to time and transform every moment into a happier hour. She shares how we can spend time optimally, create moments of gratitude and fulfillment, and live life with no regrets. Cassie earned her PhD at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and her BA at Columbia as a psychology major. Cassie's research has been widely published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets as NPR, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Happier Hour is her first book. Get Cassie's book here: Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Cassie Holmes Enjoying our podcast? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. In this episode, she explains why having more free time doesn't necessarily make our lives more meaningful, and she shares strategies for reframing the hours that we do have so that they are more enjoyable, fulfilling, and productive. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How do we invest the hours of our days so that we feel truly, deeply satisfied? Award-winning teacher and research and now bestselling author, Dr. Cassie Holmes unpacks exactly that today on THRIVE. As a top-rated professors at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and the author of Forbes must-read of 2022, Happier Hour, Cassie's work on the intersection of time and happiness has been widely published AND practiced, helping thousands and thousands of people ultimately feel BETTER about and happier with whatever time they've got. Today on THRIVE, she breaks down the difference being “time poor” versus “time affluent,” shares how to make those essential time-sucking “chore” tasks less of a happiness kill, and explains why having MORE time isn't always the answer to more happiness. Cassie also gives us a few helpful exercises from her book, like a time tracking exercise to take inventory of your current time management, a Times Left exercise to better appreciate specific moments with loved ones, a Five Senses exercise to tune into the present moment, and a Eulogy exercise to assess the legacy you want to be living and leaving NOW.   CONNECT WITH CASSIE Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most Website   SHOP THE THRIVING COLLECTION   GET YOUR COPY OF CAFFEINATE YOUR SOUL: 52 MONDAY MANTRAS HERE: Amazon Barnes and Noble Target Walmart   FOLLOW ALONG: THRIVE Podcast Instagram Instagram Facebook Coming Up Roses

Hello everyone! Today's podcast is sponsored by Vision Made Vision Board Kit. In this episode, on the day of National Savings Day and Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we discuss how to save in our lives with Aunjane, a financial advisor who will shortly receive her license. We also discuss how to move past the pain caused by domestic abuse and how to lead a healthy life no matter what trauma you have experienced with our second guest Latina. Aunjane, a financial advisor who will have her license by this december, will assist you with your finances. She has been a licensed insurance agent, and financial consultant for families. She's been a real estate and property agent since she was a kid . She began managing smaller properties when she was only 17 years old. Our second guest is Latina from Steubenville, Ohio. She recounts her horrific childhood experiences, her tragic early years, and how her tragedy started in her own home. She urges women to accept themselves, find themselves, and speak out against domestic violence. Here are some key highlights to know more about this episode of Envision me Podcast: Tips on saving and advice to people wondering where all their money really going How did Aunjane get into impacting people financially Piece of advice to the people who want to be financially stable Advice to the people in the corporate world How Latina's childhood trauma affecting her adulting Why speaking and talking about your trauma is a healing process How God and prayers help to overcome traumas and unhealthy surroundings. Why it is important to have alone time for self reflection Self development books like ‘You are the Placebo' by Dr.Joe Dispenza, ‘You owe you' by Eric Thomas and ‘Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters' by Cassie Mogilner Holmes Key Takeaway If you are contemplating that fear, like what's gonna happen what if I fail, I'm gonna tell you right now you're gonna bump your head, okay it's gonna happen but the goal is to find your thing that you love and how you can make money doing it - Aunjane Domestic violence is broader than just intimate partner, it could be family member and it could be verbal - Latina It's not selfish to sit back and take time, that you need to reflect and find out what it is that God is trying to tell you to do to have that inner peace. - Latina GUEST BIO Aunjane Johnson is an entrepreneur and the CEO of the multilevel financial consultancy firm Raanckee & Associates LLC. She's a Family Financial Wellness Consultant, Starter Investing Educator for Newbies and Capital & Grant Connector for Investors To connect with Aunjane visit her at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aunjanej Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raanckee Tikotok: https://www.tiktok.com/@raanckee Connect with me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071270763167 Website: www.visionmadenetwork.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/visionmade MAKE SURE YOUR SHARE, RATE THE EPISODE 5 STARS & LEAVE A REVIEW! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whatsnextforwomen/support

Professor Cassie Holmes visits Google to discuss her book "Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most." Cassie argues that our most precious resource isn't money. It's time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling “time poor” —like we just never have enough. Since we can't add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives as being richer? Is it possible to spend our days so they aren't just full, but are fulfilling? Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Cassie demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. “Happier Hour” teaches you how small changes can have an enormous impact, helping you feel less overwhelmed, more present, and more satisfied with your life overall. It all starts by transforming just one hour into a happier hour. Visit http://g.co/TalksAtGoogle/HappierHour to watch the video.

