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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Confessions of a Wannabe it Girl
, the podcast helping you filterout the BS in pursuit of
becoming the next it girl.
And this podcast episode hitsreally close to home, hits me
right in the type A.
We're going to talk about howyou don't have enough structure
in your life to have free time.
Now, recently I have hitabsolute co-red.
(00:20):
What I like to call co-redmeans I am way too busy.
I've probably said yes to toomany things.
I'm on the verge of burnout andI was in a very touch and go
situation, meaning I would justdo the task that was right in
front of me that had to becompleted and then have to move
on to the next thing.
There was no structure, noorganization into what I was
(00:44):
doing.
It was pure chaos andpandemonium.
So in this episode, I'm goingto talk about how you can
structure your life to make sureyou get enough free time.
Welcome to Confessions of aWannabe it Girl.
I'm your host, marley Fregging,and I'm here to help you filter
out all the bullshit and becomethe next big girl.
(01:05):
This podcast explores thereality of what it really takes
to make it out there.
As it turns out, it is way lessInstagrammable than I thought
it was going to be.
I'm still very much a work inprogress, but there's simply
nothing else I'd rather be doingthan chasing my dreams.
So let's learn from my mistakesand work together to achieve
our dreams with more confidence,clarity and direction.
(01:27):
Let's get after it Well, andI'd have to say that the biggest
thing that I realized was thatI was having no structure in my
life.
It was very touch and go.
I was handling the things rightas they came in and that was
not productive in the long term,also led to a lot of burnout,
because I was switchingmultitasking between different
(01:49):
things.
Like I said, way too code red.
I would go from teachingPilates, planning a wedding,
doing an acting class, maybethinking about something for the
podcast, and then just tryingto live a normal young adult
life, which is not so easy.
Oh, and then an audition wouldcome in, because that's just how
the cookie crumbles.
That is way so unstructured,and the lack of structure was
(02:13):
really the root of the problem.
Having structure, knowing thatthings are going to get done in
a certain amount of time or acertain chunk of time we're
going to dive into time blockinghere really allows anxiety to
go down, knowing that you'vescheduled in time for that thing
to happen.
Now, remember, growing up, Iwas the type of girl who, on
(02:34):
Friday night, would go home andget all of her homework done so
that I could have the rest ofthe weekend to be like homework,
worry-free.
So this is a little bit of atype A method, but I am really
excited to try to help explainmy way of achieving this
structure using Google Calendaror whatever calendaring app you
(02:56):
prefer.
Or, if you're still on themiddle school planner vibe, I'm
with it.
I wish I was too.
It just stopped working for me.
So here's what you're going todo.
We're going to dive into GoogleCalendar now.
So I've talked about GoogleCalendar on the podcast before
Not a sponsor, but I'm open toit.
The best thing about GoogleCalendar is you can do a couple
(03:17):
different things.
You can have a master schedulehooked up to your, so that is
your main schedule, that is yourmain place.
Now you can go ahead and buildcalendars within your calendars.
So, for example, I have acalendar for teaching Pilates as
well as taking Pilates.
I put in there.
I have a calendar for acting,which also pertains to
(03:38):
entertainment industry stuff.
I have a calendar in there forpodcasting.
And then the two I'm going toreally talk about a lot today
are I have a podcast for justpersonal life events and what I
call strategy.
Also, the thing I love so muchabout Google Calendar is that
you can color coordinate yourcalendar to be whatever you want
to be in the aesthetic flow.
Mine's really honestly not thataesthetic, but colors really
(04:01):
help me to differentiate what Iam doing from time to time, so
like it allows me to see, oh,there's this much acting today,
oh, this is more of a podcastheavy day, whatnot, because of
the different colors I haveassigned to the said calendar
within my calendar.
All right, so let's drive intothose two little calendar things
(04:22):
I was talking about calledpersonal and strategy.
If you're watching on YouTube,I don't know why I decided the
hang loose thing was going to bemy two for this.
I guess because on some levelthey're a little different.
