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I Know How She Does It

How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

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I Know How She Does It

By: Laura Vanderkam
Narrated by: Laura Vanderkam
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Do you struggle to balance the demands of a successful career with quality time with family and friends, your hobbies, and even a decent night's sleep?

In I Know How She Does It, time management expert and best-selling author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, Laura Vanderkam reveals the surprising strategies you can use to spend more time on the things you enjoy.

By following her advice, you will be able to work less, sleep more, enjoy date nights, go to the gym and socialise.

Based on hour by hour time logs from 1,001 days in the lives of real women, Vanderkam proves that you don't have to give up on the things you really want. I Know How She Does It offers specific strategies proven to help you build a life that works, one hour at a time.

©2015 Laura Vanderkam (P)2015 Penguin Audio Career Success Personal Development Time Management Career Employment

Critic Reviews

"The most positive take on work and family I've read in a long time." ( The New York Times)
"This book has given me a glimmer of hope about the having-it-all dilemma." ( Daily Mail)
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Love the time management tips but the best bit is the different perspective on time management and the reminder to make time for fun. Favourite quote - You don't make a life by saving time, you make a life and then the time saves itself.

A different perspective

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I enjoyed listening to Laura's narration and got quite a lot out of it. I was hoping to hear more practical examples but came away inspired to make the most of my time knowing I can achieve more than I previously thought.

A motivating read

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I downloaded this book expecting tips and tricks on how to time save. Instead, I came away with a different mindset of how I spend my time and the expanse of time that is available to me currently. It also helped overcome mum guilt which comes from working a 45-50 hour week and the understanding that, on a whole, I do spend significant time with my kids over the week. It also motivated me to wholly focus on what I’m doing at the time (especially when I’m with my kids) I really enjoyed this book- Thankyou.

Not what I expected, but I really enjoyed it

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post baby I literally lost myself, this book helped me get back on my feet again and aced work/life once more

this book changed my life!

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listened on audible and really appreciated the no-nonsense well researched approach. useful and thought provoking. will definitely read more from this author

inspiring

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If you could sum up I Know How She Does It in three words, what would they be?

It makes sense

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This made me think about how I spend my time and how I might consider my time going forward. I got a lot out of this book.

Now I know how to do it too.

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It helped me greatly and opened my eyes on different ways of seeing a busy life and enjoying it too

I know How she does it

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Found it difficult to relate given the author is talking about having a nanny and a lot of women in the Mosaic Project that she speaks about have a lot of help with their kids. I don’t have that. All I really got from it was that if you sit down and calculate how much time you spend with your kids it’s actually quite a lot. I guess that’s meant to make us feel less guilty for having to work. The mindset shift may be inspiring and world changing for some but unfortunately not for me.

Mindset shift

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