Name: I Know How She Does It
ISBN: 9780241972861

Laura Vanderkam

"The most positive take on work and family I've read in a long time" New York Times Do you struggle to balance the demands of a successful career with quality time with family and friends, your hobbies, and even a decent night's sleep? In I Know How She Does It, time management expert and bestselling author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast Laura Vanderkam reveals the surprising strategies you can use to spend more time on the things you enjoy. By following her advice, you will be able to work less, sleep more, enjoy date nights, go to the gym and socialise. Based on hour-by-hour time logs from 1,001 days in the lives of real women, Vanderkam proves that you don't have to give up on the things you really want. I Know How She Does It offers specific strategies proven to help you build a life that works, one hour at a time.

How Successful Women Make the Most of their Time

I Know How She Does It

From the bestselling author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, powerful insights from 1001 actual days in the lives of high-achieving women. Balancing work and family life is a constant struggle, especially for women with children and ambitious career goals. It's been the subject of countless books, articles, blog posts and tweets in the last few years, and passions run high in all directions. Now Laura Vanderkam, the acclaimed time management expert, comes at the having it all” debate by asking a very practical question. Given that we all have the same 168 hours every week, how do people who do have it allwomen with thriving careers and familiesuse those hours? When you study how such women fit together the pieces of their lives, like tiles in a mosaic, the results are surprising. If you work 40 hours and sleep 56 (i.e. 8 times 7) that leaves 72 hours for everything else. Vanderkam explains how her subjects use those everything else” hours; why we work less and have more free time than we think; why it's a myth that successful women get too little sleep; and how women can have demanding jobs, spouses, and kids, and still enjoy a healthy amount of downtime. She shares the time-logs from 1001 days in the lives of women who make at least $100,000 a year and still make time for their families and friends, for sleep and exercise, and for leisure activities they love. Based on what she learned from the patterns in those time-logs, she provides a framework for anyone who wants to thrive at both work and life.

How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

I Know how She Does it

Sarah Schumacher

Made it 1/3 of the way in. Analysis of a bunch of random women’s daily schedules was just not interesting to me. I only picked this up from the library because it was referenced by a writer I follow, so I knew nothing about it. I feel like the gist was that if you manage your time well you do have time for everything? Whatever the thesis was must not have been stated clearly enough/made interesting enough for me to feel like this was worth reading. I have too many other good books I’m reading/on my Want To Read list to bother with this one.

As a working mother, this book spoke to me directly. I often feel like I am not spending my time wisely - A common issue for most people. 

The book is filled with ways to manage time better. The biggest learning -I need to stop looking at how I spend my time in 24 hrs of a day but instead look at how I spend 168 hrs of my week. 

Simple reframing, investing in childcare and getting mindful with how I spend my time can help. This audiobook was a good reminder. 

garima mamgain

As a working mother, this book spoke to me directly. I often feel like I am not spending my time wisely - A common issue for most people. 

The book is filled with ways to manage time better. The biggest learning -I need to stop looking at how I spend my time in 24 hrs of a day but instead look at how I spend 168 hrs of my week. 

Simple reframing, investing in childcare and getting mindful with how I spend my time can help. This audiobook was a good reminder. 

I Know How She Does It How Successful Women Make the Most of their Time

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