Okay, so let's dive intopersonal events thing.
Personal events on my Googlecalendar includes things like
doctor's appointments, dentists,whatever, oil changes, whatnot,
(04:43):
and I'm not even kidding.
Sometimes that involves showertime.
I'm blocking out my shower onthe Google calendar.
Yes, I know neurotic, butsometimes I just don't know per
se if there's going to be enoughhours in the day to make sure I
get at least six hours to sevenat least.
So I'm chunking out time,taking out that space within my
(05:07):
calendar, so I don't overcommitor think I have to include that.
In the past not something I'mcurrently doing luckily, I think
I've gotten a better hold onthis is I also used to calculate
within my calendar driving timeI live in Los Angeles traffic
ain't easy or just transitioningtime, travel or transitioning
time.
I would also block that out inmy calendar.
(05:28):
Letting yourself mentally shiftfrom thing to thing, or the
time it takes you to get fromplace A to point B, because
those are times that were alwaysunaccounted for in my life and
then I would end up stressed orlate or out of place way too
short of a time because I didn'trealize I had to leave.
So blocking in those extratimes Now I'm talking about.
(05:49):
Also, sometimes I block intimes for showers.
Now I don't do that every day.
I don't feel the need that Ineed to block out a shower every
single day on my calendar andit might not be the shower for
you.
For you it might be to eatlunch Another problem I have run
into is I like to fill up thatspace because I'm not accounting
for it.
Now I'll talk about the factthat I've recently added in a
(06:12):
lunch catch-up time to mycalendar.
It is a blocked out time in themiddle of the day that I need to
hold space for becauseinevitably I'm going to take the
time to do those things anyways.
Sometimes I forget to eat andI'm eating in a rush, but that's
a whole other podcast and awhole other problem.
But I'm blocking out that timeto make sure I'm rechecking all
of my messages.
(06:33):
I do every single message inone big swoop.
I'm talking DMs, I'm talkingTikTok, notifications, whatever.
I'm talking emails and I'mtalking text messages.
I do those all in one sprint,as well as emails.
That's the really important one.
I do emails in there.
I do that all in one big sprintdown right smack in the middle
of my day and then maybe at theend of the day when I catch
(06:56):
another breaky minute.
But I'm blocking out that timeto have this reset.
I'm holding that space in mycalendar because I found it was
kind of something I was doing,naturally, but not accounting
for it, and then I'd be like,holy fuck.
I'm so behind on my day.
I have all these other tasksblocked out in my calendar.
That's the thing too.
A lot of people just use GoogleCalendar for things like
(07:19):
meetings and appointments.
I use the scheduling part, notjust the task part, to schedule
in physically, take up theamount of time in my schedule
and be like this is the amountof time I'm going to record a
podcast.
This is the amount of time I amgoing to work on that audition,
this is the amount of time I'mgoing to send pitches.
(07:39):
I'm blocking those things out.
And here's the reason I madethe big switch from a physical
writing planner to a digital wasbecause I was fucking up.
I was sometimes forgettingappointments and or inputting
the times wrong, and a lot ofbusinesses and places do have an
option to input this intoGoogle Calendar.
(08:01):
So you know there was a littlesafety net of me checking myself
to make sure that times wereright.
I found myself fucking up thata lot.
But the other big reason I madethe switch to a digital
calendar is because you are ableto block out a chunk of time.
Let's say in this example it'sgoing to be sending acting
(08:22):
career updates.
I block out two hours on mycalendar.
Well, today didn't go quite asplanned as I thought I was going
to, so I'm just going to dragand drop the two hours and move
it to the next day, stillchunking out that same amount of
time.
Then I don't have to go anderase and rewrite the thing.
I just found that GoogleCalendar makes it a lot easier
(08:43):
to plug and drop what needs toget filled in.
All right.
So remember how I said that Ihad the life events thing kind
of digressed from there.
But I want to talk aboutstrategy.
Yes, this pinky is strategy, Iguess.
Strategy A newest calendar Ihave added to my Google Calendar
life Strategy.
