{"id":1226,"date":"2026-05-05T08:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/foundation\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:10:33","slug":"redefining-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/foundation\/2026\/05\/05\/redefining-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Time at the Indiana Academy<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For many people, time feels like the enemy, something they never seem to have enough of. But for time management expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lauravanderkam\/\">Laura Vanderkam<\/a>, that idea is fundamentally wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her work is built on a different belief: it\u2019s not that there isn\u2019t enough time. It\u2019s that people haven\u2019t learned how to use it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That perspective didn\u2019t appear overnight. It began years earlier at the Indiana Academy, a residential high school for gifted students on the campus of Ball State University, housed within Teachers College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After watching her older brother transfer schools in pursuit of more rigorous coursework, Laura saw the opportunity to do the same. From her very first visit, she knew she had found the right place.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #ba0c2f\">\u201cI came to visit a few classes at the Indiana Academy and immediately got sucked into a discussion of dystopian literature and epistolary novel formats,\u201d Laura said. \u201cClearly, these were my people!\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1230\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/04\/Laura-Vanderkam_01-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Laura Vanderkam returning to the Indiana Academy as the graduation speaker in 2017. \" width=\"181\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/04\/16141523\/Laura-Vanderkam_01-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/04\/16141523\/Laura-Vanderkam_01-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/04\/16141523\/Laura-Vanderkam_01-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/04\/16141523\/Laura-Vanderkam_01.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She enrolled in 1995, stepping into an environment that would fundamentally reshape how she approached both learning and time. Her first semester was difficult and far more challenging than anything she had experienced before, but that challenge became the foundation of her growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the Academy, she learned how to break large, overwhelming workloads into manageable pieces and how to persist even when success didn\u2019t come immediately. What once felt like pressure became something she could navigate and eventually something she could control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That shift stayed with her.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>A Passion for Writing<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the time she arrived at Princeton, surrounded by students from elite preparatory schools, Laura didn\u2019t feel behind. She felt prepared.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #ba0c2f\">\u201cI was happy to see I could keep up with them just fine,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That same approach carried into her early career. As an intern for USA Today\u2019s opinion section, she wasn\u2019t initially hired to write. Instead of seeing that as a limitation, she approached it the way she had learned at the Academy: start small, improve consistently, and take initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After taking time to observe the process and with encouragement from editors, she began experimenting with her own writing. Over time, those small efforts led to larger opportunities, eventually earning her a decade-long role on USA Today\u2019s Board of Contributors.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #ba0c2f\">\u201cI did some ghost writing for a while and learned the craft of writing books, and then started writing books under my own name,\u201d Laura said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rather than following a single, linear career path, Laura continued to build her work piece by piece. She explored multiple forms of writing, from books to articles, newsletters, and podcasts, choosing projects intentionally and allowing her career to evolve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her first book, <em>168 Hours<\/em>, introduced a concept that reflects this philosophy: everyone has the same number of hours in a week. The difference lies in how that time is used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a world where attention is constantly divided, that message is more relevant and more difficult than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That challenge of finding new ways to keep people engaged led to the creation of her podcast, Before Breakfast, which delivers short, practical tips designed to help listeners rethink how they use their time each day.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #ba0c2f\">\u201cWhile your coffee is brewing, you can listen to Before Breakfast and get an idea to make your day better,\u201d Laura said. \u201cPeople are making it part of their routine, and there are still millions of downloads annually.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>The Art of Time<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1228\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/04\/LauraVanderkam_05-e1776363654807-245x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Luara signing autographs of her book, &quot;I know How She Does It.&quot;\" width=\"237\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/04\/16141454\/LauraVanderkam_05-e1776363654807-245x300.jpeg 245w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/04\/16141454\/LauraVanderkam_05-e1776363654807-838x1024.jpeg 838w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/04\/16141454\/LauraVanderkam_05-e1776363654807-768x939.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/04\/16141454\/LauraVanderkam_05-e1776363654807.jpeg 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also co-hosts <em>Best of Both Worlds<\/em>, a podcast focused on balancing career, family, and personal fulfillment. At its core, the show reflects a lesson she first encountered at the Academy: a full life is not about having more time, but about using time with intention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Not only has this podcast created a strong female community from all spheres of life, but it also offers new perspectives. The content is aimed toward moms in various circumstances, from stay-at-home to working full-time.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her ideas reached an even broader audience through her TED talk, which has been viewed by millions.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #ba0c2f\">\u201cIt\u2019s been so rewarding to have people tell me they found the talk useful for taking more control of their busy lives,\u201d she said. \u201cMy goal is always to make people feel like daily life can be a little bit better.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, with the release of her newest book, <em>Big Time<\/em>, Laura takes that message one step further by challenging the idea that time is something we are constantly running out of. This book focuses on seeing time as an abundant tool to improve your quality of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through stories of people from vastly different walks of life, she encourages readers to rethink how they structure their days. It\u2019s a perspective that traces directly back to her time at the Indiana Academy, where she first learned to take control of both her time and her trajectory.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #ba0c2f\">\u201cWriting books requires the exact same mindset of breaking something big into something doable and developing the discipline to just keep going,\u201d Laura said. \u201cI learned that at the Academy and use it every day now.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Laura, the lesson is simple: time isn\u2019t something to fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s something to understand, shape, and use with intention, a skill she began developing years ago at Indiana Academy and now shares with millions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in supporting our Indiana Academy students and their journeys into furthering their education, make a gift today to the Indiana Academy at <span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.bsu.edu\/give\">BSU.give!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time at the Indiana Academy For many people, time feels like the enemy, something they never seem to have enough of. 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