35 Quotes by Laura Vanderkam

In 168 hours, there is plenty of space to nurture yourself alongside your career and your relationships.

You don’t build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself.

Successful people know that small things done repeatedly have great power.

It is a metaphor for life, perhaps, in that everything is a metaphor for life. The berry season is short. So how full, exactly, do I intend to fill the box? Or, if we slice away the metaphor, we could just ask this: what does the good life look like for me?

If you choose your life’s work well, something bewitching can happen through your labors. Each hour you log can be a source of joy.

Ultimately, self-control lets you relax because it removes stress and enables you to conserve willpower for the important challenges.

In life, you can be unhappy, or you can change things. And even if there are things you can’t change, you can often change your mind-set and question assumptions that are making life less goof than it could be.

You need to hit Monday ready to go... To do that, you need weekends that rejuvenate you, rather than exhaust or disappoint you. Cross-training makes you a better athlete, and likewise, exercise, volunteer work, and spiritual activities make you a better worker.

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.