(09:03):
I use this calendar to block outwhat is the undertone or theme
of the day.
I found that code red means Iam shifting between too many
things too fast and I neverreally understood what I was
doing that day.
Maybe wasn't giving my highestquality of work that day because
(09:23):
I was shifting between thingsso quickly.
And this really clicked for mewhen Taylor was on the podcast
talking about how she handlesthe craziness of this.
She's an amazing marketingspecialist for social media.
She owns Melrose Marketing.
Check her out.
She was on a previous episodeof the podcast as well.
She was talking about how onMondays she usually does just
(09:45):
emails it's more of an admin day, and Tuesdays were always her
podcast recording days and I waslike what the fuck?
That is definitely something Ishould be doing.
Maybe at some point I thoughtto do and I've just totally let
that drive to the wayside.
So now I do look at my week andI try to make sure that there's
like an admin day.
(10:06):
Usually for me now that's goingto be Monday.
I have a podcast day.
Usually that's Tuesday orThursday.
Tuesday is kind of split inhalf with acting.
For me Now that's going to beMonday.
I have a podcast day.
Usually that's Tuesday orThursday.
Tuesday is kind of split inhalf with acting.
For me, wednesday is Pilatesand acting.
See, I'm picking someundertones and themes, so it
feels like everything is gettingattended to All right.
(10:30):
So let's talk about why nothaving this structure is keeping
you from having free time.
It's because you have the fearthat you're never going to get
it done.
Now, from somebody who lives inthe world of anxiety more than
I would like to admit, I wouldsay that 90% of my work anxiety
literally comes from the fear ofsaying this phrase.
I don't have enough time to getthis done.
Well, I hate to say it, but youprobably do.
(10:53):
It's probably because you'remanaging yourself not as well as
you could be Now.
I know I'm extreme and there'speople who are more extreme and
there's people who are way lessextreme.
Going back to, you have to chunkout your time to make sure
you're getting in free time.
Some days we're going to goback to talking about that lunch
period, that lunch thing.
(11:14):
I don't really have that manyemails to catch up with.
I don't know.
Today was a slower day.
I'm going to just eat lunch andplay on my phone or do whatever
I want to do, or go for a walkor get a coffee.
You need to schedule in timethat is kind of shiftable.
Schedule in time that is kindof shiftable, like it could be
used or it could be not, andit's not going to offset you If
(11:41):
you don't catch up in youremails.
At this time I found that Iwasn't leaving in free time for
auditions to come in.
I don't get an audition everysingle day, or you know a brand
deal per se or whatever it maybe for you.
I don't get one of those everysingle day.
However, I was like, why am Inot leaving in time in my days
in case those things happen?
And it did happen to me thisweek.
(12:01):
I got an audition and I waslike, oh, thank goodness I've
blocked in this time alreadybecause I know that everything
else is going to get time and Ido have time to do this audition
.
I think blocking out those timesfor the things we want in life,
as well as free time, ismanifesting for ourselves,
sending it out to the universeand also reminding yourself to
do it that you have blocked outtime for that thing.
(12:24):
So for me it's auditions andsometimes for me it's free time.
Blocking out that time Now, ifit gets used or not, who's to
know, and sometimes just becauseI'm neurotic and crazy, if it
didn't get used that day, justto be like I didn't do it or it
didn't happen, I delete it fromthe calendar.
(12:44):
But again, I think holdingspace for those things we want
in life brand deals to comethrough, networking calls,
holding space within those inyour week, as well as free time
is going to manifest it for youin the long run.
Something else I've been doingto make sure that I have enough
time to get everything done andalso giving myself a backup of
(13:07):
having a free time is what Ineed at this moment.
I can do it because I have abackup time scheduled in.
I'm talking about triple ordouble scheduling things, for
instance.
We'll use this podcast as theexample, because this is true
life for me.
I have scheduled in time to dothis podcast at least five times
(13:27):
over the past week and a halfand I say podcast recording
today, this time to this time,and then I wrote in the next day
or a day following, sayingpodcast backup recording, and
then I put one more for safetypodcast recording on this date.
