Happier Hour
How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most
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4.3 • 8 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Learn how to reframe your time around life’s happiest moments to build days that aren’t just full but fulfilling with this “joyful guide” (Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author) that is the antidote to overscheduling.
Our most precious resource isn’t money. It’s time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling “time poor.” Since we can’t add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives as richer?
Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Professor Cassie Holmes demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Happier Hour provides empirically based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to:
-Optimally spend your hours and feel confident in those choices
-Sidestep distractions
-Create and savor moments of joy
-Design your schedule with purpose
-Look back on your years without regrets
Enlivened by Holmes’s upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research, Happier Hour “is filled with loads and loads of practical, evidence-based advice for how to live better by investing in what really matters. It’s the kind of book that can change your life for the better” (Laurie Santos, Yale professor and host of The Happiness Lab podcast).
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"How can each of us make the absolute most of the time we have?" asks social psychologist Holmes in her enlightening debut. Adapting her UCLA business school course, Holmes pulls from behavioral economics, marketing, and psychology research to offer wisdom on how to optimize one's time "to live a better, happier, and more fulfilling life." She recounts how burnout from her professional and parenting duties spurred her to conduct research that found survey respondents who had two to five hours of free time per day reported being happier than those with more or less time, suggesting that while discretionary time is important, feeling productive also pays happiness dividends. The author recommends "bundling" chores with fun activities, such as listening to an audiobook while folding laundry, and encourages readers to outsource chores when financially practical. She also includes exercises to help readers reflect on their priorities, track how they spend their time, and deepen their appreciation for activities they enjoy. The extensive surveys and studies cited lend Holmes's contentions an intellectual heft that puts this a notch above similar volumes, and her presentation remains accessible and remarkably unstuffy throughout. As thorough as it is practical, this one's well worth readers' time.
