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A review by librarykate
I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time by Laura Vanderkam
5.0
As a working mother, I like to read books about time management. Understanding and better using the time I have is very important to me. There are couple things I liked about this book, and one thing that I didn't.
First, I liked that Vanderkam recommends thinking of the week as a whole rather than the day as a whole. I like this approach because days understandably have fewer hours, and certain days are filled up with work very quickly.
Second, I liked her approach to scheduling leisure. It is much too easy to find yourself in the facebook scroll, but if you are conscientious, there is a lot you can do.
The one thing that I didn't like was how much time was spent talking about ways to flex your schedule. I work in an industry that doesn't really allow for much flexibility, and that whole chapter felt wasted. Vanderkam kept alluding to different aspects of flex schedule throughout the rest of the book, and I would have preferred more ideas for making a traditional schedule work rather then encouraging a non-traditional schedule.
First, I liked that Vanderkam recommends thinking of the week as a whole rather than the day as a whole. I like this approach because days understandably have fewer hours, and certain days are filled up with work very quickly.
Second, I liked her approach to scheduling leisure. It is much too easy to find yourself in the facebook scroll, but if you are conscientious, there is a lot you can do.
The one thing that I didn't like was how much time was spent talking about ways to flex your schedule. I work in an industry that doesn't really allow for much flexibility, and that whole chapter felt wasted. Vanderkam kept alluding to different aspects of flex schedule throughout the rest of the book, and I would have preferred more ideas for making a traditional schedule work rather then encouraging a non-traditional schedule.