Coaching practices for Time Affluence Practices Cassie Holmes in a New Job

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  • I’m busy from morning to night but at the end of the week I can’t point to a single thing I did that actually mattered to me
  • There’s a job that pays more but eats my evenings, and a longer commute that saves a little cash, and I keep instinctively grabbing the money option
  • I’m right in the middle of a big upheaval
  • I’ve got a big move (or a new job) coming up in a couple of months, and I can feel it’s a rare chance to start fresh
  • I said yes to one volunteer role and now it’s a hydra

Practices that may help

  1. Time Affluence Practices (Cassie Holmes)
    Cassie Holmes’s research on time and happiness identifies several evidence-backed habits that increase felt time abundance: protecting a moderate amount of discretionary time, spending time on activities that match your strengths, investing in experiences over things, and being present in time you already have. Effects are real but modest; the biggest single factor is how you allocate and attend to the time you have, not how much of it there is.
  2. Start the week by connecting your schedule to what you value
    Time feels well spent when you can articulate why it aligns with what matters to you.
    Time Affluence Practices (Cassie Holmes)
  3. Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence
    Ashley Whillans’s research shows that "time affluence" — the subjective sense of having enough time — predicts well-being better than income beyond a moderate level, and that concrete practices like outsourcing disliked tasks and protecting time for meaningful activities measurably raise it. The core studies are correlational with some experimental support for specific interventions.
  4. Choose time over money on purpose
    When trade-offs arise, weight time more heavily than the extra dollars.
    Time Affluence, Made Practical
  5. Use a life transition to break old environment-behavior links
    Major context changes (a move, a new job) create a rare window where old habits are disrupted and new ones are easier to form.
    Environment Design for Behavior Change
  6. Identify and anticipate upcoming transition windows
    Treat approaching life changes as scheduled opportunities for habit installation — plan before the transition, not after.
    The Habit Discontinuity Effect
  7. Identify and exit contagious time traps
    Some commitments multiply — each yes generates three new asks — and identifying them is the first line of defense.
    Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence
  8. Use social transitions to change the norms around your behavior
    When your social group changes, use the transition to adopt the behavioral norms of the new group rather than carrying old ones.
    The Habit Discontinuity Effect
  9. Time Affluence, Made Practical
    Time affluence is the felt sense of having enough time, the opposite of "time famine" — the chronic feeling of being rushed. Research suggests that valuing time over money, and spending money to buy back time, predict greater happiness, though much of the evidence is correlational and the effects, while real, are modest.
  10. Actively choose time over money at decision points
    People who habitually trade money for time report higher life satisfaction than those who do the reverse.
    Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence

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