How To Use Time Management To Increase Happiness

Nick Wyatt
12 min readJun 14, 2023
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“Knowledge is the source of wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes innovation.”

Peter Drucker

If there’s anything that I’ve learned throughout my life, it’s that you should always make it a habit to identify your strengths and play to them. I believe in preaching productivity because it’s not only requires innovation, it requires a fair amount of self-reflection.

With time management being a built-in feature of productivity, the next question is:

What happens when you add structure to efficient action?

Knowing where, when and how you are spending your time can lead you down a path of illumination, clarity and certainty. It also just happens to make you an overall happier person.

How so?

People who actively engage in structured pursuits of goals are more likely to induce “States of Flow”. The term was first coined by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, the happiness researcher and “Father of Flow” defines the term as:

“A state in which people are so involved in an activity that…

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Nick Wyatt

"It's not what you got, it's what you PLAN to get that truly matters." Writer & FX Trader 📈🔄🏁✈️🏆🧘🏾