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From the Ted Talk by Laura Vanderkam: How to gain control of your free time

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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Open Cloze

And so the key to time management is treating our __________ as the equivalent of that broken water heater. To get at this, I like to use ________ from one of the busiest people I ever ___________. By busy, I mean she was running a small ________ with 12 people on the payroll, she had six children in her spare time. I was getting in touch with her to set up an interview on how she "had it all" — that ______. I remember it was a Thursday morning, and she was not available to speak with me. Of course, right?

Solution

  1. business
  2. interviewed
  3. phrase
  4. priorities
  5. language

Original Text

And so the key to time management is treating our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater. To get at this, I like to use language from one of the busiest people I ever interviewed. By busy, I mean she was running a small business with 12 people on the payroll, she had six children in her spare time. I was getting in touch with her to set up an interview on how she "had it all" — that phrase. I remember it was a Thursday morning, and she was not available to speak with me. Of course, right?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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performance review 2
holiday letter 2
friday afternoons 2
find time 2
work weeks 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
absolutely amazing year 2
family holiday letter 2

Important Words

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  5. children
  6. equivalent
  7. heater
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  12. management
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  17. priorities
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  24. thursday
  25. time
  26. touch
  27. treating
  28. water