August 22, 2023 • 17 mins
When I talk about what I do, and how I coach people and why it is that I talk about "the work plus the woo", it's because 100% of the people that I work with, no... scratch that - 100% of the entrepreneurs that I know want to focus on leveling up their energy, want to develop a meditation practice want to and corporate so much into their personal and spiritual growth, but they struggle with finding the time because it's just overwhelming running their business.
But I've learned, that it isn't that the things that are needed in their business are overwhelming per se, it's that they lack the skills needed to managing some pieces of the foundational part of their business in some way. And this isn't spoken with judgment. This is an objective observation of something that I see all the time period it's really common. Because most of the time, we get into business as entrepreneurs because we have a passion for creating or selling or coaching or teaching, but we don't necessarily have the technological training or the business and strategy background to be able to organize all of the things. And it's holding them back from leveling up in their success in business, but more importantly, and more important to me, is that it's causing stress.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, my name is Corinne Oflin and you're
listening to the CalmEntrepreneur podcast.
I am a USA Today bestsellingauthor, non-profit executive and
organizing nerd with over 20years experience running my own
small businesses.
I teach entrepreneurs,solarpreneurs and small business
owners like you how to organizeyour business, find more time
(00:21):
and deepen your alignmentpractice to experience more calm
and confidence every single day.
If you're looking for thatintersection between practical
business advice and spiritualgoodness, then you're in the
right place.
So sit back, relax and let'sdive into this week's episode of
the Calm Entrepreneur podcast.
Welcome, welcome to the CalmEntrepreneur podcast.
(00:45):
I'm your host, corinne Oflin,and this is episode 35.
When I talk about what I do andhow I coach people, they always
ask what's this whoop and work,what is the point of having both
of those things?
And the reason why I talk aboutit the way that I do is because
100% of the people that I workwith and you know scratch that
(01:07):
100% of the entrepreneurs who Iknow they want to focus on
leveling up their energy.
They want to develop ameditation practice, for example
.
They want to incorporate somuch into their personal and
spiritual growth, but theystruggle with finding the time
because it is just sooverwhelming running their
business and getting it all donein a day.
(01:29):
And I've learned that it isn'tjust that the things that are
needed in their business areoverwhelming per se, it's that
they lack the skills needed tomanage some pieces of the
foundational part of theirbusiness.
And this is not spoken withjudgment.
This is an objectiveobservation of something that I
(01:49):
see all the time.
It's really common because mostof the time I mean think about
it.
We get into business asentrepreneurs because we have a
passion for creating somethingor selling something or coaching
other people or teaching otherpeople, but we don't necessarily
have a business background.
(02:09):
We don't have the technologicaltraining or the marketing or
strategy background to be ableto get the overarching view of
all of it, to be able toorganize all the things, and
it's holding a lot of us backfrom leveling up and it's
preventing success in business.
But more importantly and moreimportant to me is it's causing
(02:34):
stress.
When you are running your ownbusiness, you are the CEO and
you're not yet at the pointwhere you can hire a team, so
you have to figure out how tomake it all fit, how to make it
all work, how to do all thethings that it takes to run a
business and, as I talk about sooften on this show and in my
(02:54):
community, the skills that youneed to do those foundational
things in your businesssuccessfully.
Those are all core capabilities, right?
They all fall under executivefunctioning and they include
things like self restraint,stress tolerance, working memory
, emotion control, focus, taskinitiation, planning,
(03:17):
prioritization, organization,time management and defining and
achieving goals and beingflexible.
And all of these things areskills, not personality traits,
and I'm going to say that againfor the people in the back these
things are skills, notpersonality traits, so that
means that they can be taught.
(03:37):
So if you struggle in one ofthese areas, there's a reason to
hope right, because there aresolutions available to you.
It really is just a matter ofreaching out and going on a
discovery expedition to see whatworks for you.
