September 17, 2024 • 30 mins
The Peace & Prosperity Podcast is a bi-weekly conversation with Jason Phillips, LCSW, licensed therapist and confidence expert in Raleigh, NC, discussing all things related to self-love and self-confidence, and how we can improve ourselves personally and professionally.
Can better time management really lead to a less stressful life? Tune in as Dr. RJ and Jason Phillips uncover the secrets to mastering your minutes and make every second count. In this episode, we break down the true cost of poor time management, sharing personal stories of multitasking disasters and the stress of double-booking. Learn how distractions and lack of focus can derail your day and elevate your anxiety, and discover actionable strategies to take control of your schedule and live a more balanced life.
We explore the often-overlooked impact of social media on your productivity and motivation, emphasizing the need for self-awareness in your daily routine. By incorporating discipline, automation, and delegation, you can elevate your efficiency and focus on what truly matters. We also dive into two transformative books, "Who Not How" and "Free to Focus," that promise to revolutionize how you manage your time. Get ready to integrate these powerful tips into your life, helping you achieve your goals with less stress and more satisfaction.
Discover the Eisenhower Matrix, an invaluable tool for prioritizing tasks and avoiding time snatchers, allowing you to stay in your "zone of genius." Hear how Michael Jordan's focused excellence compares to LeBron James' versatility and why sticking to what you're best at can dramatically improve your productivity. Lastly, we address high functioning anxiety, offering practical advice and encouragement to help you cope. Don't miss this episode filled with insights that will help you work smarter, stay sane, and maintain balance in both your professional and personal life. Plus, remember to join our podcast community—like, share, subscribe, and let us know what topics you want us to cover next. Engage with us, send a DM, or leave a review. Let's continue this journey towards peace and prosperity together.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome, welcome, welcome everybody.
If you don't already know, I'mDr RAJ, licensed clinical
psychologist, and I help busyexecutives optimize their mental
health so that they caneliminate burnout, reduce stress
, anxiety all that good stuff soyou can actually live and enjoy
the life that you worked sohard for.
(00:25):
So hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Hey, and I'm Jason Phillips, licensed therapist,
confidence expert, and I helpprofessionals improve their
self-confidence and eliminateself-doubt.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yes, that is super, super important.
I work with so many people whoare absolutely capable and they
have the imposter syndrome andall these things going on, and
I'm like you know, like you'repopping, why you don't know that
?
Why am I the only one who knowsthat?
So I love that.
That's one of your areas ofexpertise.
Today, we will be talking abouthow to master your minutes,
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work smart and stay sane.
So, listen, I don't like mytime to be wasted, like if you
want to get on my bad side and Idon't really have a whole lot
of bad sides but if you want toget on my bad side, it's like
waste my time, like it's likethe craziest thing.
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, you know what Someone told me this last week?
We were talking about money andlike what's important to them,
and he said, no, money's notthat important, like I'll make
money, that's fine.
But he said my time and myhealth are two things that I
really value.
And I thought about thatbecause, one, if you're not
healthy, you can have all themoney but it doesn't matter.
(01:41):
And then time is something thatyou cannot get back.
So I'm in agreement with that,with you on that one.
Time is big.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'm big on my time.
I see these quotes all the timethat say you have the same 24
hours in a day as Beyonce, butthe truth is Beyonce has more
hours in a day because shedelegates her time.
I'm sure she's not doing allthese things that some busy
executives are trying to do ontheir own, so you got to keep
that in mind.
Like there is a way to buy backyour time and have more time.
But even when we do have moretime, sometimes we waste it.
(02:21):
So that's what we're going tobe talking about today.
So so, Jason, what just in yourexperience, what are some ways
that you have wasted time?
I'm getting all in yourbusiness today.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, it's all good.
Oh, there's so many One.
I've wasted time trying to dotoo many things, like try to be
two places at once.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I didn't realize it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Like I remember when I was like in college I was
doing this.
So it was way back then, likesomebody called me we were on
our way to a barbecue andsomebody else called me and my
friend while we were on our wayand I said, yeah, we'll be there
, just give us, like you know,an hour or whatever.
And she was like Jason, she waslike you just double booked.
(03:10):
And I was like what are youtalking about?
I do that all the time.
And she was like we're about togo to this barbecue and get
together, so how are we going tobe here?
Oh, snaps, like when she saidit it was a big eye-opener.
Yep, but that it wastes timebecause you can't be present and
you're like you're scramblingthat, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I love that example when I don't focus, I waste a
lot of time.
I can be easily distracted,believe it or not.
I'm super disciplined, so that'swhy I'm not easily distracted.
But if I'm not on my game, Ican be easily distracted.
The other day I got an Amazonpackage.
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And what was that Amazonpackage?
It was something I needed.
Anyhow, it was something Ineeded.
I think it's like a somethingto measure the moisture in my
plants, or whatever.
I ordered a new one and I wentto the front door, grabbed the
package and then started talkingto my mom about something else
and my son about something else,put the package down and had no
(04:07):
idea where I put it.
Let me tell you I look for thatpackage for 40 minutes, four and
zero 40 minutes of my timewasted because if I would have
just stayed focused and did whatI needed to do and then came
back down and talk and all thatstuff, then I would have saved
40 minutes.
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So when I'm distracted andtrying to multitask, I waste a
lot of time.
That's why I am anti multitaskagainst multitasking because it
feels like we're we're savingtime, but most of the time we're
not.
Our brains can't do all ofthose things at once.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, that's the worst when you misplay something
and you know it's there.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, it happened to me not too long ago.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I'm like I just had it in my hand.
I'm looking around, let meretrace my steps.
Let me retrace my steps andstill couldn't find it.
It took forever.
So time wasters.
Some of the costs of wastingtime poor time management.
One is being disorganized, andwhen you're disorganized, you're
scattered, you can haveincreased anxiety, you won't get
as much done, you'll feelineffective and as a result of
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that, then your to-do list justgets longer.
