May 13, 2025 • 17 mins
Productivity doesn't have to come with burnout. As entrepreneurs, we've all experienced the frustration of having a perfect calendar system but still feeling like we never make meaningful progress. The missing piece? Understanding how our nervous system and creative process actually work within the time we've scheduled.
I'm sharing my game-changing approach to workflow management that has transformed both my productivity and stress levels. Instead of scattering similar tasks throughout the week, I organize my days thematically: Mondays for setting intentions and content creation, Tuesdays and Thursdays for calls and client work, Wednesdays for CFO work in my husband's business, and Fridays for completing projects started earlier in the week. This system provides the substantial uninterrupted time our brains need to reach creative flow state—something impossible to achieve when constantly switching between different types of tasks.
For creative entrepreneurs, coaches, and intuitive business owners, this approach is particularly powerful. When our calendars are fragmented with meetings sprinkled throughout each day, we're left with small pockets of time that don't allow for substantive work on important projects. By grouping similar activities and protecting large chunks of focus time, we can honor how our creative process actually works. This method isn't one-size-fits-all—I share how to adapt it based on your unique brain wiring and nervous system needs. Some people thrive with hyper-focus while others need more variety, and both approaches can work within this framework.
What's one change you could make to your workflow this week that would honor how your brain actually works? Try implementing a theme day approach and experience the difference complete workflow cycles can make to your productivity and peace of mind.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Annie Veblen-McCarty and I'm gonna
teach you how to be effortlesslyproductive.
I've been an entrepreneur forover 20 years and I got sick and
tired of experts preaching whatbusiness and life should look
like and what I should be doingas a leader and to turn a profit
, only to find myself wastingtime, burned out, feeling
(00:22):
inauthentic and still not makingany money.
On this show, we are ditchingthe shoulds.
I'm giving you permission to dobusiness differently.
As a certified master coach, Ibelieve that everything you need
to have success and build thelife and business of your dreams
is already living on the inside.
(00:43):
I'm going to empower you tolean into what you do best, help
you see your path forwardclearly and give you the
strategy and action steps alongthe way to become effortlessly
productive.
Let's dive in.
Welcome to today's episode ofEffortlessly Productive.
Today, we are going to bediving into something people ask
(01:06):
me about all the time, which ishow to manage your time in
order to be more productive.
Now, I am definitely not a timemanagement expert.
This is not something that Iteach a ton.
However, I have a process.
I guess you could say.
The reason I wanted to do anepisode on this is because this
(01:28):
totally fits into what I teachabout systems and I will say
everybody's brain worksdifferently.
Everybody's body feels thingsdifferently.
What works for one person mightnot work for the other, and so
this is giving you, first of all, permission to take bits and
pieces of what works for otherpeople and develop something
(01:51):
that works for you.
It has taken me years and yearsand years of experimenting and,
honestly, as I go throughdifferent seasons of life and
different seasons of business,different things work for me at
different times.
So I just wanted to have alittle discussion about this
today and share what has beenworking really well for me
(02:12):
recently, and there is somescience behind this and some
nervous system stuff behind this.
So I'm really excited to diveinto chat with you.
We're not going to dive intolike time blocking or like any
of the other techniques.
Personally, I do use timeblocking, but that's not so much
what we're focusing on today.
We are going to be focusing onhow we organize those blocks of
(02:37):
time that we do have to get ourwork done, how we organize our
workflow in order to be moreproductive within the time that
we have, because there are tonsof people out there teaching how
to time block, what planner,what calendar to use, like all
of that stuff, and that, to me,is important.
(02:57):
But it's also once you havethat set up we can have the most
time blocked, beautiful,perfectly organized schedule and
system and things planned outto the nth degree.
But unless we know what to dowithin that time in order to be
the most productive that we canbe, it does not really matter
how much of that other planningwe're doing right Makes sense.
(03:21):
It also is not really takinginto effect of how our body
feels, how our nervous systemfeels within the time structure
that we have created.
So if we have this system thatwe have created with our time
and that is creating a lot ofstress, a lot of burnout, a lot
of feelings of like panic, ofjust feeling very scattered, lot
(03:45):
of feelings of like panic, ofjust feeling very scattered,
that can totally dysregulate ournervous system, send us into
fight or flight mode or evenfreeze mode, even worse, which
is kind of headed into thatburnout or definitely straight
up in the burnout, and that isnot going to serve us.
