168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think

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I’m willing to go out on a limb and bet you’re either overestimating or underestimating what you’re doing with your time. Again, I'm not sure the average person can afford to hire someone to do the family's laundry simply because it's not an enjoyable task. You can tell that she put both the leg work and desk work into this book, and for some reason her strategies and point sounds very sound and pragmatic, unlike other productivity books that I've read in the past.

This should give you an estimate of how much “free time” you have, how much time you are spending on each task or activity, and where you might want to reallocate time.I truly hate to stop reading a book halfway through, but by the time I got to the chapter about "new household economies", I couldn't shake the feeling that the author has no comprehension of the realities of an average American life. You can make a "homecooked" dinner in fifteen minutes by opening a few jars and taking advantage of pre-prepared (and more expensive, but that's okay because you can afford it) foods.

i'm sure she felt as stressed out as someone who really did work 80 hours a week, but that was probably a function of guilt over having such terrible time management skills. Just as you need a “work team” to support your career, you need a “home team” to help you focus on your core competencies and save time in your personal life.I've yet to read any magic technique that will tell you that you are getting the most out of your life. If you just exercise every time you want to watch tv, you'll be a competitive athlete in a couple years! We plan our lives around these small time slots, becoming ever more harried and stressed as we struggle to do the things we say we will do, or want to do, in the allocated time.