Download this free 12-page PDF to get 12 key ideas to make you a better leader today.   Cassie Mogilner Holmes is a Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness. Her research examines such questions as how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one's lifetime, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. Across these inquiries, her findings highlight the joy that stems from interpersonal connection and paying attention to the present moment. Cassie's academic research on the role of time in cultivating well-being has been published in leading academic journals, including Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Journal of Consumer Research, and earned her the Early Career Award from both the Association of Consumer Research and the Society of Consumer Psychology. Cassie was identified by Poets & Quants as one of the best 40 business professors under 40, and popular accounts of her research have been featured on NPR and in such publications as The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Scientific American.  Professor Cassie Holmes is the author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course, “Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.” Holmes is a faculty affiliate with The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the research, education, and practice of kindness. Previously, Holmes was a tenured faculty member and award-winning teacher at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and a B.A. from Columbia.

We all have the same 24 hours in the day, but leaders know how to use their time more effectively and generally find more happiness along the way.   Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, where she is an award-winning teacher and researcher. Holmes's work on the intersection of time and happiness has been widely published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets as NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and more. Happier Hour is her first book.   A few years ago Cassie found herself so exhausted and overwhelmed that she wondered if she would ever catch up with the pressures of life. She found herself wishing for more hours in her day, but quickly realized that increased discretionary time in her day does not always result in increased happiness.   It's not about becoming time rich, it's about making your time spent more rich. We can feel fulfilled and satisfied at the end of each day by investing our time more carefully. The perfect balance is found somewhere between having too much and too little to do. Being time-poor can have just as detrimental an effect on our happiness as not having enough to fill our days up. There was a time when Cassie thought that finding two hours of discretionary time in her day was a dream she would never be able to achieve. While scrolling on TikTok for two hours will never bring satisfaction, that same amount of time spent with children or on a passion project can be the most important hours that we spend in the day.   Cassie shares the research, examples, and cautionary tales that will push you to think about how you are living, and how you want to be remembered. Her message will inspire you to spend your hours well, because they add up to your days, your years, and ultimately, your life.   Interview Links: Cassie Holmes Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most   Resources: 20,000 Scaleups Scaling Up Summits (Select Bill Gallagher as your coach during registration for a discount.) Bill on YouTube   Scaling Up is the best-selling book by Verne Harnish and our team for Scaling Up Coaches (formerly Gazelles). We share how the fastest-growing companies succeed where so many others fail.   Bill Gallagher, Scaling Coach and host of the show, is an international business coach who works with C-Suite leaders to achieve breakthrough growth.   We help leadership teams with the biggest decisions around People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash so that they can Scale Up successfully and beat the odds of business growth. Scaling Up is based on Verne's original best-selling business book, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits.   Did you enjoy today's episode? If so, then please leave a review! Help other business leaders discover the Scaling Up Business Podcast so they, too, can benefit from the ideas shared in these podcasts.