So on this episode, I want totalk about time management
strategies and, before I forget,I'm going to be teaching a
(03:58):
class on stress-free timemanagement in the near future
and if you want to get on thewaitlist for that, you can find
the link in the show notes or bygoing to my website at
CorinneOphlincom.
I have travel coming up.
I'll be going to DragonCon anda couple of conferences in
September, so it's probablygoing to be in October at the
time I get around to being ableto host this live.
(04:20):
But if you're interested in myclass, stress-free time
management, get on the waitlistand I will make sure you get
notified when it's time.
Okay, so time managementstrategies.
If you do any searching onlinefor how to manage your time,
you're going to find moresolutions than you could
possibly consume in a lifetime,and I am definitely of the mind
(04:44):
that you should explore and tryall the different things,
because you don't know whatworks for you until you find it
right.
There is no one-size-fits-allsolution and it is vital that
you continue to test until youfind the things that fit for you
and then, once you find outwhat works for you, stop looking
and get to work.
(05:04):
I'm in a creativity group and weare doing a workshop of this
book called Creating Time UsingCreativity to Reinvent the Clock
and Reclaim your Life, byMarnie K Macrodakis and I hope
I'm pronouncing her name rightand this class it's been.
It's not a class, it's aworkshop.
We're doing it all together.
It's been really interestingbecause the book guides us
(05:28):
through all the different waysthat we have relationship with
time, and a lot of the group hasexpressed you know we don't
really think about it in theways that we actually do have
relationships with time, and howimpactful that is in the way
that we get through the day, inthe way that we talk to
(05:49):
ourselves, in the way that wethink about life, and so I
wanted to find a way to sharesome time management strategies
that are kind of universal, thatare not prescriptive, but could
perhaps be foundational in that, should you begin to follow
these things that I'm going toshare with you and there's only
a couple they will help you finda path that you can then tailor
(06:12):
to your own needs through thatexploration.
Right, and so the first thingthat I want you to think about
is this question what is yourrelationship with time?
And what I mean by that is doyou consistently run late when
you prep for things?
Do you always need a few lastminutes to get something truly
ready?
When you're working onsomething, do you lose track of
(06:32):
time, does time fly, does itdrag?
Or do you consistently findyourself running out of time to
do the work in the time that youallotted for a certain frame of
time or do you have a good gripon measuring how much time
things are going to take?
Right?
You time block an hour to do aproject or a piece of a project
(06:53):
and, like, four hours later, youstill haven't gotten to that
milestone for the day.
One of the biggest things thatcomes up when we talk about goal
setting is identifying how muchtime you actually have to do a
thing and then how much time youthink something's actually
going to take to do right, andit's an eye-opening experience
to discover where those twointersect.
(07:16):
Right, because they very rarelyfit together, because we always
think we have more time or thatsomething is going to take less
time than it actually does.
And the key here is that we allhave patterns here, and taking
the time maybe a few days, maybea week to identify your
patterns.
This will give you a roadmap tomove ahead.
(07:36):
Often, when we run into troublewith time management, it can be
because we also struggle withprioritizing our tasks, and this
is one of those things that Ireally struggled with when I was
younger and even now, when Iget stressed, it is still the
one place where I can beguaranteed to slip up, and for
(07:56):
me that's prioritizing, becausewhen I get stressed, everything
looks like a priority.
So, for example, I'll beworking on something like
project A and because I'mfeeling stressed or for whatever
reason I'm having stress, Iwill start to get distracted.
Because then I procrastinate,because I get you know, the
stress piece wants me to notwork anymore and I'll do
(08:17):
something like checking email,for example, or checking my
texts, and as soon as somethingcomes in where somebody else
needs something from me, I willdrop whatever it is that I'm
doing, I will stop working onproject A and I will take care
of whatever it is that I can do.
You know, quote, unquote realquick, because I know in the
moment that I can get that done.
(08:39):
And it's like this dopamine hitand I know that this is a
symptom, right, because I haveidentified that pattern for
myself.
So when I see myself doing that, I can pull myself back.
But that was not always thecase.
So that's where the value comesin in tracking what you're
doing.