So what we want to start tothink about is how we feel
(04:05):
within the time that we have,how our body feels, how our body
is reacting, how much chaos dowe feel is going on?
Are we jumping from one thingto another, to another, to
another?
If we are doing that, for somepeople that's where they thrive,
right, and this is why this isnot like a cookie cutter
approach, like everybody needsto do it this way.
(04:28):
We can kind of take theapproach of we have this time
that we're going to work andevery single day, within that
time that we have, we're doingthe same tasks.
Maybe you're creating contentfor social media, maybe you are
reaching out to your currentclients or new potential clients
, maybe you are working onfinding people to book calls
(04:49):
with, maybe you are promoting aprogram that you have coming up.
So there's like all thesethings that we're doing.
Within that time.
We might have our clientsessions, we might have calls
that we're doing for a programthat we're in the middle of
teaching.
So we have all these things andfor some people, having shorter
blocks of time and jumping fromthing to thing to thing and
(05:09):
doing those things every singleday is where their brain thrives
.
I know my son has ADHD.
He either will hyper-f focus,where maybe a larger chunk of
time with one activity would bemore ideal for him or his brain
will jump and jump and jump andhe has a hard time staying
focused on any one thing for toolong.
(05:31):
So days he is feeling that wayand I'm definitely not like an
ADHD expert.
I am not like this is how youhave to do it If you've been
diagnosed with ADHD.
I'm just sharing like apersonal anecdote of what I see
with him works really well.
So there are certain days forhim that helping him manage his
school workflow I will set it upwhere I'm like okay, he is
(05:55):
hyper-focused on math.
We are just going to blowthrough as many of his math
workbook pages as we possiblycan because his brain is in it.
He's in a place right now wherehe can just get a ton done.
He could literally go for oneor two hours if he wanted to.
So with that it's looking moreday-to-day Like how am I feeling
today?
(06:15):
Am I feeling like I can reallyfocus in?
Am I feeling like I'm going tobe a little bit more scattered
and jump from thing to thing?
He also has other days wherethat attention span is just not
there.
He's having a really hard timegetting into that hyper focus
and so setting it up so thatthere are shorter tasks, so like
he's going to spend 10 minutesdoing one thing, 10 minutes
(06:37):
doing the next, 10 minutes doingthe next, get up, take a wiggle
break, run around, go playsports outside, like whatever it
is, so he's going from thing tothing to thing very quickly.
So you may find that you havedays, even once you have a
schedule and a plan and astructure set up.
Within this time that you have,you may find that you may need
(07:00):
to take some adjustments here.
However, I'm going to share alittle bit about what has worked
really well for me, and thereason I want to dive into this
is because, for people who aremore creative, people who lean
into their intuition in theirwork a lot so maybe more
spiritual entrepreneurs forpeople who are coaches, people
(07:22):
who are creating programs, Ioften find and I have found for
myself that jumping from thingto thing to thing is not giving
us a large enough time block toreally make any meaningful
headway.
And what I often see is I willhave calls whether it's calls
that I am teaching or calls thatlike if I'm a part of a
(07:44):
mastermind or part of a programI will have calls scattered all
throughout my week, here andthere.
I'm allowing clients to justbook their one-on-one
appointments whenever, whateverday, whatever time slot works
for them, and what ends uphappening is I will maybe have
like an hour in the morning andthen I have a call, and then I
(08:05):
have 30 minutes and I haveanother call, and then I have an
hour and a half and I haveanother call.
Or I have like a little bit oftime and then call, call, call,
call, call and all of a sudden,after four or five calls, my
energy is done and I can do busywork, I can sort my emails, but
if there was anything that Iwanted to create or a program
(08:26):
that I'm working on or a launchI'm working on, my brain is just
done and I'm not going to makea ton of meaningful headway.
So what I have found for me andagain the reason I'm sharing
this is I found this for a lotof other coaches and creatives
and spiritual entrepreneurs aswell Each day kind of has a
theme and I'm going to sharewith you my themes.
