Time Smart

 

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steps to finding time and funding time

So far, you’ve reflected on your feelings of time poverty, documented a few ways in which you fall into the six most common time traps, and determined whether you broadly value time or money.

Now it’s time to get specific. We face thousands, maybe tens of thousands of these time−money decisions each year. Some, such as career decisions, take time and carry profound consequences.¹ Other decisions are made in seconds, such as deciding whether to take an Uber or a commuter train to the airport.² A few barely register in our consciousness, such as turning to our phone when it buzzes.

Before I started studying time−money trade-offs, I often overlooked small, potentially costly decisions. I thought about ...