But it is, it's something thatcomes up often, and so my next
(08:59):
question for you is what is yourrelationship with prioritizing?
I think the ability toprioritize things is an
underrated skill.
That is actually vital, becauseif you're not able to
prioritize the way that youspend your time, then you can't
actually make reliable plans.
I mean, think about it.
There are a lot of tools thatyou can use for prioritizing and
(09:22):
, like everything else, it's soeasy to get lost in all the
options.
Right, there's, like thisincredible, not even a buffet.
It's like a never endingassembly line of time and task
management tools out there.
But one of the easiest to learnis something called the Covey
Quadrants, created by StevenCovey.
(09:42):
The Covey Quadrants are a lotlike the Eisenhower matrix, and
I will put a link to that in theshow notes so that you can see
what I'm talking about.
But the Eisenhower matrixfocuses on the urgency of tasks,
where the Covey Quadrants focuson time in addition to the
importance of things.
So basically, what you do isyou draw out a big square and
(10:05):
you dissect it with a plus sign.
So you have four quadrants andquadrant number one is urgent
and important and you have noturgent and important.
Then you have urgent and notimportant, and not urgent and
not important, and these thingsgo across in a matrix.
So they're like you have onecolumn marked urgent, one column
marked important, one mark noturgent, one mark not important.
(10:27):
And then the cross sections arewhere things get identified,
and what you're supposed to dois identify all the things that
you need to do and then you dropthem into one of these four
boxes based on their urgency andtheir importance.
And it sounds really simple,because it is right, but the
process of doing this isactually quite illuminating,
(10:48):
because you identify right awaywhether or not you can identify
something as being urgent versusimportant, because those are
different things, right, likeeverything is urgent if you
can't prioritize, everything isimportant if you can't
prioritize.
So this is a really simpleexercise that you can use,
(11:09):
because it can be a goodstarting point for figuring out
where to go from here, and Ithink that quite often we get
into this analysis paralysiswhen it comes to using all these
different tools out there, andso this is not something that
needs purchasing.
You don't need to sign up foranything.
It's a piece of paper, it's awhiteboard and a pen.
You make a square and you drawthe diagram and you start
(11:31):
filling in the boxes using thethings that have to be done that
are on your plate right now.
From there, you can then moveforward and say you know what.
I did not really have a hardtime identifying which went
where.
I had a problem with tracking,which brings me to my next
question, which is how do youkeep track of it all?
This is an area that can trip alot of us up to, because this
(11:57):
is the tools and the apps andthe schedulers and the calendars
and all the different thingsthat we actually do need to stay
on track, to stay focused, toprioritize and just to stay on
time.
So one thing that a lot ofcoaches share is their toolkit.
Right, here's the list ofthings that I use to get through
the day, with all of my toolson it and links to, you know,
check them out and those thingscan be really helpful if you're
(12:21):
struggling.
But again, you know, the toolsthat I list on my toolkit might
not be tools that work for you,they might not resonate with the
way that you work, they mightnot be solutions for you, and
you know.
So there's this rabbit holepotential that you could fall
into with trying to figure outhow does Karin do it, how does
this person do it, how does thatperson do it.
(12:41):
I want to emulate theirpractice.
You know that only goes as faras it goes, because if it
doesn't resonate with you,you're not going to stick with
it, and if you don't stick withit, it's not going to work.
So that's why the things thatI'm sharing in this episode are
really kind of like the zoom out.
They're the large picture view,the universal foundational
(13:03):
pieces that you need for timemanagement so that you can start
here and then you can inchforward, but you'll have a
foundation from which to workeffectively.
You have to be really carefulwith the shiny object syndrome
when it comes to other people'sprocesses, and you know I really
I don't think I stress thisenough, because it's one of
(13:23):
those things.
I mean, I have fallen victim toit as well Like I want the most
affection, I want the mosteffective, I want the thing
that's going to solve all myproblems.
And you know what?
There isn't a one size fits allfor anything.
