Book Review

168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The basic premise of this book is that we are all given the same 168 hours each week and it's up to us to figure out how to prioritize our activities in those hours to get the most from them.

The author has the reader chart exactly how you spend your day-from sleep to making lunch, to playing on Facebook, and then has you sit back and analyze what you find. She suggests that we each have "core competencies" and that we shouldn't waste our time doing things we don't love to do or aren't talented at doing. One caveat: the author has the means to hire out those things, which many readers will not. She talks about paying someone to shop with her, paying someone to do laundry, to cook, to clean, to do the lawncare.... This is just not reasonable for many folks.

That said, the takeaway for me was the jotting down of my week and totaling up how much time I spend on various things. It made me evaluate how I spend my days and make them more productive and less stressful.


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