Now I know neurotic, but it isgiving me so much peace of mind
(13:48):
to know that I have so manytries, so many potential to get
this done, and one of those andtwo of those might've been on
the weekend, and that's okay.
I'm giving myself multipletimes to make it happen, because
there are plenty of times thatI come home and I'm doing 8
million other things and I don'tfeel like sitting down and
doing that thing that Ischeduled out, and that's all
(14:09):
right.
I have scheduled for it tohappen at another time.
So I'm blocking out, I'mcreating a backup situation for
whatever it needs to be donetask and you know what you get
to use or get to do.
If you don't use that time, youcan do whatever you want, or
you can make it free time.
(14:30):
Again, like I said, the reasonwe're not having enough free
time in our life is becausethere's a certain level of fuck
it.
I'm just going and moving,grooving, throwing pasta at the
wall and seeing what sticksenergy, and then when we start
to really succinctly think aboutwhat days and what times and
(14:50):
lay it all out in a place we canphysically see it, it becomes a
lot less throwing pasta at thewall and a lot more focus.
It also really cuts down on theamount of multitasking and
switching back and forth tooquickly, and I find that that
really increases my quality ofwork.
All right, to wrap it up, I'mgoing to bring it home by saying
(15:13):
the points of you need to finda method for yourself to create
some structure in your life.
Now, for me, that's GoogleCalendar.
For you, if that's a list orpost-its notes organized in
different colors, it's your ownmethod.
It's your own way to do it.
I just wanted to share some tipsand tricks about how I'm
managing myself in a Code Redsituation to structure it, to
(15:38):
create more time.
I'm talking about those backuptimes, color coordination,
blocking out too much time toget what I think is realistic
for a task and, of course,leaving true time for things
like showering, life, eating and, of course, even scheduling in
relaxation time.
Guys, thank you so much forlistening to Confessions of a
(16:01):
Wannabe it Girl.
We'll see you next Tuesday.
Thank you so much for listeningto Confessions of a Wannabe it
Girl.
Don't forget to rate andsubscribe to the show.
As always, we'll see you nextTuesday.
Welcome back to Confessions of a Wannabe it Girl
, the podcast helping you filterout the BS in pursuit of
becoming the next it girl.
And this podcast episode hitsreally close to home, hits me
right in the type A.
We're going to talk about howyou don't have enough structure
in your life to have free time.
Now, recently I have hitabsolute co-red.
(00:20):
What I like to call co-redmeans I am way too busy.
I've probably said yes to toomany things.
I'm on the verge of burnout andI was in a very touch and go
situation, meaning I would justdo the task that was right in
front of me that had to becompleted and then have to move
on to the next thing.
There was no structure, noorganization into what I was
(00:44):
doing.
It was pure chaos andpandemonium.
So in this episode, I'm goingto talk about how you can
structure your life to make sureyou get enough free time.
Welcome to Confessions of aWannabe it Girl.
I'm your host, marley Fregging,and I'm here to help you filter
out all the bullshit and becomethe next big girl.
(01:05):
This podcast explores thereality of what it really takes
to make it out there.
As it turns out, it is way lessInstagrammable than I thought
it was going to be.
I'm still very much a work inprogress, but there's simply
nothing else I'd rather be doingthan chasing my dreams.
So let's learn from my mistakesand work together to achieve
our dreams with more confidence,clarity and direction.
(01:27):
Let's get after it Well, andI'd have to say that the biggest
thing that I realized was thatI was having no structure in my
life.
It was very touch and go.
I was handling the things rightas they came in and that was
not productive in the long term,also led to a lot of burnout,
because I was switchingmultitasking between different
(01:49):
things.
Like I said, way too code red.
I would go from teachingPilates, planning a wedding,
doing an acting class, maybethinking about something for the
podcast, and then just tryingto live a normal young adult
life, which is not so easy.
Oh, and then an audition wouldcome in, because that's just how
the cookie crumbles.
