"Help! I don't have any time!"

Almost 50% of women say they don't have enough hours in the day. Here, easy ways to discover where your time really goes and how to make it more rewarding

- Laura Vanderkam, Rebecca Morrison and Holly Reisem Hanna

ID time traps

Keep a log 

Whether you use your phone’s voice memo or jot down your activities, tracking your time will help you find sneaky “time sucks,” says expert Laura Vanderkam. “Try it for one week, logging what you do in half-hour increments,” she advises. “You might learn that you clocked 3 hours a day on Facebook, when you meant to be on it for just 15 minutes. I’ve kept a ‘time log’ for eight years and it reveals many surprises.”

Be intentional

“Ask yourself, When I finish X, do I feel better or worse?” urges expert Rebecca Morrison. “For example, I was falling down a rabbit hole of social media at night, leading me to delay bedtime.” This realization helped Morrison become more intentional. “Instead of staying up at night, I now check social media in the morning with my coffee,” she says. No need to ditch guilty pleasures: Striking a balance is often a matter of when you do something.

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