How to gain control of your free time | Laura Vanderkam | TED

Don't waste a second for this movie. Boring as ... you know what. Every reasonable adult will figure out what this woman is trying to say for over 10 minutes. It is a joke that TED becomes a platform for obvious stuff instead of inspiring and new ideas.

The brighter the spotlight, the darker the shadow :D

I didn’t meet my Gf for last two days and She surprisingly visited my Home and caught me watching this :(

Great video

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We don't build the lives we want by saving time, We build the live we wants and then time saves itself.

I don't have time = it's not my priority.

Time is a choice and every Choice had consequences but We have the power to fill our lives with the things that deserve to be there

First we need to figure out what they are.
1. The professional side
Pretend that it's the end of next year you're giving urself a performance review and it has been an absolutely amazing year for u professionally, write down what 3-5 things did u do that made it so amazing? And do the same thing for personal life too like writing the family holiday letter that tell ur friends and family what u did in your personal life that mattered to u over the year

Now we have 6-10 goals we can work on in the next year then we need to break these down into doable steps

We treat our priorities by putting them Into our schedule first.
We do this by thinking through our weeks before we are in them (exp: Friday afternoon) when we are willing to think about what those (doable steps) should be. So take a little bit of time in Friday afternoon and make a three-category priority list (career, relationship and self)
Make 2-3 items in each. Then look out over the whole of the next week and see where u can plan them in.

There are 168 hours in a week and we can find time for what matters to u.

U can use a bits of time for bits of joy. Like choosing something to read on the bus on the way to work.

There is time, even when we're busy we have time to what matters and when we focus on what matters we can build the lives we want in the time we've got

Title wise, this is where I think life becomes a situation and the reason is I heard an employee story demanding to work only 4 days a week, 5 hours a day at an office and to me that's just not fair regardless of the car traffic in a situation and not only but people on the manual labor side well they work more especially retail-factory-fast foods/food industry. Like for me I never got that and I worked manual labor jobs I worked 6 days a week in retail alongside a few 10 hour shifts on retail holidays and some 6 days a week in the food industry and if all these headquarter owned office jobs associated well I think people should work 6 days a week/6 to 8 hours a day either at home or in office. Anyways, that's just not fair within a civil war of Employee vs. Employee from 2 different things in a situation. Not only that, it's not fair where an employee in office has time to make friends and go to clubs and stuff where people in manual don't have that opportunity of exposure, learning, and gaining insight

This video is from 9 years ago at that time social media and AI didn't exist and wasted our time deleting Emails ha!?

I was once late for my speech on Time Management" haha epic

As a professional organizer, I’ve seen it as well. The only thing that I watch with this is the cleaning and decluttering of the house and those who have the resources to hire the extra help versus those who are doing it on their own and I know what people will say. Higher for the low things which is true, but I was burning myself out because I was very successful so I decided to step back on how much I was hustling to get more work to get this big six figure salary and I’m actually happier because I have more money in my account because I’m not paying all the extra networking and staff and I actually have time to be at home and I’ve written four books.

There are 168 hours in a week Even with a full-time job and eight hours of sleep a night, you still have 72 hours left for other pursuits.

Prioritize Ruthlessly for three categories career, relationships, and self. Make schedule to include them every week.
Utilize all small moments

Watched and added to "watched later"

amazing, watch online but clapped at the end

U know that personal person wants only letdown

She is person back photo

Who is looking u .u know 🤔🧠

U know if go ancient times.. thought can happen wrong and can go good way

Science 🔭.. who am I 🤔

U know it's way only going now time, if it's time down 👇 u feel automatic

Actually time spent its own wish..if 🧠 want looking love song, dance.. its human rights.. but real man time spent looking another level if nothing else, but progress by look got new idea..its time spent

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Even if we are busy, we have time for what matters!

Step one : stop watching YouTube at 1 Am

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I don't have time= It's not your priority then

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As a project manager, I could generally agree with the main concept she'd delivered. But just generally, because this was a remarkably & shortly expressed time management theory, with its strong and weak points. Let's delve into details.

