**Description from Amazon: "I well recall a conversation with an executive I hoped to interview about her astonishing productivity. I began our call with an assurance that I would not take much of her time. She laughed. 'Oh, I have all the time in the world,' she said."Most of us feel constantly behind, unsure how to escape f...

FROM SARAH:

This is (easily) my favorite book so far by Laura Vanderkam. It's full of practical solutions for choosing how to spend your time that I think many homeschooling mamas will appreciate. "Going to bed early is how grown-ups sleep in" might be my favorite line from the whole book!

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

To make time for what matters, you need a resilient schedule, not a perfect schedule. Based on a time diary study of over 150 people, Vanderkam shares nine strategies for building opportunities for joy, nourishment, and fulfillment into your week, such as:

• Three times a week is a habit
• One big adventure, one little adventure
• Effortful before effortless

This is more than a time management book about “how to do it all.” It’s a look at how real people changed their lives using Vanderkam’s nine rules, and how you can do the same.

FROM SARAH:

You’ll feel empowered and encouraged after reading Laura’s work, equipped with practical tools to help you make intentional choices about how you spend your time. It reminded me that time is not a thief, but a landscape, and we have the opportunity to shape it in ways that bless us and those we love.

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

It's an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. We tell ourselves we'd like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbies, and accomplish all kinds of goals. But then we give up because there just aren't enough hours to do it all. Or if we don't make excuses, we make sacrifices- taking time out from other things in order to fit it all in. There has to be a better way...and Laura Vanderkam has found one.

FROM SARAH:

This is a fantastic follow-up to Laura’s book, 168 Hours, filled with her natural optimism, practicality, and gentle guidance about how to make the most of the abundant time we have been given. Instead of focusing on the hours in a week, Laura zooms out and invites readers to consider the year as a whole. Both books are incredible tools for time management, filled with wisdom, encouragement and a variety of tactics for implementing her ideas into your everyday life.

FROM THE PUBLISHER:
By turns surprising, thought-provoking, and encouraging, Big Time shows readers that the daily experience of time can be quite spacious―and that, managed well, each day’s hours can be a source of happiness and satisfaction.