If you are an iPhone user, you may have noticed that some of your texts show up in blue and some show up in green This episode begins with the explanation for why that happens and what it means. https://www.rd.com/article/why-are-my-texts-green/ Do you know what time poverty is? It's that sense you get of having too much to do and never enough time to get it done. While a lot of us live in time poverty, others live in time affluence. So how do they do it? Cassie Holmes will tell you. Cassie is professor of marketing and behavioral decision making at UCLA Anderson School of Management and author of the book Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most (https://amzn.to/3QOReSV) . Listen as she reveals how to get all the important things done and still have time for fun and pleasure. Is salt really all that bad for you? Do vegetarians really live longer? Are sugar substitutes better than plain old sugar? These are just some of the questions I tackle with Tim Spector. He is a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and the author of four books, including his latest, Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We've Been Told About Food Is Wrong (https://amzn.to/3xQ77lB).Tim is on the advisory board of Zoe.com, a company that does research and offers personal nutrition. If you are interested go to www.joinzoe.com for more information. Do you wear the same shoes every day? Listen as I explain why the experts say you might want to rethink that. Your feet will appreciate it. https://blog.schulershoes.com/can-i-wear-the-same-shoes-every-day/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! Go to https://CozyEarth.com/SOMETHING to SAVE 35% now!  All backed by a 100-Night Sleep Guarantee. Factor makes it easy to eat clean 24/7, with fresh, delicious, prepared meals! Head to https://go.factor75.com/something130 & use promo code Something130 to get $120 off! Visit https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING  to start hiring now! Go to https://Shopify.com/sysk for a FREE fourteen-day trial and get full access to Shopify's entire suite of features and start selling today!! Redeem your rewards for cash in any amount, at any time, with Discover Card! Learn more at https://Discover.com/RedeemRewards https://www.geico.com Bundle your policies and save! It's Geico easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As investors, we should train and remind ourselves to focus on the value of companies as opposed to the value of their stocks. Ultimately, doing so can help to relieve market volatility and leave us sleeping better at night. Listen as Wes Moss discusses how the Federal Reserve currently impacts the market along with how investors should examine the market for their mental well-being. Wes also analyzes details from a happiness study performed by the author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. To conclude the episode, Wes unveils ways to decrease anxiety around investing and why investing should start and end with a plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can we create happier memories for ourselves with the power of storytelling? How do we make sure to savor moments of joy and not take them for granted? How many things can we get done within your limited hours in a day, and how many more things could we get done if we learn the happiest way to manage our time? We continue our conversation with Dr. Cassie Holmes, award-winning Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, researcher of time and happiness, and author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” A quintessentially American phrase from the Declaration of Independence. That “pursuit of happiness” takes many forms, but it turns out that some approaches are more likely to be successful, according to science. In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we look at a way to frame how you spend your time and money that may help you lead a happier life.Joshua Fields Millburn was hungry for success. Despite a difficult childhood, he was determined to make it big. He worked long hours, took little time off, and rapidly climbed the corporate ladder in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio. By his mid-twenties, he had worked his way to a director position at a telecommunications company and was leading a very prosperous lifestyle. But his workaholism had taken a toll. By 28, his marriage had failed, his mother had died, and Joshua was at a crossroads.You'll hear how he was forced to take stock of what was most important—and how he shifted his priorities in a way that changed his life for the better.Joshua Fields Millburn in one half of the simple living duo the Minimalists.Next, Katy speaks with Cassie Mogilner Holmes about her research on time and happiness and how prioritizing quality time over money and material wealth can have lasting positive effects. She's the author of the new book Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.Cassie Mogilner Holmes is a professor of marketing and behavioral decision making at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.Choiceology is an original podcast from Charles Schwab. For more on the series, visit schwab.com/podcast.If you enjoy the show, please leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating or review on Apple Podcasts. Important DisclosuresAll expressions of opinion are subject to change without notice in reaction to shifting market conditions.The comments, views, and opinions expressed in the presentation are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of Charles Schwab. Data contained herein from third-party providers is obtained from what are considered reliable sources. However, its accuracy, completeness or reliability cannot be guaranteed.The policy analysis provided by the Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., does not constitute and should not be interpreted as an endorsement of any political party.Investing involves risk, including loss of principal.The book How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (CS&Co.). Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (CS&Co.) has not reviewed the book and makes no representations about its content.(0922-2WNE)

Dr. Cassie Holmes, an expert on time and happiness, joins Joe to discuss her recently published book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.  She provides useful advice for those who find themselves feeling like they spend all their time working and don't have any time or energy left for the things that bring them happiness. 

On this episode of the pod, Brian sits down with UCLA Professor and expert of all things related to time and happiness, Cassie Holmes. Cassie's academic research on the role of time in cultivating well-being has been published in leading academic journals, including Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Journal of Consumer Research. Most recently, Cassie published her new book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course, “Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.” Her book has already been featured in reputable news outlets across the country (see below). Give this pod a listen then make sure to order her book so you can learn how to add more happiness into your hours!     Happier Hour on Amazon Wall Street Journal ReviewCBS Mornings FeatureFortune ExcerptLinkedIn

Professor Cassie Mogilner Holmes is a professor of marketing and behavioral decision making at UCLA Anderson School of Management and author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters. Today she joins the pod to share ways that we can all become more time rich and lead happier, more fulfilling lives. She shares: What it means to be time rich and how we can make our time more meaningful. 3 specific habits you can start today to increase happiness. Why it's important to take inventory of you spend your time. How much money you need to be happy. Why you have more time than you think you do (and how to discover where and when you have that time). Surface relationships vs deep connections and how they impact our happiness.  Why the arts are so important when it comes to happiness. Gender inequality when it comes to free time. Why learning to say no and protecting your time is paramount to happiness. Why we need to treat our time like diamonds.