So what happens when we don'tmaster our minutes?
Then we're wasting time and weend up really not getting
anything done at all.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, I was going to add to that too.
Like our mood shifts when youwaste time, because now you're
thinking, okay, I got to hurryup and then, depending on where
you're going, whenever you getto where you're going, whenever
you get to where you're going,you're not the same person, you
don't have the same great energy, and people are like what's
wrong and you're thinking likehow long do I have to be here?
So it just throws so manythings off.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, just just by mismanagement of time, and so we
have, like, the poor timemanagement and we also have time
wasters, social media and thisis ironic because we're on
social media right, but socialmedia can be a huge time waster.
(06:18):
As much as I love it, Ichallenge everyone out there to
really look at how much time youspend on social media.
I don't mean working, I don'tmean like really connecting with
people, I mean just mindlesslyscrolling, scrolling, scrolling,
scrolling.
Like be honest with yourselfand do a time tracker, so write
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down every single time youscroll and for how long you
scroll, and do that for two orthree days and see what you come
up with.
I've done it before, by the way, and as a result, I started
putting in blockers so my socialmedia does not pop up.
I can't access it for severalhours during the day, unless I'm
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working, and if I'm working,I'll go to my MacBook and do it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I like that and I will also say you know, notice
how you feel after you engage inall the scrolling, because
sometimes you know if I'mscrolling and maybe I'm looking
at something, I'm like, oh, Iwish I had that, I wish I was
there.
I don't get done scrollingfeeling energized all of the
time.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Oh, that's, a good point yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So kind of pay attention to like after you know
, after you're looking atwhatever, how are you feeling?
Are you feeling more motivatedor are you now feeling like you
need a nap?
Are you feeling like you'vebeen comparing yourself, Kind of
checking in, so that way youknow, like with real evidence in
time, is this helpful or not?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And a lot of times, after all that scrolling, you
feel exhausted and aggravatedabout people you don't even know
.
So it happens.
It happens to the best of us.
And so we're talking about thisbecause time is our most
precious commodity and Jason andI want to make sure that we're
sharing real life strategies andtips with you all so that you
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won't waste your time and thatyou can master your minutes and
be more productive and get tolive in the life that you've
worked so hard to live.
A lot of times when I talk toexecutives or leaders or high
performers, they have a lot ofguilt about wasting time and
something that I share like,don't feel bad about it, just
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get disciplined.
And so often high performersfeel like they have to be
motivated and do thingsnaturally and I'm like no,
there's a lot of things I do I'mnot motivated to do, right.
And so I just want to telleveryone out there don't rely on
motivation, you want to rely ondiscipline, automations and
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routine, right?
So you master your minutes byrelying on discipline,
automation and routine, becauseyour feelings are going to go up
and down.
They're like waves in the seathey come and they go.
I'm a July cancer.
I have 89 feelings per day.
They're all over the place,they range from whatever to
whatever, and if I relied on myfeelings to manage my time and
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master my minutes, I wouldn'tget anything done.
Nothing.
So discipline, automation.
And what was the other thing Isaid?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Discipline automation and it was not delegation.
I was going to add delegation.
Okay, go ahead and talk to usabout delegation.
Yeah.
So discipline, automation,delegation, because we often or
high achievers, can feel like Ihave to do everything because I
can and Dr RJ, you say this allthe time just because you can
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does not mean you should.
So what I find that comes up ispeople say, well, yes, I mow my
grass, or yes, I do all of myhouse chores, and no, I don't
have any help because I can doit.
But then when we look at thecost of that, how much time do
you take away from your family,your personal needs, your own
(10:08):
health, because you're trying todo everything?
So let's add delegation in thattoo.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Okay, so tell me the three again real quick.
I'm going to post it for us.
What did we?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
say so.
We got automation, discipline,discipline and delegation.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Look at us, we're a good team.
All right, I'm gonna put it uphere.
You keep talking.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, we got to delegate and we have to delegate
and be OK with it, becausethings like what you're doing
now, if we don't delegate someof the tasks I love your
assistant, they're greatreaching out and vice versa,
because if we try to doeverything, we will overwhelm
ourselves.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
And the book.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I'll give y'all a book to read too.
That really helped drive thisall the way home.
For me was who, not how?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Oh yes, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, so I'm sure you've read that one and he
breaks it down as such an easybut powerful way of how you
should not be doing everything,but find out who can do it for
you so you can do the thingsthat you want to do at the
highest level possible.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Absolutely.
There are a lot of great, greatbooks on on time management.
My favorite is Free to Focus byMichael Hyatt.
I swear by Free to Focus and itis definitely a great book, so
check it out for sure.
I listened to it on audio andit was so good I had to actually
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buy the physical copy so Icould go and take notes and
highlight and that sort of thing.
So who, not how, and Free toFocus are two books that we both
read, we both enjoy.
We recommend to help you withtime management and mastering
your minutes and again, it's notabout motivation, it's about
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automation, discipline anddelegation.
So some of the we're going togive you all some strategies on
exactly what you can do.
Some of these strategies willwork for you.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Some of them won't, but try them all and find what
works into your flow of life.
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All right, let's get back tothe episode.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
So I often talk about the art of balance.
So I've created a frameworkcalled the art of balance.
If you would like like thesummary of the art of balance
and you don't have to take agazillion notes right now as I
go over it briefly just text artof balance to 833-451-4258 for
your free art of balance guide.
So the art of Balance isauthenticity, relentless rest
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and time consciousness.
So today, obviously, we're justgoing to talk about time
consciousness, because we'respeaking on mastering your
minutes.
Part of time consciousness isjust being aware of what you're
doing.
Often we do things on autopilotand not in a good way, right?
I don't mean like automation,but I mean autopilot where we're
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not present or mindful of whatwe're doing.
