I Know How She Does It Quotes

“You don’t build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself. Recognizing that is what makes success possible.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“Time is elastic. It stretches to accommodate what we need or want to do with it.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“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.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“Getting adequate sleep is a sign that the world doesn't need your attention for seven to nine hours each day. It keeps spinning as usual in its orbit. Who wants to admit that?”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“In 168 hours, there is plenty of space to nurture yourself alongside your career and your relationships.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“Sometimes life is hard for a good reason. Sometimes narratives serve no purpose beyond keeping you from the life you want.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“You don’t build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“Fortunately, being mindful of family time—making a commitment to be there physically and mentally and enjoy life while doing so—makes memories possible. We control a lot less about our children’s outcomes in life than we think. They are their own people. But one thing parents do shape is whether kids remember their childhoods as happy. Creating a happy home is a conscious choice, as is creating a happy marriage.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of their Time

“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?”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“Am I making progress toward things that are important to me?”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“The key to this is realizing that life isn’t lived in epiphanies, and that looking for lessons and the necessity of big life changes in dark moments profoundly limits our lives.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“We have plenty of time. Averaged over the entire American population, people watch almost as much television as they work. If people don’t exercise, it’s because they don’t want to exercise. Time becomes the scapegoat. Time becomes the scapegoat for all sorts of things, which explains the phrase “If you want something done, ask a busy person.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“You don't become a better parent or employee by not enjoying your life.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“This conscious decision to hunt for the positive can help combat the common tendency to focus on dark moments, the sort that lead us to stormy conclusions about whether life with a big career and a family is doable. Sometimes things look bleak, but life is not all black-and-white.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“Second, we need to savor moments as they come. A lot of time and life management is mental. The human brain easily wanders and it wanders more to worries than to happy musings on what a blessed life you have. Such ruminations steal happiness.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“But what if this logical leap--these stressful things happened, and therefore life is crazy and unsustainable--limits our stories? The human brain is structured for loss aversion, and so negative moments stand out more starkly than positive moments, particularly if they fit a popular thesis.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast),”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

“Think of a typical full-time worker, who's in the office from nine to five daily, but takes thirty minutes for lunch, leaves an hour early on Friday, and comes in an hour late on Tuesday due to a dental appointment. That puts her at 35.5 hours for the week. One errand tacked on to the end of lunch one day or a longish midmorning break will pull her under that thirty-five-hour threshold that defines "full time.”
― Laura Vanderkam, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time