With a thousand demands on our time every day, it's hard to find the space for even everything you absolutely have to do, much less the nice-to-haves. Time tracking exercises, productivity hacks and streamlining are all great, but they can feel like they don't always leave time for the good stuff that makes you happy -- just time to fulfill more obligations. So how do you find time for things that make you happy, like heading outside? And what role does going into nature play in happiness? In this episode Dr. Cassie Holmes, a popular UCLA professor, happiness researcher and author of the new book Happier Hour shares with her best tips and insights on how to manipulate your time to make space -- real space -- for the things that make you happy. Some of the good stuff: [2:57] Is this just an Amy intervention? [4:02] Why we can blame Amy's mom [5:34] Dr. Cassie Holme's favorite outdoor space [7:02] Why nature and joy is interesting [10:08] All about time tracking and why what she suggests is different from normal methods [13:00] The happiness difference between indoor and outdoor things [18:26] What makes outside time happy [25:03] How to actually make time happen for you [29:00] What to do if you hate time tracking [35:27] What to do with the info you tracked (or not) [39:00] What to do if you get on track with time management but then fall off the wagon [47:00] What this is really about -- a final nutshell takeaway Connect with this episode: Learn about Dr. Cassie Holmes Read “Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time and Focus on What Matters Most” Get Dr. Holme's time tracking and time crafting sheets. Join the Humans Outside Challenge Follow Humans Outside on Instagram Follow Humans Outside on Facebook

What makes us happy, and what will make us happier? How can the story we tell ourselves about time affect our happiness level? In a world that easily makes us feel "time poor", how do we make the most of our limited time? This week, we chat with Dr. Cassie Holmes, award-winning Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, researcher of time and happiness, and author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 275, an episode with Cassie Holmes, a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and an award-winning teacher and researcher of time and happiness.   In society today, we generally equate productivity with the number of activities we do, regardless of the value it brings us and how it contributes to our well-being and happiness. We often feel “time-poor” for having too much to do and not having enough time to do it. As a result, we feel less happy and less fulfilled. On the contrary, people with too much free time feel unproductive and lack a sense of purpose. So how should we think about time and happiness?   In this episode, Cassie discusses how we can recreate our approach to time and transform every moment into a happier hour. She shares how we can spend time optimally, create moments of gratitude and fulfillment, and live life with no regrets.   Cassie earned her PhD at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and her BA at Columbia as a psychology major. Cassie's research has been widely published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets as NPR, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Happier Hour is her first book.   Get Cassie's book here: Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Cassie Holmes   Enjoying our podcast? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