So it's kind of like you'redriving home and thinking about
something else, not payingattention.
Pass your exit.
Actually.
Let me give you a real example.
I'll give you a real example.
I was on the highway the otherday and I live in Atlanta, right
?
So y'all know like sometimes, ifyou miss a certain exit or get
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off in the wrong place, it'sover over for you.
So I've lived here for 20 yearsor 22 years, so I should know
to pay attention.
I was on the phone with mysister and we were talking about
something that was real goodand I was like girl, I missed my
exit and I lost 12 minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I was going to say at least 15 minutes If it would
have been traffic, that wouldhave been worse.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
There was no traffic 12 minutes, just by not paying
attention and being mindful.
Now, of course I was payingattention, driving right, but I
was on autopilot, like I've beendriving since I was 14.
And so I'm a pretty good driverand I was paying attention to
the road, but really paying moreattention to my sister and we
would just kiki in or whatever.
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I'm like girl.
I missed the whole exit.
So that's an example of when wetalk about time consciousness,
just being aware of time andspace.
Be aware of what you're doing.
Be mindful of what you're doingin the moment.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, so I'll jump in .
I love that one.
Definitely don't want to missyour exit in Atlanta.
So mine is doing one thing at atime.
What I find is that this islike from a bigger picture.
When you're trying to do a lotof things, you're not.
You'll be flustered, want togive up, but the reason is
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because you're doing a lot ofthings at the same time.
If you can just lock in on oneparticular area or issue, get
that one completed and then moveon to the next one.
It's kind of like when somebodywants to revamp their life and
they're like okay, I want tolose weight, I want to go back
to school, I want to start afamily, start my career.
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It's like wait, wait, wait,wait, that's a lot, that's a lot
.
So like, what is the priority?
And then have a list for that.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Oh, I love that you said that.
Often when I talk to my clients, I ask them to focus on done
what's next, like, do that, getit done now, what's next?
I actually, when I was speakingto a client earlier today, I
asked her to write on herwhiteboard done what's next.
She's a creative, she's reallytalented, she has all these
ideas and I'm like girl, you'renot about to do all this in one
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month, right, let's look at thequarter and done what's next.
And I know she's going to lovethat phrase.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I love that phrase.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, and it helps you stay focused.
I have to tell myself that allthe time, but I love that you
talked about like prioritizing,and so another strategy or skill
or tactic, something to thinkabout is distinguish,
distinguishing what's urgentversus what's important.
Right, we think and that's thethat's part of the eisenhower
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matrix that I'm going to getinto but what's urgent versus
important?
So I want to talk about that alittle bit.
There are a lot of differenttype it.
Let me multitask.
This is why I don't multitask.
There are a lot of differentthings that are a lot of
different concepts or frameworksthat discuss urgent versus
important.
When, when I work with withleaders, sometimes I'll talk
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about if there is a fire, right,is it really a fire like a red
or is it kind of like a yellow,like what is?
this Because often leaders feeloverwhelmed.
They're putting out everybody'sfires, they're jumping to
everyone's rescue and then theycan't get their own work done,
and so then they end up doingwork at home and getting burned
out like that.
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You want to find your ownstrategy on how to determine
urgent versus important.
Everything ain't urgent, Likefind a maximum of three things
that are urgent.
Maximum Everything else andwe'll talk about this a little
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bit down the line but everythingelse can be put into a
different category.
So distinguish, do one thing ata time and then determine
what's urgent versus important.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
That's part of there for a hot second too, Dr RJ.
Yeah, Urgent versus important.
The book that came to mind Ithink it's Benjamin Howe.
He brings that up in Be yourFuture Self.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Right.
So that's why I was like holdon, what book is that?
The same author, who, not how?
Who says what is urgent islikely not always important, and
then what is important is notalways urgent.
So I have to say, be yourfuture self.
Who, not how?
Urgent versus important Y'all,we're giving y'all a lot of gems
right now, so make sure youaction these things.
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Okay, that was it.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
And no, that's perfect.
That's another one of myfavorites.
I have a whole list of books,but I love Be your Future Self
now, and I've actually written aletter to myself.
I do it year to year and when Imake decisions, I make them
based upon is this good for myfuture self?
Would the future Dr RJ want youto do this?
Would the Dr RJ who wants to behealthy and in shape and able
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to run around the yard with herson?
Would she choose?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Chick-fil-A for breakfast instead of a bowl of
oatmeal.
That was my decision thismorning.
Did you go with the oatmeal orChick-fil-A?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Oatmeal.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Okay, I had oatmeal yesterday.
I had Chick-fil-A Oatmeal.
Okay, I had oatmeal yesterday.
I had Chick-fil-A today.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I'm going to get some Chick-fil-A tomorrow, though,
because my future self wouldwant me to have some balance,
some balance Right, right.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So I was going to go to the next one, which is have a
simple routine.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
This will help you with time management when you
think about bedtime routines,your nightly routines.
We have it, but we have itsimple and I think that helps.
So you know, okay, I'm brushingmy teeth, I'm flossing, I'm
doing a mouthwash, I'm doing myhair, I'm doing, and it's like
you have an order for it.
And what helps is now you canstay disciplined.
You don't have to delegatebecause you're doing it yourself
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, but you can keep up with it,and the more you do it, the more
you say you know what I can dothese things and sometimes we
feel overwhelmed about we feellike you know.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I got so much to do.
I don't feel like getting ready, but keep it simple.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
sweet We've all heard that before and the more simple
.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
You can make it.
I heard keep it simple, stupid.
Oh, that's what.
You heard it in a nice way, Idon't know, I remixed it.
Yeah, well, I went to publicschool.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So that's what we used to.
The teachers used to tell us inthe simple, stupid, yep, simple
, stupid, simple, sweet, make itwork y'all.
Like when we get on here.
You have streamlined it withstream yard right, so it's
simple and we're aliveeverywhere, so it's easy for us
to keep it going.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah yeah, simple routine.