(08:47):
I want you to take this andmake it your own, because maybe
for you, whatever is happeningin your life and in your world
on Monday.
It does not make sense to dowhat I do on my Monday, but
maybe we can just shuffle thedays around.
So I look at Monday like my setmyself up for success for the
(09:07):
weekday.
So I start my day off doingkind of a little bit of a review
right, a little bit ofreflection what happened last
week, what went well, what do Iwant to do differently this week
I get some of the like nittygritty things out of the way.
Like for my husband's business,I do payroll that has to go in
every Monday.
(09:28):
So I have a couple little shorttasks that I just they're very
important and I get them out ofthe way right right away.
If I've not planned my week outand looked at my schedule which
I usually have the week beforebut sometimes I have not I will
do that and then I use the restof my Monday to think about what
is it that I want to create forthe week?
(09:49):
What is my messaging that I amputting out there in my content
on social media, in emailmarketing?
What is an identity shift thatI want to help my clients have
this week?
What is it that I want to focuson what part of helping people
am I going to focus on and howcan I build that into my content
(10:11):
, into everything that I do thisweek?
I also do a lot of contentcreation on Monday and get
things set up for the rest ofthe week.
So that piece of it is kind ofout of my brain and I don't have
to go back.
I think about also the bigprojects, those needle mover
activities that I want to workon and focus on that week.
(10:34):
If you go back to it was one ofmy very first episodes.
I talked about needle moversand how important those have
been in my business and whatthey are I will focus on.
Okay, here are going to be theneedle movers for the week.
Here's what I want to create.
If I am launching something,maybe I need to build a page
where people can register andsign up for whatever program it
(10:55):
is that I'm launching.
I start to break it down intopieces.
So Monday is my like set myselfup for success.
I do a lot of my contentcreation.
I do a lot of planning of whatmy focus is going to be on the
week and I do a lot of justlooking at what are the things
that are going to move theneedle forward in my business,
(11:16):
that I can either knock out onMonday and get started or what
for each day do I need to getdone or want to get done.
Then usually Tuesdays andThursdays are my days where I am
taking calls.
I am either on calls, teachingcalls, doing one-on-ones with
clients.
(11:36):
If I have to book anappointment, like a doctor's
appointment or something for mykids, I am making sure I slot
that in on Tuesdays andThursdays because those are my
days that are going to be alittle bit less like huge work
chunks of like let me have somecreative time, and it's going to
be more taking care of all ofthese calls If I can.
(11:58):
If it looks like I might nothave a lot of appointments or
calls that week, I will actuallyblock off a huge chunk, and
this usually for me ends uphappening on Thursday, where I
will be like OK, nobody hasbooked calls Thursday morning or
Thursday afternoon.
I am actually going to blockthat whole chunk out to focus on
(12:20):
some of these projects, thatthing that I'm starting on
Monday.
I'm going to make sure that Ihave a good like three to five
hour chunk one of those otherdays of the week, either Tuesday
or Thursday, so that I can makesome more meaningful headway
For me and for so many peoplethat I've worked with.
Once you get your head into thatcreative process, it tends to
(12:43):
flow.
So we want to make sure thatwe're setting ourselves up for
success and giving ourselves theopportunity to do a deep dive,
to let those creative downloadshappen, to be able to get really
into something and not havethat creative flow or that
system building flow, whateverit is that you're focusing on,
(13:04):
not have that broken up.
I personally, when I am makinga program, I do like to teach it
live and then take thoserecordings.
But I know other people wholike to record modules ahead of
time and then that becomes theprogram.
So think about, like, if youare going to teach all of those
modules and record all of thosemodules, it might not go very
(13:26):
well if you're recording one andgetting interrupted and
recording another and gettinginterrupted.
Sometimes, when we can get ourthought process focused in on it
, things flow and flow and flow.
Wednesday I tend to go into myhusband's business and do all of
the CFO work for that business,so for me I actually have a day
of the week.
It does sometimes shift arounda little bit and this is why
(13:47):
we're doing our planning onMonday for me, why that's
important.
But I usually have a day of theweek where I am 100% focused on
that CFO work so that that isdone.
So then we come to Friday andfor me done so, then we come to
(14:08):
Friday, and for me, friday.
