19/09/2020
Spend your days in the office or doing this?
Make work, work for you.
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How do you create time in a busy week to do this?
Effective time management and priorities 👌
1- Figure out how you want to spend your time
•The reason creating boundaries is important is so you have time to do the things that matter to you, whether it’s spending time advancing your career, making a difference in your family or community or taking care of your body and soul.
2- Assess/Create a Calendar
•The harder part is assessing activities that have a positive impact, but that overrun your calendar when left unchecked
3- Create Space
•Eliminating the not-necessary tasks and activities hopefully opened up space right away. But chances are you still have quite a few things from the second category — the things you want to do, but less.
4- Fill up the open space intentionally
•Now that you’ve opened up space on your calendar, how do you want to spend that time? Continue to use the slot system, but treat these “want-to-dos” with the same discipline. You can also use a method I call “when vs. if.” For example, when you tell yourself that you’ll exercise, “if” you have time you almost certainly won’t have time. Instead, decide how many times you want to exercise — then decide when you’ll do it. Across 168 hours in a week you can find the hours you need. If not, go back to the first step and assess your calendar again. Do this until you’ve found space for all the activities that you want to have more of — strategic projects, community involvement, time with friends.
5- Review
•Everyone engaging in a Calendar makeover needs to review and re-prioritise things. You need to stick to these new routines for at least a few weeks, ideally 4. Change is hard, and uncomfortable at first, but we adapt.
