Time management expert Laura Vanderkam studies how busy people spend their lives, and she's discovered that many of us drastically overestimate our commitments each week, while underestimating the time we have to ourselves. She offers a few practical strategies to help find more time for what matters to us, so we can “build the lives we want in the time we've got.”

This is a TEDTalks video podcast from the TED conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). It was first posted on 7 February 2017.