Happier Hour

How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

By: Cassie Holmes

Narrated by: Cassie Holmes

Learn how to reframe your time around life’s happiest moments to build days that aren’t just full but fulfilling with this “joyful guide” (Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author) that is the antidote to overscheduling.

Our most precious resource isn’t money. It’s time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling “time poor.” Since we can’t add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives as richer?

Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Professor Cassie Holmes demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Happier Hour provides empirically based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to:

-Optimally spend your hours and feel confident in those choices
-Sidestep distractions
-Create and savor moments of joy
-Design your schedule with purpose
-Look back on your years without regrets

Enlivened by Holmes’s upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research, Happier Hour “is filled with loads and loads of practical, evidence-based advice for how to live better by investing in what really matters. It’s the kind of book that can change your life for the better” (Laurie Santos, Yale professor and host of The Happiness Lab podcast).

Critic reviews

"Author/narrator Cassie Holmes uses her skills as an entertaining professor to perform her new audiobook on how to make your life happier and more fulfilling. Based on Holmes’s courses at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, this audiobook is designed to be experienced within a busy day. With practical advice and real-life anecdotes, the ideas from this audiobook are fairly easy to apply. Holmes’s narration of her own work is direct and smart, showcasing her bright style and aptitude for breaking down the concepts of happiness into a format that is fun and easy to understand. With the author’s sharp wit and emotional range, as well as the fascinating information she provides, this audiobook is educational and a joy to experience."

vary well done

i recommend after listening to also get the book great book. the story telling and data are inspiring

Evidence based recipe for a happy, meaningful life no matter how busy you are.

Loved it! This is exactly what I needed- a structured system to help me prioritize, plan, and SCHEDULE the things that are PROVEN to increase happiness and life satisfaction.

Clear, backed by solid research, powerful personal stories, and very actionable with step-by-step instructions.

Life Changing

This is beautifully written and read perfectly by the author. Captivating and inspiring! I found myself sitting in the driveway just to listen to a few more minutes at the end of the work day. I highly recommend this to everyone!

Slow start, excellent ending

If the beginning feels slow to you, keep reading! The research and suggested application of the findings was excellent

2-5 hours if discretionary time

Loved the research and conclusions. Loved the purpose, connection and fun insights with discretionary time