That is way so unstructured,and the lack of structure was
(02:13):
really the root of the problem.
Having structure, knowing thatthings are going to get done in
a certain amount of time or acertain chunk of time we're
going to dive into time blockinghere really allows anxiety to
go down, knowing that you'vescheduled in time for that thing
to happen.
Now, remember, growing up, Iwas the type of girl who, on
(02:34):
Friday night, would go home andget all of her homework done so
that I could have the rest ofthe weekend to be like homework,
worry-free.
So this is a little bit of atype A method, but I am really
excited to try to help explainmy way of achieving this
structure using Google Calendaror whatever calendaring app you
(02:56):
prefer.
Or, if you're still on themiddle school planner vibe, I'm
with it.
I wish I was too.
It just stopped working for me.
So here's what you're going todo.
We're going to dive into GoogleCalendar now.
So I've talked about GoogleCalendar on the podcast before
Not a sponsor, but I'm open toit.
The best thing about GoogleCalendar is you can do a couple
(03:17):
different things.
You can have a master schedulehooked up to your, so that is
your main schedule, that is yourmain place.
Now you can go ahead and buildcalendars within your calendars.
So, for example, I have acalendar for teaching Pilates as
well as taking Pilates.
I put in there.
I have a calendar for acting,which also pertains to
(03:38):
entertainment industry stuff.
I have a calendar in there forpodcasting.
And then the two I'm going toreally talk about a lot today
are I have a podcast for justpersonal life events and what I
call strategy.
Also, the thing I love so muchabout Google Calendar is that
you can color coordinate yourcalendar to be whatever you want
to be in the aesthetic flow.
Mine's really honestly not thataesthetic, but colors really
(04:01):
help me to differentiate what Iam doing from time to time, so
like it allows me to see, oh,there's this much acting today,
oh, this is more of a podcastheavy day, whatnot, because of
the different colors I haveassigned to the said calendar
within my calendar.
All right, so let's drive intothose two little calendar things
(04:22):
I was talking about calledpersonal and strategy.
If you're watching on YouTube,I don't know why I decided the
hang loose thing was going to bemy two for this.
I guess because on some levelthey're a little different.
Okay, so let's dive intopersonal events thing.
Personal events on my Googlecalendar includes things like
doctor's appointments, dentists,whatever, oil changes, whatnot,
(04:43):
and I'm not even kidding.
Sometimes that involves showertime.
I'm blocking out my shower onthe Google calendar.
Yes, I know neurotic, butsometimes I just don't know per
se if there's going to be enoughhours in the day to make sure I
get at least six hours to sevenat least.
So I'm chunking out time,taking out that space within my
(05:07):
calendar, so I don't overcommitor think I have to include that.
In the past not something I'mcurrently doing luckily, I think
I've gotten a better hold onthis is I also used to calculate
within my calendar driving timeI live in Los Angeles traffic
ain't easy or just transitioningtime, travel or transitioning
time.
I would also block that out inmy calendar.
(05:28):
Letting yourself mentally shiftfrom thing to thing, or the
time it takes you to get fromplace A to point B, because
those are times that were alwaysunaccounted for in my life and
then I would end up stressed orlate or out of place way too
short of a time because I didn'trealize I had to leave.
So blocking in those extratimes Now I'm talking about.
(05:49):
Also, sometimes I block intimes for showers.
Now I don't do that every day.
I don't feel the need that Ineed to block out a shower every
single day on my calendar andit might not be the shower for
you.
For you it might be to eatlunch Another problem I have run
into is I like to fill up thatspace because I'm not accounting
for it.
Now I'll talk about the factthat I've recently added in a
(06:12):
lunch catch-up time to mycalendar.
It is a blocked out time in themiddle of the day that I need to
hold space for becauseinevitably I'm going to take the
time to do those things anyways.
Sometimes I forget to eat andI'm eating in a rush, but that's
a whole other podcast and awhole other problem.
But I'm blocking out that timeto make sure I'm rechecking all
of my messages.
