Time Efficiency, Time Mastery, Daily Habits Of High Performers, Self Help Podcast

⏰ Time Mastery: Why Time Efficiency Is The Secret Ingredient To Success

In this empowering episode of the Self Help Show, Gina-Margaret Tiger breaks down how mastering your time leads to mastering your life. With relatable wisdom, research, and real-life reflections, she explores how the most successful people in the world use the same 24 hours — but with more intention, efficiency, and strategy.

🧠 What You’ll Learn:

00:00 – Welcome To Chapter Seven: All Things Time

00:30 – Why Time Is A Universal Resource

01:00 – Priorities, Focus, And Choices That Build Legends

01:50 – How Cultural Influences Shape Our Relationship With Time

02:40 – Productivity Tips From The World’s Most Successful People

03:30 – Daily Habits For Better Time Management

04:10 – Delegation, Focus, And The Power Of Saying No

05:30 – Work Life Balance And Protecting Your Energy

06:30 – How To Start Using Your Time Like The Greats

07:20 – Automations, Tools, And Smart Systems That Save You Hours

08:10 – Why The Key To Success Is Smart Work, Not Hard Work

💡 Episode Highlights:

• Time is equal, results are not — it’s about how you use it

• Greatness requires discipline, delegation, and daily intention

• Efficiency is more than just scheduling — it’s alignment

• You don’t need to do more, just focus on what matters most

• Your time choices are shaping your future — right now

📓 Journal Prompt:

If I tracked every hour of my day this week, where would I be wasting time that I could redirect toward my goals?

🌿 Affirmation:

“I manage my time with clarity and confidence. I focus on what matters. I create success through intention.”

💬 Real Talk Reminder:

Success isn’t magic. It’s time, used well. Use your time like the greats and watch your life transform.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Hello, welcome to yet another episode of a thousand voices podcast.

(00:11):
You are in chapter seven where I'm talking about time, everything to do with time.
Feel free to share this podcast with somebody you know is always late.
Someone you know is always missing their deadlines.
Somebody you know that needs to value time because I'm going to be talking about all

(00:34):
those things on this chapter.
So today's topic, I am talking about time and success.
And this is especially focusing on your favorite great person.
This can be your athlete, somebody you look up to, your role models, your, you know, people

(00:56):
that's made history, celebrities, good ones.
We have to be very careful with celebrities, eh?
Because things that are being exposed these days, I can't use the term celebrity as an
umbrella.
Like it has to be the good celebrities now because y'all, the bad ones are bad.
Okay, back to the topic.
So how do greats use their time?

(01:19):
Greats as in every successful person that you know, right?
It can be Elon Musk.
It can be Jeff Bezos.
They all have 24 hours just like me and you.
How do they achieve so much more?
I've always been curious to know how they do that.
And I did a little bit of digging and this is what I got.

(01:40):
And this is all generic guys, okay?
I don't know these people's personal lives, but this is kind of an overall overview of,
you know, how time is equal opportunity and how we make choices to optimize our time efficiently.

(02:02):
So number one, time is a universal resource.
Everybody has access to it.
Regardless of your circumstances, your background and your status.
Every morning, wake up and repeat this to yourself that time is a universal resource
regardless of my circumstance, my background and my status.
I think if you remind yourself this every single day, it will kind of help you make

(02:26):
decisions, being aware of that, you know?
Then priorities.
I believe people prioritize different things in different aspects of their lives.
So what you focus on becomes who you are.
If you focus on your career, you become, you know, a legend.
You focus on your hobbies.

(02:46):
You focus on your personal growth.
You focus on your family.
These priorities shape how these grades allocate their time.
Then their choices.
Everybody makes choices on how they spend their time and that can significantly impact
your life.

(03:07):
This can be your happiness, your relationships.
It can be your overall life satisfaction.
So for example, taking time for self care, like what you're doing now, can lead to a
better well-being.
Okay?
Then we also have cultural influences.

(03:27):
So cultural attitudes, right?
Towards time depend and they affect on how people perceive and utilize time.
So some cultures, if you're late, you are late and it shows that you are unprofessional.
You are disorganized.
You don't respect other people's time.

(03:49):
Like some cultures, they would really, really get angry or you could be even punished.
You know, there are instances like that.
Then you also have cultures like the African time.
You know how it is with us Africans?
Hey, we have our own clock, the African time.
So it doesn't really matter how we use the time, but like, I feel like we need to do

(04:11):
better, honestly.
Then a lot of great people reflect on their time.
They audit their time and they make sure that their time is efficient in the ways of life,
that they are being fulfilled and that their life is aligned with their goals.
So that's very important to matter.

(04:33):
So some of the techniques that you can try is, you know, prioritizing, set some goals,
have daily routines in place, like establish a structured morning that will determine how
your day will go.
Be accountable for every hour, be accountable for every day, be accountable for every week,

(04:54):
be accountable for every year.
Then one thing that successful people do is they delegate, right?
So they don't do everything on their own.
They have teams, they have people that work with them.
So what that does is it enables them to actually do so much in a short space of time.

(05:17):
They are also laser focused.
And what I mean by this is you will never catch a successful person being distracted.
They are laser focused and what I mean is if they commit to doing a specific thing,
they will put all of their focus into doing that.

(05:39):
You won't find them with notifications ring left, right and center.
You will always find them zoning in into one particular thing until that is done.
So how are you going to make shifts within your time?

(06:01):
I'm curious to know.
I want you to maybe drop a comment, drop a notification in the chat box for me.
Let me see what you have to say because it's very important to know like if you're listening
to this, are you actually applying this into your life?

(06:22):
It's very important.
Then another thing is after you understand that you limit your distractions, you also
need to continuously learn.
So invest time in personal growth because the better you become, the better you can
achieve certain things and the better you can optimize your time.

(06:42):
Then you always, always, always have to prioritize work life balance.
After that you make time for your personal life.
This is one thing that I always say, not so good at, I need help.
I'm blinking twice guys.
I know you can't see it, but I'm blinking twice.

(07:04):
So you need to make time for personal interest, for family, for self care and for overall
well-being.
I think when it comes to all these particular things that I've mentioned, I do take time
for self care.
I do take time for maintaining overall well-being.
What I just need to spend more time doing is just the personal stuff because I tend
to just work.

(07:24):
You know this.
So now I think if we look at some of the most successful people from like Steve Jobs to
like Jay's business, what do they have in common?
I'm asking you.
Obviously they have a lot more money.
They have all this fortune and fame.

(07:44):
I wish we knew some of their secret time management habits, you know, because then that should
be like a pamphlet for people to learn.
These people are also just not busy.
They are busy.
They are productive, but they are very intentional with what they do.

(08:07):
So they prioritize time over things for the most part.
And the key isn't to working a lot more hours, but the key is to working smart, focusing
on high impact activities.
And so it's like a 80-20 type of method.

(08:29):
Like you put in 20, you get 80% reward.
Make sure every hour count, every minute count.
And yeah, just follow steps that will enable you to use your time like the grapes and try
to get as much done in a short space of time.

(08:49):
So you know, with the entrepreneurship lifestyle these days, especially your digital nomads,
they will tell you like, you work only four days in a week or you work only three days
in a week, then you get to do whatever you love for the rest of the time, which is kind

(09:10):
of true in a way because there are things like project management tools.
There are AI tools.
There's like a whole lot of things that you can utilize to improve your life.
And then you don't have to spend a lot more time doing like the manual side of things,

(09:31):
but you can have automated ways of doing this so that in a day, in your Monday, you can
work four hours instead of nine hours.
You know what I mean?
But let's hold that thought right there because I'm also still just discovering how I can
fully utilize my time.
I would really love to revisit this topic when I get there and I'll be like, hey guys,

(09:52):
remember that time?
Okay, now listen here.
This is how you do it.
So we are all just working together in this journey and I hope you continuously make the
right decisions and I will catch you soon on the next episode where I will be talking
about time in relationships.