168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think

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Overall, it’s a good strategy to combine with another strategy—like time blocking—as this is more focused on managing your time in the more holistic fashion. Figure out how you spend your time: Honestly, this is more down to the effectiveness of time tracking, than the strategy. Most of us are used to thinking about time in terms of only a handful of hours—eight hours of work a day, seven hours of sleep, 24 hours in a day.

Wring value out of every minute of your day; spend your time in ways which are congruent with your values. You should now have a good understanding of why thinking about your time in 24-hour increments is not always the best solution.All in all, this book inspired me to take a long, hard look at how I spend my time and encouraged me to use my 168 hours wisely. Have your personal assistant/executive assistant/secretary make your appointments, manage your schedule, and take care of the little tasks that add up.

It's a book about how to be more responsible about your time and use it wisely however I couldn't help feeling like I was wasting my time reading it. This time management strategy will help you hack psychology and bypass that optimism bias so that you can actually understand where your time is going and adjust it accordingly. In Bill Gates' words, “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.Easily identify tasks that eat time: This is an especially effective way to determine which activities are taking up more time than perhaps you realized. The other problem with thinking about your time in increments of 24 hours instead of 168 hours, is that it is inherently more stressful (you feel you have “less time”), especially if you don’t take the planning fallacy into consideration—the phenomenon whereby an individual displays the “optimism bias” and thinks they need less time than they do to complete a given task, regardless of historical evidence to the contrary. The idea of the book is that you have 168 hours in a week, so surely you have time to do the things that you want. Like many people, I struggle with motivation and focus so I'm always looking for wisdom or advice on topics like time management, productivity. By being more productive at work and home, you’ll create more free time to focus on the truly fulfilling activities in your life, rather than the simply mundane.