(06:33):
I do every single message inone big swoop.
I'm talking DMs, I'm talkingTikTok, notifications, whatever.
I'm talking emails and I'mtalking text messages.
I do those all in one sprint,as well as emails.
That's the really important one.
I do emails in there.
I do that all in one big sprintdown right smack in the middle
of my day and then maybe at theend of the day when I catch
(06:56):
another breaky minute.
But I'm blocking out that timeto have this reset.
I'm holding that space in mycalendar because I found it was
kind of something I was doing,naturally, but not accounting
for it, and then I'd be like,holy fuck.
I'm so behind on my day.
I have all these other tasksblocked out in my calendar.
That's the thing too.
A lot of people just use GoogleCalendar for things like
(07:19):
meetings and appointments.
I use the scheduling part, notjust the task part, to schedule
in physically, take up theamount of time in my schedule
and be like this is the amountof time I'm going to record a
podcast.
This is the amount of time I amgoing to work on that audition,
this is the amount of time I'mgoing to send pitches.
(07:39):
I'm blocking those things out.
And here's the reason I madethe big switch from a physical
writing planner to a digital wasbecause I was fucking up.
I was sometimes forgettingappointments and or inputting
the times wrong, and a lot ofbusinesses and places do have an
option to input this intoGoogle Calendar.
(08:01):
So you know there was a littlesafety net of me checking myself
to make sure that times wereright.
I found myself fucking up thata lot.
But the other big reason I madethe switch to a digital
calendar is because you are ableto block out a chunk of time.
Let's say in this example it'sgoing to be sending acting
(08:22):
career updates.
I block out two hours on mycalendar.
Well, today didn't go quite asplanned as I thought I was going
to, so I'm just going to dragand drop the two hours and move
it to the next day, stillchunking out that same amount of
time.
Then I don't have to go anderase and rewrite the thing.
I just found that GoogleCalendar makes it a lot easier
(08:43):
to plug and drop what needs toget filled in.
All right.
So remember how I said that Ihad the life events thing kind
of digressed from there.
But I want to talk aboutstrategy.
Yes, this pinky is strategy, Iguess.
Strategy A newest calendar Ihave added to my Google Calendar
life Strategy.
(09:03):
I use this calendar to block outwhat is the undertone or theme
of the day.
I found that code red means Iam shifting between too many
things too fast and I neverreally understood what I was
doing that day.
Maybe wasn't giving my highestquality of work that day because
(09:23):
I was shifting between thingsso quickly.
And this really clicked for mewhen Taylor was on the podcast
talking about how she handlesthe craziness of this.
She's an amazing marketingspecialist for social media.
She owns Melrose Marketing.
Check her out.
She was on a previous episodeof the podcast as well.
She was talking about how onMondays she usually does just
(09:45):
emails it's more of an admin day, and Tuesdays were always her
podcast recording days and I waslike what the fuck?
That is definitely something Ishould be doing.
Maybe at some point I thoughtto do and I've just totally let
that drive to the wayside.
So now I do look at my week andI try to make sure that there's
like an admin day.
(10:06):
Usually for me now that's goingto be Monday.
I have a podcast day.
Usually that's Tuesday orThursday.
Tuesday is kind of split inhalf with acting.
For me Now that's going to beMonday.
I have a podcast day.
Usually that's Tuesday orThursday.
Tuesday is kind of split inhalf with acting.
For me, wednesday is Pilatesand acting.
See, I'm picking someundertones and themes, so it
feels like everything is gettingattended to All right.
(10:30):
So let's talk about why nothaving this structure is keeping
you from having free time.
It's because you have the fearthat you're never going to get
it done.
Now, from somebody who lives inthe world of anxiety more than
I would like to admit, I wouldsay that 90% of my work anxiety
literally comes from the fear ofsaying this phrase.
I don't have enough time to getthis done.
Well, I hate to say it, but youprobably do.
(10:53):
It's probably because you'remanaging yourself not as well as
you could be Now.
I know I'm extreme and there'speople who are more extreme and
there's people who are way lessextreme.