Have you ever wondered how to make your life rich? In my interview with Dr. Cassie Holmes, we discuss step-by-step how to wisely invest your most treasured resource—time and make the most of it. Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. She is the world's leading authority on time and happiness.  In her ground-breaking new book, HAPPIER HOUR: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters, a Forbes 2022 “Must Read,”—Cassie shares her cutting-edge research guiding readers on how to immediately enrich their lives by better investing the time they have, no matter how “time poor” they feel. -► Purchase Happier Hour: https://amzn.to/3BdkONl  (Amazon link) -► Get the full show notes: https://passionstruck.com/cassie-holmes-happier-hour-time-management/  --► Prefer to watch this interview: https://youtu.be/8CphcB87dxY  --► Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel Here: https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnRMiles --► Subscribe to the Passion Struck Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/passion-struck-with-john-r-miles/id1553279283  Thank you, Dry Farm Wines, For Your Support Dry Farm Wines Have No Chemical Additives for Aroma, Color, Flavor, or Texture Enhancement. Dry Farm Wines - The Only Natural Wine Club That Goes Above and Beyond Industry Standards. For Passion Struck listeners: Dry Farm Wines offers an extra bottle in your first box for a penny (because it's alcohol, it can't be free). See all the details and collect your wine at https://www.dryfarmwines.com/passionstruck/. In this episode, Dr. Cassie Holmes and I Discuss: The concept of time poverty. What it is and why it is damaging. Why if you have less than two hours or more than five hours of free time, you'll likely feel unsatisfied in your life. Why having more time doesn't make you happier Three tools to help you become more time affluent Why you will enjoy your time more if you feel your hours are numbered. The importance of focusing on time rather than money Why connecting socially, spending time outside, and being mindful about even simple activities have the greatest impact on your happiness. How Unhappy activities can be made less painful by reframing them. The importance of being intentional about where and how you use time. Where to Find Dr. Cassie Holmes * Website: https://www.cassiemholmes.com/  * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassiemholmes/  -- John R. Miles is the CEO, and Founder of PASSION STRUCK®, the first of its kind company, focused on impacting real change by teaching people how to live Intentionally. He is on a mission to help people live a no-regrets life that exalts their victories and lets them know they matter in the world. For over two decades, he built his own career applying his research of passion struck leadership, first becoming a Fortune 50 CIO and then a multi-industry CEO. He is the executive producer and host of the top-ranked Passion Struck Podcast, selected as one of the Top 50 most inspirational podcasts in 2022. Learn more about John: https://johnrmiles.com/  ===== FOLLOW JOHN ON THE SOCIALS ===== * Twitter: https://twitter.com/Milesjohnr * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnrmiles.c0m * Medium: https://medium.com/@JohnRMiles​ * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/john_r_miles * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milesjohn/ * Blog: https://johnrmiles.com/blog/ * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/passion_struck_podcast * Gear: https://www.zazzle.com/store/passion_sruck_podcast  

We will learn: The relationship between the amount of time people have in their daily lives and their overall happiness. Strategies to make activities that feel like a waste a little more satisfying. How to craft your time with variation. If you want to build the future of your dreams, you have to prioritize your future self. But that doesn't need to take away from the bliss you find in the present. The problem is, sometimes it seems we have our butts in high gear the whole time and there's still just not enough time in a day. So where's the balance? When is it the best decision to chill vs pump yourself up? How do I make the most of my time? And even more importantly, when I do figure out how to make the most of my time, how do I actually get myself to stick to it? So that's what we're talking about today.  Our guest is Cassie Holmes. She is a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, where she is an award-winning teacher and researcher. Holmes's work on the intersection of time and happiness has been published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets like NPR, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and more. She's also the author of “Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most”. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/246 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we chat with Dr. Cassie Holmes, an award-winning teacher, and expert on time and happiness. Dr. Holmes is a Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and the author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.  Happier Hour is a book that provides readers with a practical guide on how to think about and spend time living a more joyful and fulfilling life. Dr. Holmes uses this publication to address our society's problem of being overly distracted, and to expose just how limited time can be…  Offer: This Podcast is Sponsored by Lost Empire Herbs. Right now, Lost Empire Herb's bestselling Pine Pollen is now available for just one penny, plus shipping and handling. Go to www.GeniusPollen.com to find out more and grab yourself a bag today. No hidden charges, no trial offer, no shenanigans. Just a low cost way to try Lost Empire Herbs' top product for next to nothing. If you're looking for 100% natural hormonal support for men and women YOU'VE GOT TO TRY THIS.. Click play to hear Dr. Holmes discuss: What motivated her to explore happiness and the role of time. What “time poverty” is, and the disadvantages of being “time poor”. How you can create and savor moments of joy. How technology affects our emotions, engagement, and overall attention. Are you using your time in a way that promotes happiness in your own life? Life passes by faster than we realize, and Dr. Holmes offers proactive advice on how you can take advantage of the moment.  To find out more about Dr. Holmes, visit www.cassiemholmes.com now!  Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

Kelly talks with UCLA professor Cassie Holmes about her new book,  “Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.” “How we spend our time defines who we are, the memories we cherish, and how we will be remembered by those we leave behind.”  “My email inbox is my major […]