I use as my wrap up the weekday so I have a standing call
first thing Friday morning.
Once that is over, I willsometimes book some calls Friday
if my availability was reallylow for the beginning part of
the week.
However, I try to keep my entirerest of my Friday totally open
because whatever I started onMonday, as long again as this
was like a manageable thing tobe able to finish in a week,
(14:31):
whatever piece I decided tostart on Monday, I want to have
that wrapped up on Friday.
So I make sure that I have areally big chunk of time.
Again, it is completely emptythat I can take all those loose
ends from the week, whateverproject I dove into, and I can
(14:52):
actually wrap things up, clickthe done button, click it
finished, because then I know,going into my weekend, all of
those kind of leaks, all of thatbandwidth, that where our brain
just keeps processing on things.
All of that is wrapped up.
My brain is not going to begoing crazy over the weekend
(15:13):
while I'm trying to do thingswith the kids or my husband or
my family or anything else, andit can just be focused on Friday
, wrapped up on Friday and done,and that way, when I roll into
a new week, I can start myMonday saying okay, now, what am
I going to create this week?
Where is my focus going to bethis week?
(15:34):
And the rest of those days, Igive permission for it to be a
little bit more.
I'm going to say chaotic, butit's more just that.
That's when calls are happening, that's when one-on-ones are
happening, that's when I'mteaching, that's when all these
other things are going on.
And then I'm kind of slottinglittle things again, like email
and messages and all of that funstuff like here and there
(15:58):
around all of it.
For me, this way of organizingmy time has actually helped me
be so much more productive.
So take this concept.
Like I said, this may or maynot work exactly for you, and
that is okay.
Give yourself permission totake this Maybe of what I said
(16:23):
you're like that is not for me,that doesn't serve me.
But maybe there was one littlepiece of that that you can kind
of grab onto and you're likethis is going to be a gem that
is going to change everything.
Take that one thing and runwith it.
Or if you were like I just feellike it's always chaos all over
the place, I have calls all overthe place Like I literally I
(16:45):
hear this all the time Iliterally feel like I never get
anything done.
The reason we feel like weliterally never get anything
done, even when we do havechunks of time set aside for our
business, is because what weare doing in that time, the way
that time is organized, theactivities we're doing that time
, are not setting us up to feellike we can ever start and
(17:07):
finish anything.
It is that broken up thingwhere our brain literally can't
ever get into that creative flow, and so when we can start to
chunk things a little bit biggerand have certain days that are
set aside for certain things,for a lot of us that can be a
huge game changer.
So I hope this helps.
If you took one little pieceout of today, or maybe the whole
(17:31):
thing, I would love to hear inthe comments how you are going
to shift the way that you lookat your workflow and look at
your productivity and how thisis going to help serve you in
your business.
Thank you for tuning in todayand I can't wait to catch you on
the next episode ofEffortlessly Productive.
Have a beautiful rest of yourday.
Hey, this is Annie Veblen-McCarty and I'm gonna
teach you how to be effortlesslyproductive.
I've been an entrepreneur forover 20 years and I got sick and
tired of experts preaching whatbusiness and life should look
like and what I should be doingas a leader and to turn a profit
, only to find myself wastingtime, burned out, feeling
(00:22):
inauthentic and still not makingany money.
On this show, we are ditchingthe shoulds.
I'm giving you permission to dobusiness differently.
As a certified master coach, Ibelieve that everything you need
to have success and build thelife and business of your dreams
is already living on the inside.
(00:43):
I'm going to empower you tolean into what you do best, help
you see your path forwardclearly and give you the
strategy and action steps alongthe way to become effortlessly
productive.
Let's dive in.
Welcome to today's episode ofEffortlessly Productive.
Today, we are going to bediving into something people ask
(01:06):
me about all the time, which ishow to manage your time in
order to be more productive.
Now, I am definitely not a timemanagement expert.
This is not something that Iteach a ton.
However, I have a process.
I guess you could say.
The reason I wanted to do anepisode on this is because this
(01:28):
totally fits into what I teachabout systems and I will say
everybody's brain worksdifferently.
Everybody's body feels thingsdifferently.
