Get the top 4 most effective time management strategies you can start today to help you and your team stay focused on the big picture.

Summary: Effective Time Management Strategies

Get the top 4 most effective time management strategies you can start today to help you and your team stay focused on the big picture.

This episode is great for personal productivity, within your small business, or even for teams looking to boost their focus.

• Learn why busy is not the same as productive
• Why conducting a time audit is critical
• Tools you can use to conduct a time audit
• How (and why!) minimizing multi-tasking is a MUST
• Why taking breaks can improve your time management
• When to plan your week so you can say "no" when you have to

Words of Wisdom

We work on tasks that keep us in the busy-ness and not engaged with our largest biggest goals. — Jen

Resources Mentioned

• How to Stop Confusing Busy with Productive (includes information about our brains and multitasking)
• Time management apps: Todoist and Toggl (both apps have free versions you can use for a simple time audit)
• Mike Tyson's face tattoo (more an FYI than a resource)

Show Notes

[1:19] - Steps to Manage your time better

[2:21] - Step 1 - Time Audit

[3:16] - What a Time Audit really does.

[3:39] - Track time using Spreadsheet or Paper or ToDoist or Toggl

[4:41] - Mike Tyson's Tattoo and Anderson Coopers Boyfriend

[5:40] - Step 2 - Minimize multitasking to become more productive

[6:23] - Only 2.5% of people can multitask - Link.

[6:32] - Stanford researchers say that multitasking, overtaxes our brain and prevents us from concentrating - Link

[8:41] - Step 3 - Taking breaks and Pomodoro Technique

[10:26] - Brain can maintain concentration for 90 minutes

[11:06] - Step 4 - Plan your work week in advance

[12:06] - Knock out the most important during your most productive time (mornings for most)

[13:27] - Saying "No" based on the week’s workload mapped out completely

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