There's genius in simplicity.
Often make things complex, andwhen it's unnecessary, there's
genius in simplicity and that'show you definitely get things
done.
So I love the strategy ofhaving a simple routine and it
also helps or goes along withthe automation piece.
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And so, as we're talking abouta simple routine, some of you
may be saying well, my life iscomplicated, I got a whole lot
to do, I have a whole to-do listof things.
I'm a mom, I'm a wife, I'm aCEO, I'm running a business, I
volunteer for my church and mysorority and the kids' school
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and all the things right, andthen for the men, same thing.
If you're saying that, then itmay be difficult to think of a
simple routine.
So I have a strategy for you aswell.
It's called the EisenhowerMatrix.
Now, a lot of you may have heardof the Eisenhower Matrix.
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It's one of my favorites and asI was creating the Art of
Balance framework, theEisenhower Matrix really popped
out.
I did a lot of reading, a lotof research and studying about
it and it really does fit how Ido life and how a lot of
executives, top performers,leaders can benefit from doing
life in this way.
So let me give it to you thequick way.
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So the Eisenhower matrix andyou can Google it.
There is an app, there's allthe things you can do with it,
but we're just gonna keep itsimple today for the sake of
time.
So you have four categories.
There is your do, delegate,schedule or delete.
So if you have a long list, mostpeople say I have a laundry
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list of things to do.
My to-do list is a mile long.
When I talk about timeconsciousness, I talk about a
to-don't list, but that'sanother section For the
Eisenhower matrix.
Have your long to-do list andgo through and put it in
categories.
So what must you do?
What must you do first, Thenwhat can you delegate, Then what
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can you schedule for later andwhat can you delete.
And so, as you were talkingabout making things simple, a
lot of things we can deletebecause we're making our task,
our days, way too complex andit's just not necessary.
Just like you don't got to doall that stuff too much, Just
delete it so yeah, I love it.
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It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
It coincides with what I was going to give for our
last one, or my last one wasaudit your time.
But you can leave it up therebecause, essentially, as you
audit your time, that's canleave it up there because,
essentially, as you audit yourtime, that's what you will look
at what do I need to do, what doI delegate, what do I schedule
and what needs to be deleted.
So that's so funny.
We were thinking along the samelines.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yep and that.
So let me tell y'all we didn'tprep for this Like.
I was like hey, can't wait tosee you, and he's like I'll see
you later.
That's not what happened.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
So we did not prep for this.
It's just we do this every day.
We've been doing it for years.
We're masters at our individualcrafts and so I love that when
we talk about these topics, wehave our own way of doing it,
but it's still along the sameline, which reaches more of our
audience in that way.
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So, time audit, go ahead andkeep talking about that.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, you want to audit your time.
You really want to take a lookat what are, or where are, your
time snatchers.
What are the things that you'redoing where you, if you take a
step back and you look at it, Idon't need to do this anymore.
I can ask someone else to do it.
Maybe it does not need to bedone.
It's not serving the samepurpose, but you may find
yourself continuously runninginto the same problems.
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So by auditing your time, youcan really look at where is your
time going, what's keeping youstuck, what's holding you up.
And you can't just do that byjust thinking about it.
Sometimes you literally have towalk through your day and pay
attention, be mindful of.
Oh wait, I'm spending this muchtime on social media or I'm
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spending this much time onhousework.
Maybe I should really look intoasking for help or hiring some
help, because I found thatthat's the biggest one with high
achievers.
We do things that we knowinnately.
I can ask somebody else to doit, and they can maybe even do
it better than you, so you canstay in your zone of genius.
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It keeps everything you know,everybody, happy.
I often think about.
I'm going to put a basketballanalogy on here.
You think about Michael Jordanand you think about LeBron James
.
Often they look at who's thebetter person.
Now LeBron can play fivepositions, but Jordan was so
great at his one position Likehe's hands down the greatest
(26:29):
shooting guard, and I think whenyou think about auditing your
time and trying to do everything, lebron is still dope.
Don't get me wrong, but Jordanjust locked in and solidified
himself as the greatest handsdown because he knew this was
his zone of genius.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I love that.
So just because you can doeverything doesn't mean that you
should, and you can setyourself apart by locking in on
one thing, which is why, Jason,I don't do laundry Like that's
not my zone of genius.
I know how to do it.
I know how to get my son'sbaseball pants white.
(27:06):
I don't do all that Likesomebody else can do it and they
can do it better, and I don'tlike to.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
And it frees you have to do stuff that you do want to
do.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, I don't go to the grocery store.
Food with the grocery store.
A lot of people are like, oh, Ilove the farmer's market,
whatever.
Well, that's different, becausethat's self-care.
If you love the farmer's market, that doesn't count as a chore,
that's like self-care.
I don't really feel the grocerystore, but I can go in the
garden section of Home Depot andstay for two hours with no
issue.
I actually just did that.
(27:37):
It's about auditing your timeto understand what's valuable to
you.
That's why it's so importantthat we talk about this topic of
how to master your minutes sothat you can work smart and stay
sane.
You want to really maximizeyour quality of life by being
focused, being present andreally thinking about what
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matters to you.
Don't compare yourself to thenext person.
Don't be like Dr RJ don't dolaundry, so I'm not either.
If you love folding yourclothes, right.
If you love folding your clothes, then do that.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
So I think we've done so.
Know, we've had so manyconversations, but I feel like
this is one of the most simple,stupid, impactful ones that
people will have a lot of gemsfor a minute to like implement.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Absolutely.
We dropped a lot of things foryou all.
Share it, watch it over andover, take some notes.
I mean, I think that's it.
We kept it simple.
We have some tangible, easy toimplement tasks for all of you,
so I implore you to choose oneand do that consistently.
(28:47):
It's done.
What's next?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, love.