So we have to eyeball whatother people are doing, be aware
(13:44):
of what else is out there, youknow, try things on and then see
, because only when we determinethat they are actually working
for us are they worth anythingto us.
You know, full stop, becausewhen it comes right down to it,
I think you need a place to keeptrack of your stuff and you
need a place to keep track ofyour appointments.
(14:05):
Like for me, I use the fullfocus planner, which is a paper
planner, and I use GoogleCalendar.
Those two things keep me going.
They're very, very simple and Idon't have 400 different pieces
of things to keep track of inthe world.
Do I have other things?
Yes, I have things likeCalendly, asana and Evernote,
but those things are kind ofsupplemental.
(14:27):
If I were going to go on a trip, I would bring my device that
has all of my Google and I wouldbring my paper planner, my full
focus planner.
Those two things alone give meaccess to my Gmail and my
calendar and my paper planner.
That's all I need to getthrough.
So I think that we need tosimplify, we need to find the
(14:52):
lowest common denominator.
What is the simplest thing thatI can do to get back on track
with time and task management,organizing my time and
organizing my time, and that'sit.
I think that we tend toovercomplicate things,
especially in the areas wherewe're struggling, and I think
(15:12):
that if we just give ourselvespermission to make it easy, we
can demystify a lot of thethings that we struggle with,
because I think the tendency isto try to overcomplicate things
because we think it needs to behard and it actually really,
really doesn't, and this is oneof those places where it really
doesn't need to be.
So, again, we all workdifferently, our brains work
(15:34):
differently, our skill sets comefrom different places, our
comfort level with technologyversus paperworking.
We're all unique, right?
We're all individual people,and so it's really important to
keep track of what you're doing.
Try things on, stick with whatworks and jettison the things
that don't work, but giveyourself permission to stop
(15:55):
looking once you find somethingthat feels like it's working for
you.
You know that said, the thingsthat I have shared here I think
are universally important tofinding your way, because you
need to understand yourrelationship with time, you need
to learn how to prioritize yourtime and you need to find a way
to keep track of everything ina way that is effective for you.
(16:17):
That's it.
There's three things, guys Time, priorities for your tasks and
keeping track of it Full stop.
That's it.
So that's all I have for youthis week.
Thank you so much for listeningand I will catch you next time.
And remember part of being acalm entrepreneur is developing
the systems, habits and know-howthat lets you know that you are
(16:41):
the one in the driver's seatfor your business.
You get to choose how you thinkand you get to choose how you
work.
So you got this, my friends.
Thank you for listening.
Hey there, my name is Corinne Oflin and you're
listening to the CalmEntrepreneur podcast.
I am a USA Today bestsellingauthor, non-profit executive and
organizing nerd with over 20years experience running my own
small businesses.
I teach entrepreneurs,solarpreneurs and small business
owners like you how to organizeyour business, find more time
(00:21):
and deepen your alignmentpractice to experience more calm
and confidence every single day.
If you're looking for thatintersection between practical
business advice and spiritualgoodness, then you're in the
right place.
So sit back, relax and let'sdive into this week's episode of
the Calm Entrepreneur podcast.
Welcome, welcome to the CalmEntrepreneur podcast.
(00:45):
I'm your host, corinne Oflin,and this is episode 35.
When I talk about what I do andhow I coach people, they always
ask what's this whoop and work,what is the point of having both
of those things?
And the reason why I talk aboutit the way that I do is because
100% of the people that I workwith and you know scratch that
(01:07):
100% of the entrepreneurs who Iknow they want to focus on
leveling up their energy.
They want to develop ameditation practice, for example
.
They want to incorporate somuch into their personal and
spiritual growth, but theystruggle with finding the time
because it is just sooverwhelming running their
business and getting it all donein a day.
(01:29):
And I've learned that it isn'tjust that the things that are
needed in their business areoverwhelming per se, it's that
they lack the skills needed tomanage some pieces of the
foundational part of theirbusiness.
And this is not spoken withjudgment.
This is an objectiveobservation of something that I
(01:49):
see all the time.
It's really common because mostof the time I mean think about
it.
We get into business asentrepreneurs because we have a
passion for creating somethingor selling something or coaching
other people or teaching otherpeople, but we don't necessarily
have a business background.
(02:09):
We don't have the technologicaltraining or the marketing or
strategy background to be ableto get the overarching view of
all of it, to be able toorganize all the things, and
it's holding a lot of us backfrom leveling up and it's
preventing success in business.
But more importantly and moreimportant to me is it's causing
(02:34):
stress.
When you are running your ownbusiness, you are the CEO and
you're not yet at the pointwhere you can hire a team, so
you have to figure out how tomake it all fit, how to make it
all work, how to do all thethings that it takes to run a
business and, as I talk about sooften on this show and in my
(02:54):
community, the skills that youneed to do those foundational
things in your businesssuccessfully.
Those are all core capabilities, right?
They all fall under executivefunctioning and they include
things like self restraint,stress tolerance, working memory
, emotion control, focus, taskinitiation, planning,
(03:17):
prioritization, organization,time management and defining and
achieving goals and beingflexible.
And all of these things areskills, not personality traits,
and I'm going to say that againfor the people in the back these
things are skills, notpersonality traits, so that
means that they can be taught.
(03:37):
So if you struggle in one ofthese areas, there's a reason to
hope right, because there aresolutions available to you.
It really is just a matter ofreaching out and going on a
discovery expedition to see whatworks for you.
So on this episode, I want totalk about time management
strategies and, before I forget,I'm going to be teaching a
(03:58):
class on stress-free timemanagement in the near future
and if you want to get on thewaitlist for that, you can find
the link in the show notes or bygoing to my website at
CorinneOphlincom.
I have travel coming up.
I'll be going to DragonCon anda couple of conferences in
September, so it's probablygoing to be in October at the
time I get around to being ableto host this live.
(04:20):
But if you're interested in myclass, stress-free time
management, get on the waitlistand I will make sure you get
notified when it's time.
Okay, so time managementstrategies.
If you do any searching onlinefor how to manage your time,
you're going to find moresolutions than you could
possibly consume in a lifetime,and I am definitely of the mind
(04:44):
that you should explore and tryall the different things,
because you don't know whatworks for you until you find it
right.
There is no one-size-fits-allsolution and it is vital that
you continue to test until youfind the things that fit for you
and then, once you find outwhat works for you, stop looking
and get to work.
(05:04):
I'm in a creativity group and weare doing a workshop of this
book called Creating Time UsingCreativity to Reinvent the Clock
and Reclaim your Life, byMarnie K Macrodakis and I hope
I'm pronouncing her name rightand this class it's been.
It's not a class, it's aworkshop.
We're doing it all together.
It's been really interestingbecause the book guides us
(05:28):
through all the different waysthat we have relationship with
time, and a lot of the group hasexpressed you know we don't
really think about it in theways that we actually do have
relationships with time, and howimpactful that is in the way
that we get through the day, inthe way that we talk to
(05:49):
ourselves, in the way that wethink about life, and so I
wanted to find a way to sharesome time management strategies
that are kind of universal, thatare not prescriptive, but could
perhaps be foundational in that, should you begin to follow
these things that I'm going toshare with you and there's only
a couple they will help you finda path that you can then tailor
(06:12):
to your own needs through thatexploration.
Right, and so the first thingthat I want you to think about
is this question what is yourrelationship with time?
And what I mean by that is doyou consistently run late when
you prep for things?
Do you always need a few lastminutes to get something truly
ready?
When you're working onsomething, do you lose track of
(06:32):
time, does time fly, does itdrag?
Or do you consistently findyourself running out of time to
do the work in the time that youallotted for a certain frame of
time or do you have a good gripon measuring how much time
things are going to take?
Right?
You time block an hour to do aproject or a piece of a project
(06:53):
and, like, four hours later, youstill haven't gotten to that
milestone for the day.
One of the biggest things thatcomes up when we talk about goal
setting is identifying how muchtime you actually have to do a
thing and then how much time youthink something's actually
going to take to do right, andit's an eye-opening experience
to discover where those twointersect.
(07:16):
Right, because they very rarelyfit together, because we always
think we have more time or thatsomething is going to take less
time than it actually does.
And the key here is that we allhave patterns here, and taking
the time maybe a few days, maybea week to identify your
patterns.
This will give you a roadmap tomove ahead.
(07:36):
Often, when we run into troublewith time management, it can be
because we also struggle withprioritizing our tasks, and this
is one of those things that Ireally struggled with when I was
younger and even now, when Iget stressed, it is still the
one place where I can beguaranteed to slip up, and for
(07:56):
me that's prioritizing, becausewhen I get stressed, everything
looks like a priority.
So, for example, I'll beworking on something like
project A and because I'mfeeling stressed or for whatever
reason I'm having stress, Iwill start to get distracted.
Because then I procrastinate,because I get you know, the
stress piece wants me to notwork anymore and I'll do
(08:17):
something like checking email,for example, or checking my
texts, and as soon as somethingcomes in where somebody else
needs something from me, I willdrop whatever it is that I'm
doing, I will stop working onproject A and I will take care
of whatever it is that I can do.
You know, quote, unquote realquick, because I know in the
moment that I can get that done.
(08:39):
And it's like this dopamine hitand I know that this is a
symptom, right, because I haveidentified that pattern for
myself.
So when I see myself doing that, I can pull myself back.
But that was not always thecase.
So that's where the value comesin in tracking what you're
doing.
But it is, it's something thatcomes up often, and so my next
(08:59):
question for you is what is yourrelationship with prioritizing?
I think the ability toprioritize things is an
underrated skill.
That is actually vital, becauseif you're not able to
prioritize the way that youspend your time, then you can't
actually make reliable plans.
I mean, think about it.
There are a lot of tools thatyou can use for prioritizing and
(09:22):
, like everything else, it's soeasy to get lost in all the
options.
Right, there's, like thisincredible, not even a buffet.
It's like a never endingassembly line of time and task
management tools out there.
But one of the easiest to learnis something called the Covey
Quadrants, created by StevenCovey.
(09:42):
The Covey Quadrants are a lotlike the Eisenhower matrix, and
I will put a link to that in theshow notes so that you can see
what I'm talking about.
But the Eisenhower matrixfocuses on the urgency of tasks,
where the Covey Quadrants focuson time in addition to the
importance of things.
So basically, what you do isyou draw out a big square and
(10:05):
you dissect it with a plus sign.
So you have four quadrants andquadrant number one is urgent
and important and you have noturgent and important.
Then you have urgent and notimportant, and not urgent and
not important, and these thingsgo across in a matrix.
So they're like you have onecolumn marked urgent, one column
marked important, one mark noturgent, one mark not important.
(10:27):
And then the cross sections arewhere things get identified,
and what you're supposed to dois identify all the things that
you need to do and then you dropthem into one of these four
boxes based on their urgency andtheir importance.
And it sounds really simple,because it is right, but the
process of doing this isactually quite illuminating,
(10:48):
because you identify right awaywhether or not you can identify
something as being urgent versusimportant, because those are
different things, right, likeeverything is urgent if you
can't prioritize, everything isimportant if you can't
prioritize.
So this is a really simpleexercise that you can use,
(11:09):
because it can be a goodstarting point for figuring out
where to go from here, and Ithink that quite often we get
into this analysis paralysiswhen it comes to using all these
different tools out there, andso this is not something that
needs purchasing.
You don't need to sign up foranything.
It's a piece of paper, it's awhiteboard and a pen.
You make a square and you drawthe diagram and you start
(11:31):
filling in the boxes using thethings that have to be done that
are on your plate right now.
From there, you can then moveforward and say you know what.
I did not really have a hardtime identifying which went
where.