Text Hawk to 66866 to become part of Mindful Monday. Receive a carefully curated email from me each Monday morning to help you start your week off right! Full show notes at www.LearningLeader.com Twitter/IG: @RyanHawk12    https://twitter.com/RyanHawk12 Cassie Holmes is a Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness. Cassie is the author of the book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course, “Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.” Notes: What do the happiest people do? They have strong, supportive relationships They feel a sense of belonging They feel safe and healthy "We have control over what we do and how we spend our time." Turn routines into rituals - Cassie does this for her Thursday morning coffee dates with her daughter. I do the same going to the pool with my daughter. Time poverty is prevalent for 50% of Americans. How to handle back to back to back meetings? It's unsustainable. Your team needs you to be full. Over time, you will not perform at an optimal level if you don't give yourself time to think, reflect, analyze the situation, and make a decision. Do a time tracking exercise and analyze what is the best use of your time. Block time on your calendar each day for yourself. And hold to it. Learning from admired elders – Ask, ‘what is your greatest source of pride?' ‘what is your greatest regret?' - Invest the time to learn from someone who is older than you that you admire. How to be happier? Unhappy activities can be made less painful by reframing them (bundling them with something fun or remembering its purpose–why you're doing it) Reflect back on your last two weeks. When did you feel the most joy? A weekly coffee date with your daughter? Swimming together? Whatever it is… How can you intentionally create more moments of joy for yourself? If you have less than two hours of free time (leading to feelings of stress) or more than five hours of free time (undermining your sense of purpose), you'll likely feel unsatisfied in your life. In between is the sweet spot— and most of us can achieve this with a few simple exercises provided in this podcast.  Why we tend to put off current enjoyment for the sake of tasks we “should” do and why we should do this less. Dr. Holmes says we need to identify and commit to activities that make us happy so we don't later feel regret from missing out on life's good stuff. Focusing on time increases happiness because it motivates you to spend your time more deliberately. Recognizing that your remaining time is limited and thus precious helps you savor life's everyday moments of joy. Tracking Time Exercise: based on how you're currently spending and actually experiencing your hours, identify which times are truly the most and least happy. Connecting socially, spending time outside, and being mindful during the hours you spend have the greatest impact on the happiness experienced in your day. The Five Whys Exercise: uncover your purpose. Eulogy Exercise: learn what really matters to you by how you hope to be remembered. Gallup Poll: Do you have a best friend at work? Counting times left exercise: How many times have you done it in the past month? How many more do you have left? How many meals will you share with your parents? Realize that it's probably not that many. That realization will help you cherish the time.

Today I'm speaking with Cassie Holmes, professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. We talk about her new book "Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most" How can we use our time more wisely and accomplish the tasks we care about most? What's the difference between pickleball and tennis? Why is it easier to brainstorm in the shower or while driving across the country? Is multitasking a myth? Check out Cassie's book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Happier-Hour/Cassie-Holmes/9781982148805

Today I'm speaking with Cassie Holmes, professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. We talk about her new book "Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most" How can we use our time more wisely and accomplish the tasks we care about most? What's the difference between pickleball and tennis? Why is it easier to brainstorm in the shower or while driving across the country? Is multitasking a myth? Check out Cassie's book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Happier-Hour/Cassie-Holmes/9781982148805

UCLA's Anderson School of Management professor Cassie Holmes is the world's leading authority on time and happiness. In her ground-breaking new book, HAPPIER HOUR: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most —a Forbes 2022 “Must Read”—she shares her cutting-edge research guiding readers how to immediately enrich their lives by better investing the time they have, no matter how “time poor” they feel.

Listener Niki Walker has a question... in our busy, career-driven, money-oriented live, are we forgetting to make time for more important things?  In our first episode fielding questions from fans of The Happiness Lab, Dr Laurie Santos looks at the world of work and how we can prioritize purpose, fun and human interaction to make our daily lives better.    Laurie is joined by Professor Cassie Holmes (author of "Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time and Focus on What Matters Most).  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Distractions seem ubiquitous today, but they've always been a part of human life. Here's how to resist them. Distractions impede us from making progress toward the life we want for ourselves. To visualize this, imagine a line that represents the value of everything you do throughout your day. To the right, the actions are positive; to the left, they are negative. The positive actions represent traction: they draw or pull us toward what we want in life. The word “traction,” in fact, comes from the Latin trahere, meaning to draw or pull. You can read the NirAndFar blog post on: How the Ancient Greeks Beat Distraction https://www.nirandfar.com/tantalizing-distractions/ Nir & Far, a podcast about business, behaviour and the brain by Nir Eyal. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe on iTunes and leave an iTunes review. It will greatly help new listeners discover the show. Please visit my website Nir and Far for other info about my writing, books and teaching: http://www.nirandfar.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nirandfar/support