STRONG POINTS:
1) The idea of dividing your spare time into 2-3 equally important categories (professional & private & self life) = the project's equivalent of sustainable development = you do not devote all your spare time only to one part of your life.
2) Doing something during something else (reading a book when you commute to work, having dinner with your family, etc.)
= PROJECT'S SYNERGY

WEAK POINTS:
1) Working on 2-3 things in each of the main categories = 3 x 3 = 9 yearly goals, which possibly can be too much if part of them are more complex than the others, so I would recommend: at least one thing in one category, which would be more reliable and it's better to reach only one thing in each sphere than do two things not finishing any;
2) The other side of doing something during something else
= it can be sometimes ridiculous and doubtfully enjoyable, for example, to get enjoyment, while you are commuting by a packed bus, and, in a while, you will have to transfer to another bus; luckily, she pointed this out by herself;
3) Lack of spare unplanned time = lack of space for risk management;
What if, for some reason, you won't be able to do something, or something more important would happen (the lead case of a broken water heater) - OK, you immediately take up your new priority, but what about the other old ones planned? I mean: if all your time is fully planned, you will have to cancel them; a similar case: what if something, for some reason, would take you more time than you had beforehand scheduled
= the same effect - you will have to choose: either you fully do your new priority, or give up the old one;
4) The idea of scheduling all your spare time may also not work
if you won't agree with the others, important people in certain areas of your life, to successfully implement your plan (your boss/co-workers, family members, coaches, etc) because they also have their plans, or they might not help or cooperate with you on something for some reason. And she didn't mention it at all.

TO CONCLUSION: What is the most important in project management
(generally in terms of time management, not only in projects):
if all that we plan is doable, it should meet the S.M.A.R.T. rule:
-Specific;
-Measurable;
-Agreed;
-Reliable;
-Time-bounded.
And I am afraid that the idea she had expressed, however, sounds great in theory, but wouldn't work successfully in practice (without the above corrections).

It is January 8 2026, I am wirting from future, the 8 years ago me, watch it and use it wisely, be aware of how your time passes, learn to use it to your whim, add exercise to your routine and read the damn book you bought or else it will stay on your shelf for years and you will never have peeked into it!

The example of the woman with the water heater who "found" 7 hours in her week is such a bad example. Did she find 7 hours or did other things get neglected because she has an emergency that couldn't be ignored? Maybe she ordered a ton of takeout that week or neglected household chores, or cancelled plans with friends that would have benefited her mental health and connections with others. It's giving "we all have the same 24-hours in the day" vibes.

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She is prettiest girl

I am watching now

who are watching 2026

Really clear and easy to follow.

Definitely subscribing for more.

Focusing on what matters is the key!

Is running errands a funny sentence 😑🤣🤣🤣

@LauraVanderkamAuthor hits the nail on the head. It all starts with 'priority'. In fact, once anyone understands this one bit of wisdom, a lot of things just solve themselves, and a lot less stress occurs. I can recount my personal experience with some people who would waste all day in trivial things like gossiping, sleeping, to the extent of just sitting and doing NOTHING .... literally nothing, but wouldn't do what was right in front of them waiting to be done. Needless to say, it ticked me off many times, because I'm a person who does multiple things and I have no time for humbug or dilly-dallying. So yes, having or not having time is all about priorities; time is elastic when one wants it to be - finally, it's the choice, and that choice can tell us so much about a person. As for those people, I stopped trusting & depending on them to do anything; I got it done faster, better, more efficiently, and it reduced the stress that they caused by their laid-back, downright lazy attitude.

I miss the time when people watched TED talks for this kind of information instead of talking to a lifeless machine.

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Never tired to share this kind of video 🎉🎉🎉

There is time, even if we are busy, we have time for what matters. And if we focus on what matters, we can build the lives we want and the time we’ve got.

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Who is watching in 2026😂😂

The funny thing about the phone is that in that year it wasn't even designed to be addictive! That's a real problem right now where we spend our limited time for unlimited distraction.