What works for one person mightnot work for the other, and so
this is giving you, first of all, permission to take bits and
pieces of what works for otherpeople and develop something
(01:51):
that works for you.
It has taken me years and yearsand years of experimenting and,
honestly, as I go throughdifferent seasons of life and
different seasons of business,different things work for me at
different times.
So I just wanted to have alittle discussion about this
today and share what has beenworking really well for me
(02:12):
recently, and there is somescience behind this and some
nervous system stuff behind this.
So I'm really excited to diveinto chat with you.
We're not going to dive intolike time blocking or like any
of the other techniques.
Personally, I do use timeblocking, but that's not so much
what we're focusing on today.
We are going to be focusing onhow we organize those blocks of
(02:37):
time that we do have to get ourwork done, how we organize our
workflow in order to be moreproductive within the time that
we have, because there are tonsof people out there teaching how
to time block, what planner,what calendar to use, like all
of that stuff, and that, to me,is important.
(02:57):
But it's also once you havethat set up we can have the most
time blocked, beautiful,perfectly organized schedule and
system and things planned outto the nth degree.
But unless we know what to dowithin that time in order to be
the most productive that we canbe, it does not really matter
how much of that other planningwe're doing right Makes sense.
(03:21):
It also is not really takinginto effect of how our body
feels, how our nervous systemfeels within the time structure
that we have created.
So if we have this system thatwe have created with our time
and that is creating a lot ofstress, a lot of burnout, a lot
of feelings of like panic, ofjust feeling very scattered, lot
(03:45):
of feelings of like panic, ofjust feeling very scattered,
that can totally dysregulate ournervous system, send us into
fight or flight mode or evenfreeze mode, even worse, which
is kind of headed into thatburnout or definitely straight
up in the burnout, and that isnot going to serve us.
So what we want to start tothink about is how we feel
(04:05):
within the time that we have,how our body feels, how our body
is reacting, how much chaos dowe feel is going on?
Are we jumping from one thingto another, to another, to
another?
If we are doing that, for somepeople that's where they thrive,
right, and this is why this isnot like a cookie cutter
approach, like everybody needsto do it this way.
(04:28):
We can kind of take theapproach of we have this time
that we're going to work andevery single day, within that
time that we have, we're doingthe same tasks.
Maybe you're creating contentfor social media, maybe you are
reaching out to your currentclients or new potential clients
, maybe you are working onfinding people to book calls
(04:49):
with, maybe you are promoting aprogram that you have coming up.
So there's like all thesethings that we're doing.
Within that time.
We might have our clientsessions, we might have calls
that we're doing for a programthat we're in the middle of
teaching.
So we have all these things andfor some people, having shorter
blocks of time and jumping fromthing to thing to thing and
(05:09):
doing those things every singleday is where their brain thrives
.
I know my son has ADHD.
He either will hyper-f focus,where maybe a larger chunk of
time with one activity would bemore ideal for him or his brain
will jump and jump and jump andhe has a hard time staying
focused on any one thing for toolong.
(05:31):
So days he is feeling that wayand I'm definitely not like an
ADHD expert.
I am not like this is how youhave to do it If you've been
diagnosed with ADHD.
I'm just sharing like apersonal anecdote of what I see
with him works really well.
So there are certain days forhim that helping him manage his
school workflow I will set it upwhere I'm like okay, he is
(05:55):
hyper-focused on math.
We are just going to blowthrough as many of his math
workbook pages as we possiblycan because his brain is in it.
He's in a place right now wherehe can just get a ton done.
He could literally go for oneor two hours if he wanted to.
So with that it's looking moreday-to-day Like how am I feeling
today?
(06:15):
Am I feeling like I can reallyfocus in?
Am I feeling like I'm going tobe a little bit more scattered
and jump from thing to thing?
He also has other days wherethat attention span is just not
there.
He's having a really hard timegetting into that hyper focus
and so setting it up so thatthere are shorter tasks, so like
he's going to spend 10 minutesdoing one thing, 10 minutes
(06:37):
doing the next, 10 minutes doingthe next, get up, take a wiggle
break, run around, go playsports outside, like whatever it
is, so he's going from thing tothing to thing very quickly.
So you may find that you havedays, even once you have a
schedule and a plan and astructure set up.