How different would your life be if you were “indistractable”?Nir Eyal wrote the book on how tech companies get people Hooked. After years of teaching at Stanford, Eyal now reveals the Achilles' heel of distraction in his new book, Indistractable. In Indistractable, Eyal shatters the conventional narrative that the problem is our gadgets. Rather, Eyal shows why distraction is a symptom of much deeper dysfunction. This episode is highly actionable and Nir provides amazing examples of how you can implement his methods into your life. We dive deep into how we can escape distraction, beat the urge to scroll, refresh and reply, and do more of the things we want to do.  In Episode 89, you will learn:00:00 Intro03:31 Distraction vs Traction11:59 How to get to the root of distraction15:59 Master your internal triggers 20:22 Can you really run out of willpower?26:23 Nir's fascination with behavior 32:54 How to balance your time with time-boxing54:04 Nir's personal system of using a to-do list55:24 The first step to becoming indistractable 58:12 Are you a Reactor or a Reflector1:03:34 What is next for Nir1:04:54 How to get in touch with NirResources/Links:Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your LifeHooked: How to Build Habit-Forming ProductsThe Most Important Skill of the Future is Being ‘Indistractable'Learn How To Avoid Distraction In A World That Is Full Of ItBe a Schedule Builder, Not a To-Do List MakerTimeboxing: The Most Powerful Time Management Technique You're Probably Not UsingFree Schedule Maker***If you enjoy the show please subscribe and leave a short 17-second review on Apple Podcasts here. It means a lot to me and really supports the podcast.  Text me directly at: 619-825-2595Follow and chat with me on: Instagram FacebookTwitterFor show notes and more visit: armanassadi.com/podcastTo work with me: armanassadi.com/consulting

Distraction is deadly. Though, getting distracted now is more common than ever before. Furthermore, the demand for focus is greater now than ever before. So, how can you regain focus in a distracting world? This is a simple trick I use to stop distraction and focus on what I should be doing instead. Prefer listening/reading? Check out the show notes: https://successfularchistudent.com/how-to-stop-getting-distracted/ Check out my FREE online course for architecture students: ▼ 70 Hacks for Architecture Students▼ → https://successfularchistudent.com/← Last night I posted a story on my Instagram explaining how I've discovered some magical solution to getting distracted. Let's face it, we all get distracted and have our attention taken away from what we should be doing. Right now, in this century, the most important characteristic to have is focus. It's what employers are looking for, so it'll make you more hireable, it's what allows you to get more work done and get better grades, it's what allows you to have clarity and comfort within your own life to get more done and achieve great things. Focus. What's this trick that I discovered last night that removes distractions? Let me explain. I remember in the midst of my studio 6 project thinking “right! I've got 8 days to go and have 6 weeks of work to catch up on. I'm going to leave my phone in another room, I'm closing all other programs and I'm not going to get distracted. But first… I should clean my desk. But first, I should check my university emails. I should take the trash out. I should have something to eat.” Yaddi yaddi yadda. Even when we know we have to work without distraction – we sometimes just can't pull ourselves to it. What I did was this… I said no – I'm not going to clean my desk. That's the first step – to say no to the distraction. It's very much a habit you need to develop over time from doing it more and more. Say no and your willpower will get stronger. That's something worth noting too – you need to know what you're actually getting distracted from. We might know that we need to do our studio 6 project. But, what does that actually involve? It might be worth initially investing 5 minutes of your time to figure that out and create a plan for yourself before getting stuck into it. It's like the analogy I often use where we tend to do busy work instead of what's important. It's like we're running on a treadmill, when you need to step off of that and go run towards the finish line. Know what you need to do by creating a plan and schedule. Anyways, this is the trick I did. I got my phone and set an alarm for 1 hour. I put that phone in the room next to me – on do not disturb mode of course – and got to work. Quite often we say, “okay, no distractions, let's go.” And we end up getting distracted like before. That's because we don't know how long we should be working without distraction for. By setting an alarm for 1 hour, it constantly reminds me for that hour that I can't get distracted until I hear that alarm go off.