It, all right y'all, thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
We'll see y'all soon, bye.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Thank you all for listening to another episode of
the Peace and Prosperity Podcast.
Again, if you are feeling like,hey, I'm experiencing high
functioning anxiety, feelinglike, hey, I'm experiencing high
functioning anxiety, don't beatyourself up about it.
It is okay.
We all experience anxiety fromtime to time and I gave you a
couple of things that you can doon your own, but don't hesitate
(29:22):
to reach out to a professionalto better manage what you're
going through.
Okay, and lastly, make sure, ifyou have not like share,
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All right, y'all.
Be blessed, peace.
Welcome, welcome, welcome everybody.
If you don't already know, I'mDr RAJ, licensed clinical
psychologist, and I help busyexecutives optimize their mental
health so that they caneliminate burnout, reduce stress
, anxiety all that good stuff soyou can actually live and enjoy
the life that you worked sohard for.
(00:25):
So hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Hey, and I'm Jason Phillips, licensed therapist,
confidence expert, and I helpprofessionals improve their
self-confidence and eliminateself-doubt.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yes, that is super, super important.
I work with so many people whoare absolutely capable and they
have the imposter syndrome andall these things going on, and
I'm like you know, like you'repopping, why you don't know that
?
Why am I the only one who knowsthat?
So I love that.
That's one of your areas ofexpertise.
Today, we will be talking abouthow to master your minutes,
(01:02):
work smart and stay sane.
So, listen, I don't like mytime to be wasted, like if you
want to get on my bad side and Idon't really have a whole lot
of bad sides but if you want toget on my bad side, it's like
waste my time, like it's likethe craziest thing.
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, you know what Someone told me this last week?
We were talking about money andlike what's important to them,
and he said, no, money's notthat important, like I'll make
money, that's fine.
But he said my time and myhealth are two things that I
really value.
And I thought about thatbecause, one, if you're not
healthy, you can have all themoney but it doesn't matter.
(01:41):
And then time is something thatyou cannot get back.
So I'm in agreement with that,with you on that one.
Time is big.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'm big on my time.
I see these quotes all the timethat say you have the same 24
hours in a day as Beyonce, butthe truth is Beyonce has more
hours in a day because shedelegates her time.
I'm sure she's not doing allthese things that some busy
executives are trying to do ontheir own, so you got to keep
that in mind.
Like there is a way to buy backyour time and have more time.
But even when we do have moretime, sometimes we waste it.
(02:21):
So that's what we're going tobe talking about today.
So so, Jason, what just in yourexperience, what are some ways
that you have wasted time?
I'm getting all in yourbusiness today.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, it's all good.
Oh, there's so many One.
I've wasted time trying to dotoo many things, like try to be
two places at once.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I didn't realize it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Like I remember when I was like in college I was
doing this.
So it was way back then, likesomebody called me we were on
our way to a barbecue andsomebody else called me and my
friend while we were on our wayand I said, yeah, we'll be there
, just give us, like you know,an hour or whatever.
And she was like Jason, she waslike you just double booked.
(03:10):
And I was like what are youtalking about?
I do that all the time.
And she was like we're about togo to this barbecue and get
together, so how are we going tobe here?
Oh, snaps, like when she saidit it was a big eye-opener.
Yep, but that it wastes timebecause you can't be present and
you're like you're scramblingthat, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I love that example when I don't focus, I waste a
lot of time.
I can be easily distracted,believe it or not.
I'm super disciplined, so that'swhy I'm not easily distracted.
But if I'm not on my game, Ican be easily distracted.
The other day I got an Amazonpackage.
(03:45):
And what was that Amazonpackage?
It was something I needed.
Anyhow, it was something Ineeded.
I think it's like a somethingto measure the moisture in my
plants, or whatever.
I ordered a new one and I wentto the front door, grabbed the
package and then started talkingto my mom about something else
and my son about something else,put the package down and had no
(04:07):
idea where I put it.
Let me tell you I look for thatpackage for 40 minutes, four and
zero 40 minutes of my timewasted because if I would have
just stayed focused and did whatI needed to do and then came
back down and talk and all thatstuff, then I would have saved
40 minutes.
(04:28):
So when I'm distracted andtrying to multitask, I waste a
lot of time.
That's why I am anti multitaskagainst multitasking because it
feels like we're we're savingtime, but most of the time we're
not.
Our brains can't do all ofthose things at once.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, that's the worst when you misplay something
and you know it's there.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, it happened to me not too long ago.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I'm like I just had it in my hand.
I'm looking around, let meretrace my steps.
Let me retrace my steps andstill couldn't find it.
It took forever.
So time wasters.
Some of the costs of wastingtime poor time management.
One is being disorganized, andwhen you're disorganized, you're
scattered, you can haveincreased anxiety, you won't get
as much done, you'll feelineffective and as a result of
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that, then your to-do list justgets longer.
So what happens when we don'tmaster our minutes?
Then we're wasting time and weend up really not getting
anything done at all.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, I was going to add to that too.
Like our mood shifts when youwaste time, because now you're
thinking, okay, I got to hurryup and then, depending on where
you're going, whenever you getto where you're going, whenever
you get to where you're going,you're not the same person, you
don't have the same great energy, and people are like what's
wrong and you're thinking likehow long do I have to be here?
So it just throws so manythings off.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, just just by mismanagement of time, and so we
have, like, the poor timemanagement and we also have time
wasters, social media and thisis ironic because we're on
social media right, but socialmedia can be a huge time waster.
(06:18):
As much as I love it, Ichallenge everyone out there to
really look at how much time youspend on social media.
I don't mean working, I don'tmean like really connecting with
people, I mean just mindlesslyscrolling, scrolling, scrolling,
scrolling.
Like be honest with yourselfand do a time tracker, so write
(06:39):
down every single time youscroll and for how long you
scroll, and do that for two orthree days and see what you come
up with.
