One Change to Go From Being Time Poor to Time Rich with Cassie Holmes

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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389. One Change to Go From Being Time Poor to Time Rich with Cassie Holmes Chaired professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and best selling author, Cassie Holmes, discusses how much time is enough. She also shares how free time is linked to happiness – and the importance of defining your values to figure out how to spend your time. -The surprising statistic about how much time we spend distracted -The surefire way to finally feel successful in life -How much free time you actually need to be happy -An exercise you can do to help you avoid deathbed regret Cassie Holmes is a chaired professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness, and bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. The course that she developed and now teaches, Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, is among UCLA’s most popular courses for graduate business students and executives. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, so something cool has been happening in my life that I have been doing, which Abby knows, because she's been watching.
0:11.0	I have, for the first time in five years, been setting my little alarm at night to get up very early and write.
0:19.2	I have been writing again.
0:22.2	And it has been a treat for me.
0:27.1	Okay?
0:28.3	Me too.
0:29.0	And then here's what I've been doing with my writing each day.
0:32.0	I've been doing the same thing that I did during my early blogging days
0:35.6	where I avoided perfectionism by saying, I'm just going to
0:43.0	write for an hour and a half or an hour, and then I'm going to send.
0:48.4	Press scent. And that kept me from perfectionism, which is why all the rest of my career unfolded.
0:56.5	Okay.
0:57.5	What I've been doing with these little writings is I've been sending them in a newsletter
1:02.7	to all the lovebugs who are registered for my newsletter.
1:09.5	Okay?
1:10.6	I don't know what the hell is going to happen. All I know is
1:13.2	it's great fun so far. It reminds me of my early writing days. It's just us. It's just me writing.
1:19.8	I avoided newsletters for so long because I don't like newsletters. I always feel like when I get one
1:26.4	that feels overwhelming. It feels like it's mostly just like a
1:29.4	report of everything the person has been accomplishing in the world, which feels like, why is this
1:34.9	for me? This feels like it's for you. Like should I write back and say congratulations? Like I don't
1:40.5	know. Anyway, I just decided I wanted, if I was going to do a newsletter, I wanted it to be
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