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In order to get more done, we must first feel like we have all the time in the world. Think about it: why havent you trained for that 5K or read War and Peace? Probably because you feel beaten down by all the time you dont seem to have ... In this book, Vanderkam reveals the seven counter-intuitive principles the most time-free people have adopted. She teaches mindset shifts to help you feel calm on the busiest days and tools to help you get more done without feeling overwhelmed ... The strategies in this book can help if your life feels out of control, but they can also help if you want to take your career, your relationships, and your personal happiness to the next level. Vanderkam has packed this book with insights from busy yet relaxed professionals, including time makeovers of people who are learning how to use these tools.--Inside dust jacket.;The time paradox -- Tend your garden -- Make life memorable -- Dont fill time -- Linger -- Invest in your happiness -- Let it go -- People are a good use of time.

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Copyright 2018 by Laura Vanderkam

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Vanderkam, Laura, author.

Title: Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done / Laura Vanderkam.

Description: New York: Portfolio/Penguin, [2018]

Identifiers: LCCN 2018002725 | ISBN 9780735219816 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780735219823 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Time management. | Work-life balance.

Classification: LCC HD69.T54 V3625 2018 | DDC 650.1/1dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018002725

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To Alex

In science that day, Dr. Pavlica had mentioned the speed of light, and Id heard the speed of life. While he was going on about E = mc, I was thinking again about how crazy it is that life just speeds along, sunrise after sunrise, season after season. Whether youre totally miserable or insanely happy, the months keep coming, crashing like waves. There are no do-overs, no backsies, and bad stuff happens. But then I thought, Wait. Good stuff happens too. And sometimes, even a kiss can slow time down.

Carol Weston, Speed of Life

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE TIME PARADOX

I look upon time as no more than an idea.

Mary Oliver, When Death Comes

One July Friday not long ago, I woke in a hotel room in the little town of Bar Harbor, Maine. My husband, Michael, and I had originally planned to go on a work trip for him that weekend, and so my mother and aunt had come to watch our four small children. Then we found out he didnt have to go. We seized the opportunity to take a grown-ups-only hiking trip in Acadia National Park. I took the last flight from Philadelphia on Thursday night, and drove through a midnight storm from Bangor to the coast. Michael, coming from Seattle, planned to meet me there around lunch the next day.

So on Friday morning, I was by myself. I drifted awake, put on my running clothes, and took off to explore. It was a gorgeous summer morning. The newly risen sun had washed away all traces of rain and fog from the night before. I ran in the direction of the ocean, and entered the town proper as Bar Harbor was waking up. Breakfast smells drifted out of the restaurants. Just as in Robert McCloskeys childrens book One Morning in Maine, I saw boats, evergreens, the hills. A light wind blew off the waves. This mist made the July heat gentle on my bare arms. It was so pleasant as I pounded along the narrow path by the water, full of rocks and flowers, that I was thinking of little until the usual sensation popped into my head: OK, what time is it? What do I have to do next?

But there was no required next thing. I was free to do what I wished. I recalled a phrase from the summer when I was seventeen and taking dinner orders at Fazolis restaurant on Indianas State Route 933. Come the end of my shift, I would punch out to a liberated state: I was off the clock.

That sense of time freedom is magical. It is also, for many of us, a rare and fleeting feeling. Though my work has become shockingly cushier since that $4.90/hour summer, other obligationssuch as those I was fleeing in Mainehave conspired to create a reality where I can name the few days in recent years when I have felt this total freedom. As I wrote in my journal of one such day Id managed to create on a trip to San Diego:

I cant say I had any particularly deep thoughts... Just a lot of staring at the ocean and reading and thinking. And walking 20,000 steps. It was nice to feel unhurried. No clock ticking in the background, no one waiting for me, so I could watch the sunset in peace. All of it. I think that has been the aspect of having kids that is the hardestbeing constantly accountable for my time.

Any busy person can sympathize with that feeling, and I suppose my life falls into this category. My husband and I both have careers that involve clients and travel. Our childrenJasper, Sam, Ruth, and Alexare, as I write this, all age ten and under. With all the moving parts, it makes sense that I would need to know where the time goes, but because I make my living speaking and writing about time management, which makes a virtue of accountability, I must grapple with my mixed emotions more intensely than most.

Feeling off the clock is exhilarating. It is a key component of human happiness. And yet a life is lived in hours, and living the good life requires being a proper steward of those hours. This stewardship often requires choices that come from being mindful of time. My free morning in Maine required figuring out the logistics of childcare, flights, and car rentals. Being off the clock in San Diego demanded similar logistics. It also meant bringing myself to that transcendent ocean rather than scrolling through social media posts on other peoples transcendent ocean experiences. More broadly, it is hard to relax and enjoy time when there are looming projects whose constituent parts have not been mapped out, or amid the malaise of knowing swaths of your wild and precious life, as the poet Mary Oliver puts it, are lost to the vague anxiety of traffic, aimless meetings, and such that the brain doesnt even catalog in memory.

So we come to some paradoxes. Being off the clock implies time freedom, yet time freedom stems from time discipline. You must know where the time goes in order to transcend the ceaseless ticking.

You can wander into philosophical knots on such matters, knots you might need to run miles along the coast to sort out, but I believe that part of wisdom is knowing that two contradictory concepts can both be right when seen from a broader perspective. The key is finding the right vantage point on the cliff to take in the full view.

This book is about finding that lookout spot for understanding time freedom. It is about developing a new mind-set. There will always be tension between knowing how we spend our time and moving beyond an obsession with the minutes. Yet this tension does not mean that both arent simultaneously possible. Honoring time requires embracing certain truths: that time is precious and time is plentiful. Time is finite, so we must make smart choices about it. But time is also abundant: there is enough for anything that truly matters.

Who Feels Pressed for Time?

Much discussion of modern life is premised on the first part of this paradox. Colleagues answer the How was your weekend? greeting on Monday morning with the ubiquitous Busy. Trend stories assume we are all starved for time, though a closer look at this perception finds that all is stretching things. During a recent trip to the gym on a Saturday morningfit in after dropping off Sam at a wrestling meet for his team warm-up, but before his first matchI noted that the older ladies whod just exited the pool and were in the locker room with me were

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