I've done it before, by the way, and as a result, I started
putting in blockers so my socialmedia does not pop up.
I can't access it for severalhours during the day, unless I'm
(06:59):
working, and if I'm working,I'll go to my MacBook and do it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I like that and I will also say you know, notice
how you feel after you engage inall the scrolling, because
sometimes you know if I'mscrolling and maybe I'm looking
at something, I'm like, oh, Iwish I had that, I wish I was
there.
I don't get done scrollingfeeling energized all of the
time.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Oh, that's, a good point yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So kind of pay attention to like after you know
, after you're looking atwhatever, how are you feeling?
Are you feeling more motivatedor are you now feeling like you
need a nap?
Are you feeling like you'vebeen comparing yourself, Kind of
checking in, so that way youknow, like with real evidence in
time, is this helpful or not?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And a lot of times, after all that scrolling, you
feel exhausted and aggravatedabout people you don't even know
.
So it happens.
It happens to the best of us.
And so we're talking about thisbecause time is our most
precious commodity and Jason andI want to make sure that we're
sharing real life strategies andtips with you all so that you
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won't waste your time and thatyou can master your minutes and
be more productive and get tolive in the life that you've
worked so hard to live.
A lot of times when I talk toexecutives or leaders or high
performers, they have a lot ofguilt about wasting time and
something that I share like,don't feel bad about it, just
(08:27):
get disciplined.
And so often high performersfeel like they have to be
motivated and do thingsnaturally and I'm like no,
there's a lot of things I do I'mnot motivated to do, right.
And so I just want to telleveryone out there don't rely on
motivation, you want to rely ondiscipline, automations and
(08:50):
routine, right?
So you master your minutes byrelying on discipline,
automation and routine, becauseyour feelings are going to go up
and down.
They're like waves in the seathey come and they go.
I'm a July cancer.
I have 89 feelings per day.
They're all over the place,they range from whatever to
whatever, and if I relied on myfeelings to manage my time and
(09:14):
master my minutes, I wouldn'tget anything done.
Nothing.
So discipline, automation.
And what was the other thing Isaid?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Discipline automation and it was not delegation.
I was going to add delegation.
Okay, go ahead and talk to usabout delegation.
Yeah.
So discipline, automation,delegation, because we often or
high achievers, can feel like Ihave to do everything because I
can and Dr RJ, you say this allthe time just because you can
(09:46):
does not mean you should.
So what I find that comes up ispeople say, well, yes, I mow my
grass, or yes, I do all of myhouse chores, and no, I don't
have any help because I can doit.
But then when we look at thecost of that, how much time do
you take away from your family,your personal needs, your own
(10:08):
health, because you're trying todo everything?
So let's add delegation in thattoo.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Okay, so tell me the three again real quick.
I'm going to post it for us.
What did we?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
say so.
We got automation, discipline,discipline and delegation.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Look at us, we're a good team.
All right, I'm gonna put it uphere.
You keep talking.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, we got to delegate and we have to delegate
and be OK with it, becausethings like what you're doing
now, if we don't delegate someof the tasks I love your
assistant, they're greatreaching out and vice versa,
because if we try to doeverything, we will overwhelm
ourselves.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
And the book.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I'll give y'all a book to read too.
That really helped drive thisall the way home.
For me was who, not how?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Oh yes, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, so I'm sure you've read that one and he
breaks it down as such an easybut powerful way of how you
should not be doing everything,but find out who can do it for
you so you can do the thingsthat you want to do at the
highest level possible.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Absolutely.
There are a lot of great, greatbooks on on time management.
My favorite is Free to Focus byMichael Hyatt.
I swear by Free to Focus and itis definitely a great book, so
check it out for sure.
I listened to it on audio andit was so good I had to actually
(11:36):
buy the physical copy so Icould go and take notes and
highlight and that sort of thing.
So who, not how, and Free toFocus are two books that we both
read, we both enjoy.
We recommend to help you withtime management and mastering
your minutes and again, it's notabout motivation, it's about
(11:58):
automation, discipline anddelegation.
So some of the we're going togive you all some strategies on
exactly what you can do.
Some of these strategies willwork for you.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Some of them won't, but try them all and find what
works into your flow of life.
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All right, let's get back tothe episode.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
So I often talk about the art of balance.
So I've created a frameworkcalled the art of balance.
If you would like like thesummary of the art of balance
and you don't have to take agazillion notes right now as I
go over it briefly just text artof balance to 833-451-4258 for
your free art of balance guide.
So the art of Balance isauthenticity, relentless rest
(13:42):
and time consciousness.
So today, obviously, we're justgoing to talk about time
consciousness, because we'respeaking on mastering your
minutes.
Part of time consciousness isjust being aware of what you're
doing.
Often we do things on autopilotand not in a good way, right?
I don't mean like automation,but I mean autopilot where we're
(14:03):
not present or mindful of whatwe're doing.
So it's kind of like you'redriving home and thinking about
something else, not payingattention.
Pass your exit.
Actually.
Let me give you a real example.
I'll give you a real example.
I was on the highway the otherday and I live in Atlanta, right
?
So y'all know like sometimes, ifyou miss a certain exit or get
(14:27):
off in the wrong place, it'sover over for you.
So I've lived here for 20 yearsor 22 years, so I should know
to pay attention.
I was on the phone with mysister and we were talking about
something that was real goodand I was like girl, I missed my
exit and I lost 12 minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I was going to say at least 15 minutes If it would
have been traffic, that wouldhave been worse.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
There was no traffic 12 minutes, just by not paying
attention and being mindful.
Now, of course I was payingattention, driving right, but I
was on autopilot, like I've beendriving since I was 14.
And so I'm a pretty good driverand I was paying attention to
the road, but really paying moreattention to my sister and we
would just kiki in or whatever.
(15:16):
I'm like girl.
I missed the whole exit.
So that's an example of when wetalk about time consciousness,
just being aware of time andspace.
Be aware of what you're doing.
Be mindful of what you're doingin the moment.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, so I'll jump in .
I love that one.
Definitely don't want to missyour exit in Atlanta.
So mine is doing one thing at atime.
What I find is that this islike from a bigger picture.
When you're trying to do a lotof things, you're not.
You'll be flustered, want togive up, but the reason is
(16:04):
because you're doing a lot ofthings at the same time.
If you can just lock in on oneparticular area or issue, get
that one completed and then moveon to the next one.
It's kind of like when somebodywants to revamp their life and
they're like okay, I want tolose weight, I want to go back
to school, I want to start afamily, start my career.
(16:25):
It's like wait, wait, wait,wait, that's a lot, that's a lot
.
So like, what is the priority?
And then have a list for that.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Oh, I love that you said that.
Often when I talk to my clients, I ask them to focus on done
what's next, like, do that, getit done now, what's next?
I actually, when I was speakingto a client earlier today, I
asked her to write on herwhiteboard done what's next.
She's a creative, she's reallytalented, she has all these
ideas and I'm like girl, you'renot about to do all this in one
(16:56):
month, right, let's look at thequarter and done what's next.
And I know she's going to lovethat phrase.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I love that phrase.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, and it helps you stay focused.
I have to tell myself that allthe time, but I love that you
talked about like prioritizing,and so another strategy or skill
or tactic, something to thinkabout is distinguish,
distinguishing what's urgentversus what's important.
Right, we think and that's thethat's part of the eisenhower
(17:27):
matrix that I'm going to getinto but what's urgent versus
important?
So I want to talk about that alittle bit.
There are a lot of differenttype it.
Let me multitask.
This is why I don't multitask.
There are a lot of differentthings that are a lot of
different concepts or frameworksthat discuss urgent versus
important.
When, when I work with withleaders, sometimes I'll talk
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about if there is a fire, right,is it really a fire like a red
or is it kind of like a yellow,like what is?
this Because often leaders feeloverwhelmed.
They're putting out everybody'sfires, they're jumping to
everyone's rescue and then theycan't get their own work done,
and so then they end up doingwork at home and getting burned
out like that.
(18:10):
You want to find your ownstrategy on how to determine
urgent versus important.
Everything ain't urgent, Likefind a maximum of three things
that are urgent.
Maximum Everything else andwe'll talk about this a little
(18:33):
bit down the line but everythingelse can be put into a
different category.
So distinguish, do one thing ata time and then determine
what's urgent versus important.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
That's part of there for a hot second too, Dr RJ.
Yeah, Urgent versus important.
The book that came to mind Ithink it's Benjamin Howe.
He brings that up in Be yourFuture Self.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Right.
So that's why I was like holdon, what book is that?
The same author, who, not how?
Who says what is urgent islikely not always important, and
then what is important is notalways urgent.
So I have to say, be yourfuture self.
Who, not how?
Urgent versus important Y'all,we're giving y'all a lot of gems
right now, so make sure youaction these things.
(19:22):
Okay, that was it.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
And no, that's perfect.
That's another one of myfavorites.
I have a whole list of books,but I love Be your Future Self
now, and I've actually written aletter to myself.
I do it year to year and when Imake decisions, I make them
based upon is this good for myfuture self?
Would the future Dr RJ want youto do this?
Would the Dr RJ who wants to behealthy and in shape and able
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to run around the yard with herson?
Would she choose?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Chick-fil-A for breakfast instead of a bowl of
oatmeal.
That was my decision thismorning.
Did you go with the oatmeal orChick-fil-A?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Oatmeal.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Okay, I had oatmeal yesterday.
I had Chick-fil-A Oatmeal.
Okay, I had oatmeal yesterday.
I had Chick-fil-A today.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I'm going to get some Chick-fil-A tomorrow, though,
because my future self wouldwant me to have some balance,
some balance Right, right.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So I was going to go to the next one, which is have a
simple routine.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
This will help you with time management when you
think about bedtime routines,your nightly routines.
We have it, but we have itsimple and I think that helps.
So you know, okay, I'm brushingmy teeth, I'm flossing, I'm
doing a mouthwash, I'm doing myhair, I'm doing, and it's like
you have an order for it.
And what helps is now you canstay disciplined.
You don't have to delegatebecause you're doing it yourself
(20:37):
, but you can keep up with it,and the more you do it, the more
you say you know what I can dothese things and sometimes we
feel overwhelmed about we feellike you know.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I got so much to do.
I don't feel like getting ready, but keep it simple.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
sweet We've all heard that before and the more simple
.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
You can make it.
I heard keep it simple, stupid.
Oh, that's what.
You heard it in a nice way, Idon't know, I remixed it.
Yeah, well, I went to publicschool.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So that's what we used to.
The teachers used to tell us inthe simple, stupid, yep, simple
, stupid, simple, sweet, make itwork y'all.
Like when we get on here.
You have streamlined it withstream yard right, so it's
simple and we're aliveeverywhere, so it's easy for us
to keep it going.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah yeah, simple routine.
There's genius in simplicity.
Often make things complex, andwhen it's unnecessary, there's
genius in simplicity and that'show you definitely get things
done.
So I love the strategy ofhaving a simple routine and it
also helps or goes along withthe automation piece.
(21:46):
And so, as we're talking abouta simple routine, some of you
may be saying well, my life iscomplicated, I got a whole lot
to do, I have a whole to-do listof things.
I'm a mom, I'm a wife, I'm aCEO, I'm running a business, I
volunteer for my church and mysorority and the kids' school
(22:08):
and all the things right, andthen for the men, same thing.
If you're saying that, then itmay be difficult to think of a
simple routine.
So I have a strategy for you aswell.
It's called the EisenhowerMatrix.
Now, a lot of you may have heardof the Eisenhower Matrix.
