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Author of Big Time (2026), #IKnowHowSheDoesIt (2015), #168Hours (2010) and #TranquilityByTuesday (2022). #Timemanagement speaker and podcaster.
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‘Inside the Box’ Review: The Benefits of Boundaries

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By Laura Vanderkam
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
Bach composed best by hewing to a strict format. From art to business, constraints can unleash rather than stifle creativity. The periodic table supposedly came to Dmitri Mendeleev in a dream. Freed from the limits of the conscious world during a nap in early 1869, the Russian chemist entered a fantastical space where the elements danced around him until they assembled into the tidy arrangement that we know today. It is a great story.
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On Making Time to Read War and Peace and Other Great Literary Works

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By Laura Vanderkam
| Literary Hub Verified
If you’re a serious reader, you probably have a few intimidating books on your book bucket list. Maybe it’s Ulysses or Moby Dick or Middlemarch or that door stopper of an epic, War and Peace. We might tell ourselves we’ll read those books when life calms down—when work doesn’t have so many deadlines, or the kids are older—and we might. But I think even busy people can make time to read big books now with a thoughtful approach that involves breaking big projects down into tiny chunks.
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The Books I Recommend If You’re Trying to Manage Your Time Better

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By Robin Sharma, Brian Tracy, Stephen Covey, Laura Vanderkam
| Ebroky
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Efficient time management takes, well, time to perfect. There are a variety of hacks out there to help you schedule, focus, and complete your work, but it’s still hard to actually do all of that without the right guidance and mindset. If you’re struggling with time management, it might be worth spending some time digging deep on the topic and reading what experts have to say.
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