In her book "Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done," Laura Vanderkam explains how one simple step can be the key to greater productivity.

"I really recommend that anyone who wants to know where the time really goes try tracking their time, because you know people always say, 'Well, I want to spend my time better,'" she tells CNBC Make It. "But if you don't know where the time really goes, how do you know if you're changing the right thing?"

In March of 2017, Vanderkam recruited more than 900 people to see exactly how people spend their day. On one day, she asked the participants to give a general description of how they think they utilize their time. On the next day, she asked them to actually track their schedule, hour by hour.

More people felt better about their time when they tracked it than they did when they didn't.
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