(22:29):
It's one of my favorites and asI was creating the Art of
Balance framework, theEisenhower Matrix really popped
out.
I did a lot of reading, a lotof research and studying about
it and it really does fit how Ido life and how a lot of
executives, top performers,leaders can benefit from doing
life in this way.
So let me give it to you thequick way.
(22:51):
So the Eisenhower matrix andyou can Google it.
There is an app, there's allthe things you can do with it,
but we're just gonna keep itsimple today for the sake of
time.
So you have four categories.
There is your do, delegate,schedule or delete.
So if you have a long list, mostpeople say I have a laundry
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list of things to do.
My to-do list is a mile long.
When I talk about timeconsciousness, I talk about a
to-don't list, but that'sanother section For the
Eisenhower matrix.
Have your long to-do list andgo through and put it in
categories.
So what must you do?
What must you do first, Thenwhat can you delegate, Then what
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can you schedule for later andwhat can you delete.
And so, as you were talkingabout making things simple, a
lot of things we can deletebecause we're making our task,
our days, way too complex andit's just not necessary.
Just like you don't got to doall that stuff too much, Just
delete it so yeah, I love it.
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It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
It coincides with what I was going to give for our
last one, or my last one wasaudit your time.
But you can leave it up therebecause, essentially, as you
audit your time, that's canleave it up there because,
essentially, as you audit yourtime, that's what you will look
at what do I need to do, what doI delegate, what do I schedule
and what needs to be deleted.
So that's so funny.
We were thinking along the samelines.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yep and that.
So let me tell y'all we didn'tprep for this Like.
I was like hey, can't wait tosee you, and he's like I'll see
you later.
That's not what happened.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
So we did not prep for this.
It's just we do this every day.
We've been doing it for years.
We're masters at our individualcrafts and so I love that when
we talk about these topics, wehave our own way of doing it,
but it's still along the sameline, which reaches more of our
audience in that way.
(24:59):
So, time audit, go ahead andkeep talking about that.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, you want to audit your time.
You really want to take a lookat what are, or where are, your
time snatchers.
What are the things that you'redoing where you, if you take a
step back and you look at it, Idon't need to do this anymore.
I can ask someone else to do it.
Maybe it does not need to bedone.
It's not serving the samepurpose, but you may find
yourself continuously runninginto the same problems.
(25:25):
So by auditing your time, youcan really look at where is your
time going, what's keeping youstuck, what's holding you up.
And you can't just do that byjust thinking about it.
Sometimes you literally have towalk through your day and pay
attention, be mindful of.
Oh wait, I'm spending this muchtime on social media or I'm
(25:47):
spending this much time onhousework.
Maybe I should really look intoasking for help or hiring some
help, because I found thatthat's the biggest one with high
achievers.
We do things that we knowinnately.
I can ask somebody else to doit, and they can maybe even do
it better than you, so you canstay in your zone of genius.
(26:08):
It keeps everything you know,everybody, happy.
I often think about.
I'm going to put a basketballanalogy on here.
You think about Michael Jordanand you think about LeBron James
.
Often they look at who's thebetter person.
Now LeBron can play fivepositions, but Jordan was so
great at his one position Likehe's hands down the greatest
(26:29):
shooting guard, and I think whenyou think about auditing your
time and trying to do everything, lebron is still dope.
Don't get me wrong, but Jordanjust locked in and solidified
himself as the greatest handsdown because he knew this was
his zone of genius.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I love that.
So just because you can doeverything doesn't mean that you
should, and you can setyourself apart by locking in on
one thing, which is why, Jason,I don't do laundry Like that's
not my zone of genius.
I know how to do it.
I know how to get my son'sbaseball pants white.
(27:06):
I don't do all that Likesomebody else can do it and they
can do it better, and I don'tlike to.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
And it frees you have to do stuff that you do want to
do.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, I don't go to the grocery store.
Food with the grocery store.
A lot of people are like, oh, Ilove the farmer's market,
whatever.
Well, that's different, becausethat's self-care.
If you love the farmer's market, that doesn't count as a chore,
that's like self-care.
I don't really feel the grocerystore, but I can go in the
garden section of Home Depot andstay for two hours with no
issue.
I actually just did that.
(27:37):
It's about auditing your timeto understand what's valuable to
you.
That's why it's so importantthat we talk about this topic of
how to master your minutes sothat you can work smart and stay
sane.
You want to really maximizeyour quality of life by being
focused, being present andreally thinking about what
(28:01):
matters to you.
Don't compare yourself to thenext person.
Don't be like Dr RJ don't dolaundry, so I'm not either.
If you love folding yourclothes, right.
If you love folding your clothes, then do that.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
So I think we've done so.
Know, we've had so manyconversations, but I feel like
this is one of the most simple,stupid, impactful ones that
people will have a lot of gemsfor a minute to like implement.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Absolutely.
We dropped a lot of things foryou all.
Share it, watch it over andover, take some notes.
I mean, I think that's it.
We kept it simple.
We have some tangible, easy toimplement tasks for all of you,
so I implore you to choose oneand do that consistently.
(28:47):
It's done.
What's next?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, love.
It, all right y'all, thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
We'll see y'all soon, bye.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Thank you all for listening to another episode of
the Peace and Prosperity Podcast.
Again, if you are feeling like,hey, I'm experiencing high
functioning anxiety, feelinglike, hey, I'm experiencing high
functioning anxiety, don't beatyourself up about it.
It is okay.
We all experience anxiety fromtime to time and I gave you a
couple of things that you can doon your own, but don't hesitate
(29:22):
to reach out to a professionalto better manage what you're
going through.
Okay, and lastly, make sure, ifyou have not like share,
subscribe to the podcast andsend this out to a friend.
And if you want to hear acertain episodes or have certain
conversations, let me know.
(29:42):
You can shoot me a DM or justleave a review and I will
definitely follow up.
All right, y'all.
Be blessed, peace.
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