Episode 27: Time Management Strategies of Highly Effective People

Time Management

• Managing your time effectively is a crucial step in being healthy!
  • Balance is key to feeling good – if you’re good, you do good.  As a leader, everyone around does better too!
• Even if work is amazing, it’s still stressful. 
  • Organization leads to better time management which leads to better work-life
  • But, just because you are organized doesn’t mean you are maximizing your time. 
• Work-Life balance is a 2-legged stool. 
  • The 3^rd leg is you, or your personal time
  • We give of ourselves to ensure everyone around us is happy, but we often de-prioritize ourselves
  • Exercise, meditation, quiet time, etc. 
• Burn out is a slippery slope
  • Can be the difference between making great decisions and making decisions just so problems go away
  • Leads to selfish decisions
  • Incredibly difficult to recover from
  • Take the time out to rehab yourself!
• Anxiety is a cycle
  • It feeds itself
  • It’s almost always worse than what it seems
    • Map out your anxieties, list them and reassess
    • You may find that the swarm of negative thoughts is not a swarm, but just a few issues that your brain keeps shuffling through
    • Subscribe to a system that you can achieve and overcome easily
• Procrastination is the feeding trough of anxiety
  • Discipline now equals freedom later!!
  • Avoid instant gratification for sustainable happiness
  • The Snowball effect is real…and it’s a trap
• Sacrificing yourself to help others is admirable.  Sacrificing too much of yourself to help others is destructive.
  • Favors are great, but teaching people to fish is much more beneficial for everyone.
  • Don’t box yourself in by “ambitiously” setting others’ expectations of you
• Drowning in Emails?
  • Push them through the sieve of the Eisenhower Quadrant – where do they fall? 
    • Emails are not instant messenger – set the expectation with your recipients
    • Do now, do later, delegate or simply delete!! 
• Allow yourself time to sleep on it, edit it, and ultimately deliver a much better product than you ever would by rushing in!