Happier Hour
How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most
Published on 6. September 2022
320 pages
978-1-9821-4882-9 (ISBN)
Description
Learn how to reframe your time around life's happiest moments to build days that aren't just full but fulfilling with this "joyful guide" (Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author) that is the antidote to overscheduling.
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." 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 demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Happier Hour provides empirically based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to:
-Optimally spend your hours and feel confident in those choices
-Sidestep distractions
-Create and savor moments of joy
-Design your schedule with purpose
-Look back on your years without regrets
Enlivened by Holmes's upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research, Happier Hour "is filled with loads and loads of practical, evidence-based advice for how to live better by investing in what really matters. It's the kind of book that can change your life for the better" (Laurie Santos, Yale professor and host of The Happiness Lab podcast).
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." 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 demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Happier Hour provides empirically based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to:
-Optimally spend your hours and feel confident in those choices
-Sidestep distractions
-Create and savor moments of joy
-Design your schedule with purpose
-Look back on your years without regrets
Enlivened by Holmes's upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research, Happier Hour "is filled with loads and loads of practical, evidence-based advice for how to live better by investing in what really matters. It's the kind of book that can change your life for the better" (Laurie Santos, Yale professor and host of The Happiness Lab podcast).
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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 Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and more. Happier Hour is her first book.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Chapter One: Time Poor and Tired
- Chapter Two: All the Time in the World
- Get Moving Exercise
- Random Acts of Kindness Exercise
- Chapter Three: Wiser Spending
- Time Tracking Exercise
- Part I: Track Your Time
- Part II: Identify Your Most and Least Happy Times
- Part III: Calculate Your Current Expenditures
- Get Sleep Exercise
- Chapter Four: Waste Management
- Five Whys Exercise
- Chapter Five: Pause and Smell the Roses
- Times Left Exercise
- Chapter Six: Driven to Distraction
- Five Senses Meditation Exercise
- Digital Detox Exercise
- Chapter Seven: The Time Jar
- Joyful Activities Exercise
- Chapter Eight: Time Crafting
- Chapter Nine: The Time of Your Life
- Eulogy Exercise
- Learning from Admired Elders Exercise
- Gratitude Letter Exercise
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright
