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Peter Drucker once said “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else”
How is your management of time?
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Script | 403
Hello, and welcome to episode 403 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.
Are you in danger of boxing yourself in with too many processes and too much structure?
Now, it’s important to stress that having some structure to your day is important. But too much can lead to boxing yourself in and losing flexibility.
Let me give you an example I often come across. Protecting time for doing your focused work. Having this protected on your calendar so the time cannot be stolen by others is important.
If you protected 2 hours and finished in 90 minutes, that doesn’t mean you have to continue for another 30 minutes. Take a break. You’re done.
But this works the other way, too. If you have two hours protected for a project task but cannot finish it in that time. It’s okay. You turned up. You did the work, but you miscalculated how long it would take.
This happens to all of us. Some days we’re on fire and can plough through a lot of work. Other days, a lot less so.
The problem is that when you begin your day, you really don’t know what kind of day you’re going to have. There are too many variables. How you slept, whether you’re catching a cold or simply something else is on your mind.
Your life is not measured by what you do in one day; everyone has bad days.
So, with that said, let me hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week’s question.
This week’s question comes from Alex. Alex asks, hi Carl, this year I’m trying to be better at time blocking,
