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Here is a new study claiming that time management is deeply tied to happiness and personal well-being. To wit:
Despite narratives that suggest time management is primarily a work or career-based skill, the strongest link was between good time management and wellbeing: the effect of time management on life satisfaction was 72% stronger than on job satisfaction. Time management also reduced feelings of distress.
I actually wrote an article back on July 1, 2016 called “The Time Management Era Is Upon Us.” At that time, I had been predominantly freelance and work-from-home for about seven months, maybe eight. While I’ve had some problems with day drinking as a result of my relative schedule freedom, it’s also helped keep my head above general happiness water for many years. When I’ve had contracts that demand I go into an office and sit there even if there’s really nothing to do, I tend to be miserable. So, this study makes a lot of sense.
We know from research that humans generally want autonomy from work, which is the paradoxical reason that employee engagement scores — however flawed they are as a concept — actually went up during the pandemic. Why? While working at home was a complete bitch for many, and some homes/apartments are small, and we very much had a “she-cession,” the sheer fact remains that a lot of humans had control over their…