Within this time that you have,you may find that you may need
(07:00):
to take some adjustments here.
However, I'm going to share alittle bit about what has worked
really well for me, and thereason I want to dive into this
is because, for people who aremore creative, people who lean
into their intuition in theirwork a lot so maybe more
spiritual entrepreneurs forpeople who are coaches, people
(07:22):
who are creating programs, Ioften find and I have found for
myself that jumping from thingto thing to thing is not giving
us a large enough time block toreally make any meaningful
headway.
And what I often see is I willhave calls whether it's calls
that I am teaching or calls thatlike if I'm a part of a
(07:44):
mastermind or part of a programI will have calls scattered all
throughout my week, here andthere.
I'm allowing clients to justbook their one-on-one
appointments whenever, whateverday, whatever time slot works
for them, and what ends uphappening is I will maybe have
like an hour in the morning andthen I have a call, and then I
(08:05):
have 30 minutes and I haveanother call, and then I have an
hour and a half and I haveanother call.
Or I have like a little bit oftime and then call, call, call,
call, call and all of a sudden,after four or five calls, my
energy is done and I can do busywork, I can sort my emails, but
if there was anything that Iwanted to create or a program
(08:26):
that I'm working on or a launchI'm working on, my brain is just
done and I'm not going to makea ton of meaningful headway.
So what I have found for me andagain the reason I'm sharing
this is I found this for a lotof other coaches and creatives
and spiritual entrepreneurs aswell Each day kind of has a
theme and I'm going to sharewith you my themes.
(08:47):
I want you to take this andmake it your own, because maybe
for you, whatever is happeningin your life and in your world
on Monday.
It does not make sense to dowhat I do on my Monday, but
maybe we can just shuffle thedays around.
So I look at Monday like my setmyself up for success for the
(09:07):
weekday.
So I start my day off doingkind of a little bit of a review
right, a little bit ofreflection what happened last
week, what went well, what do Iwant to do differently this week
I get some of the like nittygritty things out of the way.
Like for my husband's business,I do payroll that has to go in
every Monday.
(09:28):
So I have a couple little shorttasks that I just they're very
important and I get them out ofthe way right right away.
If I've not planned my week outand looked at my schedule which
I usually have the week beforebut sometimes I have not I will
do that and then I use the restof my Monday to think about what
is it that I want to create forthe week?
(09:49):
What is my messaging that I amputting out there in my content
on social media, in emailmarketing?
What is an identity shift thatI want to help my clients have
this week?
What is it that I want to focuson what part of helping people
am I going to focus on and howcan I build that into my content
(10:11):
, into everything that I do thisweek?
I also do a lot of contentcreation on Monday and get
things set up for the rest ofthe week.
So that piece of it is kind ofout of my brain and I don't have
to go back.
I think about also the bigprojects, those needle mover
activities that I want to workon and focus on that week.
(10:34):
If you go back to it was one ofmy very first episodes.
I talked about needle moversand how important those have
been in my business and whatthey are I will focus on.
Okay, here are going to be theneedle movers for the week.
Here's what I want to create.
If I am launching something,maybe I need to build a page
where people can register andsign up for whatever program it
(10:55):
is that I'm launching.
I start to break it down intopieces.
So Monday is my like set myselfup for success.
I do a lot of my contentcreation.
I do a lot of planning of whatmy focus is going to be on the
week and I do a lot of justlooking at what are the things
that are going to move theneedle forward in my business,
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that I can either knock out onMonday and get started or what
for each day do I need to getdone or want to get done.
Then usually Tuesdays andThursdays are my days where I am
taking calls.
I am either on calls, teachingcalls, doing one-on-ones with
clients.
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If I have to book anappointment, like a doctor's
appointment or something for mykids, I am making sure I slot
that in on Tuesdays andThursdays because those are my
days that are going to be alittle bit less like huge work
chunks of like let me have somecreative time, and it's going to
be more taking care of all ofthese calls If I can.
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If it looks like I might nothave a lot of appointments or
calls that week, I will actuallyblock off a huge chunk, and
this usually for me ends uphappening on Thursday, where I
will be like OK, nobody hasbooked calls Thursday morning or
Thursday afternoon.
