83. Your Best Time Management: Knowing What to Let Go with Oliver Burkeman

There is a fresh – rather freeing – perspective when it comes to “time-management” that can relieve us from stressing over our inboxes and to-do lists.  Our guest, Oliver Burkeman, is just the one to have discovered it because he wrote a column for the Guardian for 10 years about time management. And then one day realized that much of the schemes and advice for managing time were nonsense. Instead, the solution to our overwhelming dilemma with time starts somewhere we might never look. This conversation is both freeing and fun.   Oliver is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking and Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done (2011), a collection of his columns for the Guardian newspaper. We go deeper into his new book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals and his insights about how to reach a fulfilling and meaningfully productive life.   Let’s jump into how to have a fully productive life! [00:01 - 10:10] Opening Segment   Oliver introduces Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals How we think and feel about time The need to do social and psychology research Analyze time management techniques and productivity systems Why people should sacrifice projects, goals, and causes to nurture relationships  The urgent vs the important The role of social media on your life You should understand the news are not your life   [10:11 - 29:57] Your Best Time Management: Knowing What to Let Go   Each day is something you have to go through to a more fulfilling future Have a winning mindset and feel the truth of each situation See the value on the moments you’re actually living Oliver explains the rocks in the jar parable Make time for the things that really matter The challenge is to decide what rock you won’t put on the jar Be on the outlook for things you are doing daily