Create more time by allocating it better
Do you allocate time to the day-to-day running of your business tasks? Do you feel overwhelmed by the things that need to be done but can't find the time?
In this video, I go through the way I manage to juggle everything I need to do and also have more than enough time to focus on myself by breaking up my day.
Transcript
so hello sorry the video is a bit late
it's a quarter past five right now I'm
recording this but I've actually been
coaching I've had a few coaching
sessions today so I haven't had a chance
to actually do the video so doing a
video now one thing that came up with
these coaching sessions was the time
factor how much time you spend on
specific tasks within your business
so obviously you know working on your
own you wear multiple hats here a
marketer you're a doer your email your
you pretty much do everything so you're
wearing a lot of hats in your business
but do you actually allocate times now
in the past I created a video called
time blocking sucks and I still stand by
that and I like I spoke to Paul minors
about because he does time clock he saw
the video we made a follow-up to that
video where we discussed the pros and
cons for time blocking now I'm not for
time blocking don't get me wrong but I'm
not actually against it depending on how
you do it so I recently did a video
about how I allocate time and I really
don't want to call it time blocking
because I don't like time blocky
time blocking to me basically it what
what it entails is that your calendar is
dictating your time now the whole point
of what I do is to be able to free up my
time so I don't want to block so much
time where I can't do anything I can't
play anything in yes I understand you
can move things around but the less
headaches and less steps and processes
you you that you need to do within a day
gives your time or your clients your
time so you can focus more on the actual
work so I break up my time
into three parts throughout the day now
if nothing happens within that chunk of
time then I do something else whether
it's for myself whether it's marketing
whether it's walking the dog or whatever
it is basically I don't shoehorn things
into my time and why am I talking about
this as I said earlier the the topic
came up with with the three sessions I
had two there were three different
people about how they allocate their
time and each one of them actually said
actually I don't and a funny thing is
nor did I until relatively recently in
the past few months where I started
allocating parts of the time or or
breaking up my day into what I do within
that day and that has enabled me to
focus on the particular task whether
it's me working on my business whether
it's working with clients or emailing or
whatever I allocate specific parts of
the day to specific types of tasks so
they now know what I'm doing as I said
if nothing comes in for that day no
emails come in which is doubtful or no
bookings for sessions come in or
whatever then I just do something else
I don't reallocate as it were I don't
add anything in I just do something else
I want to have free time for me for
whatever that is so the common factor
was I don't do anything and it's
interesting for three different people
in the same day and as I said I'm not
wonderful being told what to do
especially by calendar to do lists is
something else but my calendar
and so having that free time just
enables you to do whatever you want and
that's the whole point of what I call
tech minimalism is to get rid of the
technology get rid of the things that's
in your path that disable you to have
your own time for whatever you want to
do anyway I hope that's a that's helpful
to you if you have any questions about
this or any other topic about tech
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anyway enjoy the rest of the day quick
video is now 1722 have a great day and
I'll see you tomorrow ciao