I am actually going to blockthat whole chunk out to focus on
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some of these projects, thatthing that I'm starting on
Monday.
I'm going to make sure that Ihave a good like three to five
hour chunk one of those otherdays of the week, either Tuesday
or Thursday, so that I can makesome more meaningful headway
For me and for so many peoplethat I've worked with.
Once you get your head into thatcreative process, it tends to
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flow.
So we want to make sure thatwe're setting ourselves up for
success and giving ourselves theopportunity to do a deep dive,
to let those creative downloadshappen, to be able to get really
into something and not havethat creative flow or that
system building flow, whateverit is that you're focusing on,
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not have that broken up.
I personally, when I am makinga program, I do like to teach it
live and then take thoserecordings.
But I know other people wholike to record modules ahead of
time and then that becomes theprogram.
So think about, like, if youare going to teach all of those
modules and record all of thosemodules, it might not go very
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well if you're recording one andgetting interrupted and
recording another and gettinginterrupted.
Sometimes, when we can get ourthought process focused in on it
, things flow and flow and flow.
Wednesday I tend to go into myhusband's business and do all of
the CFO work for that business,so for me I actually have a day
of the week.
It does sometimes shift arounda little bit and this is why
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we're doing our planning onMonday for me, why that's
important.
But I usually have a day of theweek where I am 100% focused on
that CFO work so that that isdone.
So then we come to Friday andfor me done so, then we come to
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Friday, and for me, friday.
I use as my wrap up the weekday so I have a standing call
first thing Friday morning.
Once that is over, I willsometimes book some calls Friday
if my availability was reallylow for the beginning part of
the week.
However, I try to keep my entirerest of my Friday totally open
because whatever I started onMonday, as long again as this
was like a manageable thing tobe able to finish in a week,
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whatever piece I decided tostart on Monday, I want to have
that wrapped up on Friday.
So I make sure that I have areally big chunk of time.
Again, it is completely emptythat I can take all those loose
ends from the week, whateverproject I dove into, and I can
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actually wrap things up, clickthe done button, click it
finished, because then I know,going into my weekend, all of
those kind of leaks, all of thatbandwidth, that where our brain
just keeps processing on things.
All of that is wrapped up.
My brain is not going to begoing crazy over the weekend
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while I'm trying to do thingswith the kids or my husband or
my family or anything else, andit can just be focused on Friday
, wrapped up on Friday and done,and that way, when I roll into
a new week, I can start myMonday saying okay, now, what am
I going to create this week?
Where is my focus going to bethis week?
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And the rest of those days, Igive permission for it to be a
little bit more.
I'm going to say chaotic, butit's more just that.
That's when calls are happening, that's when one-on-ones are
happening, that's when I'mteaching, that's when all these
other things are going on.
And then I'm kind of slottinglittle things again, like email
and messages and all of that funstuff like here and there
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around all of it.
For me, this way of organizingmy time has actually helped me
be so much more productive.
So take this concept.
Like I said, this may or maynot work exactly for you, and
that is okay.
Give yourself permission totake this Maybe of what I said
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you're like that is not for me,that doesn't serve me.
But maybe there was one littlepiece of that that you can kind
of grab onto and you're likethis is going to be a gem that
is going to change everything.
Take that one thing and runwith it.
Or if you were like I just feellike it's always chaos all over
the place, I have calls all overthe place Like I literally I
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hear this all the time Iliterally feel like I never get
anything done.
The reason we feel like weliterally never get anything
done, even when we do havechunks of time set aside for our
business, is because what weare doing in that time, the way
that time is organized, theactivities we're doing that time
, are not setting us up to feellike we can ever start and
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finish anything.
It is that broken up thingwhere our brain literally can't
ever get into that creative flow, and so when we can start to
chunk things a little bit biggerand have certain days that are
set aside for certain things,for a lot of us that can be a
huge game changer.
So I hope this helps.
If you took one little pieceout of today, or maybe the whole
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thing, I would love to hear inthe comments how you are going
to shift the way that you lookat your workflow and look at
your productivity and how thisis going to help serve you in
your business.
Thank you for tuning in todayand I can't wait to catch you on
the next episode ofEffortlessly Productive.
Have a beautiful rest of yourday.
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