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What are your Time Traps? Find them and Make Changes.
Time Trap Self-Assessment based on the work of Harvard Professor Dr. Ashley Whillans
Roger Thompson
January 14, 2024
Time Traps:
Evaluate your time traps that are distracting you from achieving, or enjoying what you love most. At the end of this edition, there is a “Time Traps Habits - Self Assessment” that I encourage you to try - the lower the score the better for this one.
I scored a 15/48 which is pretty low and shows some room for improvement.
My traps are:
Technology Distractions
Yes…Damn Effect
Setting Boundaries
“Where your attention goes, your time goes”
Dr. Ashley Whillans, a professor at Harvard Business School. “Her research seeks to understand the associations between time, money, and subjective wellbeing. She is particularly interested in understanding how individual, organizational and societal factors like gender, workplace policies, and income inequality predict how people value and spend time and money, with possible implications for well-being”.
This self-assessment is based on research conducted by Dr. Whillans.
Tool of the Week
Thanks for reading.
-Roger
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The Latest Research:
The article examines gender differences in time use during the COVID-19 pandemic:
Women, particularly mothers, dedicated more time to childcare and household chores.
This increase in domestic responsibilities led to lower happiness and well-being for women.
The study includes data from multiple countries, highlighting universal patterns.
Pandemic conditions intensified pre-existing gender disparities in domestic labor.
For managers, understanding these dynamics is crucial to support equitable work environments and policies, especially in crisis situations like pandemics.
