Happier Hour - Cassie Holmes PhD

Design Your Retirement – Take charge of your future with our small group coaching program starting in January. Limited to 10 participants. | Early Bird Pricing ends in December. |Learn more here __________________________   "...the solution to happiness or satisfaction is not actually being time rich, it's about making the time that you have rich." - Cassie Holmes, PhD   The biggest investment decisions you're making aren't about your 401(k) or IRA. They're about your time. Cassie Holmes, PhD, shares her research on the intersection of time and happiness. Listen in for research-based exercises and practical tips that can help you wisely craft your time, increase your satisfaction and retire happy. Cassie Holmes joins us from Los Angeles. ___________________________ Bio Cassie Mogilner Holmes is a Professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness. Her research examines such questions as how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one’s lifetime, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. Across these inquiries, her findings highlight the joy that stems from interpersonal connection and paying attention to the present moment. Cassie’s academic research on the role of time in cultivating well-being has been published in leading academic journals, including Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Journal of Consumer Research, and earned her the Early Career Award from both the Association of Consumer Research and the Society of Consumer Psychology. Cassie was identified by Poets & Quants as one of the best 40 business professors under 40, and popular accounts of her research have been featured on NPR and in such publications as The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Scientific American. Professor Cassie Holmes is the author of the book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course, “Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.” Holmes is a faculty affiliate with The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the research, education, and practice of kindness. Previously, Holmes was a tenured faculty member and award-winning teacher at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and a B.A. from Columbia. ___________________________ For More on Cassie Holmes, PhD Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most Time Crafting - Time Tracker Worksheet Website ___________________________ Podcast Episodes You May Like Retire Happy – Dr. Catherine Sanderson The Power of Fun – Catherine Price Everyday Vitality – Dr. Samantha Boardman Well-Being & Longevity – Dr. Jennifer Boylan _____________________________ Wise Quotes On What Influences Happiness "So what we think about and what we intentionally do in our day-to-day has a significant influence on our happiness, more so than those circumstances that we think are the secrets to happiness. And so in my work, because I look at the role of time, I very much frame this as how do we think about and choose to invest the time that we have? How does that influence the joy that we experience in our days and the satisfaction we feel about our lives?" On Time Tracking "...really what I'm sharing is the research to help people to maximize the amount of time that they experience is worthwhile, minimize the time that is wasted or that people are moving through almost like letting it be wasted. And there's two components of that. One is spending time, investing time on activities that are worthwhile.