I had a problem with tracking,which brings me to my next
question, which is how do youkeep track of it all?
This is an area that can trip alot of us up to, because this
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is the tools and the apps andthe schedulers and the calendars
and all the different thingsthat we actually do need to stay
on track, to stay focused, toprioritize and just to stay on
time.
So one thing that a lot ofcoaches share is their toolkit.
Right, here's the list ofthings that I use to get through
the day, with all of my toolson it and links to, you know,
check them out and those thingscan be really helpful if you're
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struggling.
But again, you know, the toolsthat I list on my toolkit might
not be tools that work for you,they might not resonate with the
way that you work, they mightnot be solutions for you, and
you know.
So there's this rabbit holepotential that you could fall
into with trying to figure outhow does Karin do it, how does
this person do it, how does thatperson do it.
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I want to emulate theirpractice.
You know that only goes as faras it goes, because if it
doesn't resonate with you,you're not going to stick with
it, and if you don't stick withit, it's not going to work.
So that's why the things thatI'm sharing in this episode are
really kind of like the zoom out.
They're the large picture view,the universal foundational
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pieces that you need for timemanagement so that you can start
here and then you can inchforward, but you'll have a
foundation from which to workeffectively.
You have to be really carefulwith the shiny object syndrome
when it comes to other people'sprocesses, and you know I really
I don't think I stress thisenough, because it's one of
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those things.
I mean, I have fallen victim toit as well Like I want the most
affection, I want the mosteffective, I want the thing
that's going to solve all myproblems.
And you know what?
There isn't a one size fits allfor anything.
So we have to eyeball whatother people are doing, be aware
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of what else is out there, youknow, try things on and then see
, because only when we determinethat they are actually working
for us are they worth anythingto us.
You know, full stop, becausewhen it comes right down to it,
I think you need a place to keeptrack of your stuff and you
need a place to keep track ofyour appointments.
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Like for me, I use the fullfocus planner, which is a paper
planner, and I use GoogleCalendar.
Those two things keep me going.
They're very, very simple and Idon't have 400 different pieces
of things to keep track of inthe world.
Do I have other things?
Yes, I have things likeCalendly, asana and Evernote,
but those things are kind ofsupplemental.
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If I were going to go on a trip, I would bring my device that
has all of my Google and I wouldbring my paper planner, my full
focus planner.
Those two things alone give meaccess to my Gmail and my
calendar and my paper planner.
That's all I need to getthrough.
So I think that we need tosimplify, we need to find the
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lowest common denominator.
What is the simplest thing thatI can do to get back on track
with time and task management,organizing my time and
organizing my time, and that'sit.
I think that we tend toovercomplicate things,
especially in the areas wherewe're struggling, and I think
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that if we just give ourselvespermission to make it easy, we
can demystify a lot of thethings that we struggle with,
because I think the tendency isto try to overcomplicate things
because we think it needs to behard and it actually really,
really doesn't, and this is oneof those places where it really
doesn't need to be.
So, again, we all workdifferently, our brains work
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differently, our skill sets comefrom different places, our
comfort level with technologyversus paperworking.
We're all unique, right?
We're all individual people,and so it's really important to
keep track of what you're doing.
Try things on, stick with whatworks and jettison the things
that don't work, but giveyourself permission to stop
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looking once you find somethingthat feels like it's working for
you.
You know that said, the thingsthat I have shared here I think
are universally important tofinding your way, because you
need to understand yourrelationship with time, you need
to learn how to prioritize yourtime and you need to find a way
to keep track of everything ina way that is effective for you.
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That's it.
There's three things, guys Time, priorities for your tasks and
keeping track of it Full stop.
That's it.
So that's all I have for youthis week.
Thank you so much for listeningand I will catch you next time.
And remember part of being acalm entrepreneur is developing
the systems, habits and know-howthat lets you know that you are
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the one in the driver's seatfor your business.
You get to choose how you thinkand you get to choose how you
work.
So you got this, my friends.
Thank you for listening.
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