Going back to, you have to chunkout your time to make sure
you're getting in free time.
Some days we're going to goback to talking about that lunch
period, that lunch thing.
(11:14):
I don't really have that manyemails to catch up with.
I don't know.
Today was a slower day.
I'm going to just eat lunch andplay on my phone or do whatever
I want to do, or go for a walkor get a coffee.
You need to schedule in timethat is kind of shiftable.
Schedule in time that is kindof shiftable, like it could be
used or it could be not, andit's not going to offset you If
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you don't catch up in youremails.
At this time I found that Iwasn't leaving in free time for
auditions to come in.
I don't get an audition everysingle day, or you know a brand
deal per se or whatever it maybe for you.
I don't get one of those everysingle day.
However, I was like, why am Inot leaving in time in my days
in case those things happen?
And it did happen to me thisweek.
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I got an audition and I waslike, oh, thank goodness I've
blocked in this time alreadybecause I know that everything
else is going to get time and Ido have time to do this audition
.
I think blocking out those timesfor the things we want in life,
as well as free time, ismanifesting for ourselves,
sending it out to the universeand also reminding yourself to
do it that you have blocked outtime for that thing.
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So for me it's auditions andsometimes for me it's free time.
Blocking out that time Now, ifit gets used or not, who's to
know, and sometimes just becauseI'm neurotic and crazy, if it
didn't get used that day, justto be like I didn't do it or it
didn't happen, I delete it fromthe calendar.
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But again, I think holdingspace for those things we want
in life brand deals to comethrough, networking calls,
holding space within those inyour week, as well as free time
is going to manifest it for youin the long run.
Something else I've been doingto make sure that I have enough
time to get everything done andalso giving myself a backup of
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having a free time is what Ineed at this moment.
I can do it because I have abackup time scheduled in.
I'm talking about triple ordouble scheduling things, for
instance.
We'll use this podcast as theexample, because this is true
life for me.
I have scheduled in time to dothis podcast at least five times
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over the past week and a halfand I say podcast recording
today, this time to this time,and then I wrote in the next day
or a day following, sayingpodcast backup recording, and
then I put one more for safetypodcast recording on this date.
Now I know neurotic, but it isgiving me so much peace of mind
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to know that I have so manytries, so many potential to get
this done, and one of those andtwo of those might've been on
the weekend, and that's okay.
I'm giving myself multipletimes to make it happen, because
there are plenty of times thatI come home and I'm doing 8
million other things and I don'tfeel like sitting down and
doing that thing that Ischeduled out, and that's all
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right.
I have scheduled for it tohappen at another time.
So I'm blocking out, I'mcreating a backup situation for
whatever it needs to be donetask and you know what you get
to use or get to do.
If you don't use that time, youcan do whatever you want, or
you can make it free time.
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Again, like I said, the reasonwe're not having enough free
time in our life is becausethere's a certain level of fuck
it.
I'm just going and moving,grooving, throwing pasta at the
wall and seeing what sticksenergy, and then when we start
to really succinctly think aboutwhat days and what times and
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lay it all out in a place we canphysically see it, it becomes a
lot less throwing pasta at thewall and a lot more focus.
It also really cuts down on theamount of multitasking and
switching back and forth tooquickly, and I find that that
really increases my quality ofwork.
All right, to wrap it up, I'mgoing to bring it home by saying
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the points of you need to finda method for yourself to create
some structure in your life.
Now, for me, that's GoogleCalendar.
For you, if that's a list orpost-its notes organized in
different colors, it's your ownmethod.
It's your own way to do it.
I just wanted to share some tipsand tricks about how I'm
managing myself in a Code Redsituation to structure it, to
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create more time.
I'm talking about those backuptimes, color coordination,
blocking out too much time toget what I think is realistic
for a task and, of course,leaving true time for things
like showering, life, eating and, of course, even scheduling in
relaxation time.
Guys, thank you so much forlistening to Confessions of a
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Wannabe it Girl.
We'll see you next Tuesday.
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