Happy Thursday, friends!
We’re hanging out in the Baltimore airport getting ready to board a flight for our weekend getaway to Connecticut and New York. It’s been on our bucket list for a while to see the changing fall leaves of the northeast, and we’re almost there! Today, though, we want to take just a minute to chat with you about something we haven’t always been good at — but are starting to be more intentional about — and it’s doing incredible things for our daily productivity in our business: time management.
That blew our mind
And you know what? It worked.
We got more done in those two hours than we did the entire day before. THE ENTIRE DAY! Now, does that mean we stopped after two hours of work and called it a day? No, of course not! But re-wiring our brains to work like that every day (we slip-up sometimes and fall back into our old habits) has allowed us to do one of two things most of the time:
1. Get our daily “to-do” list done in two hours and start on our long-term goals and projects the rest of the day. This is HUGE for us because, for so long, we felt like we couldn’t get ahead. We were always working IN our business and never felt like we had time to work ON our business.
2. This one happens less, but sometimes things come up and we need to take half a day off work for family or friends or something else. When we’re diligent in those few hours of precious work that we do have, it gives us the flexibility to either take care of everything first thing in the morning and then head out for the day without feeling guilty, or get things tidied up at night if we can’t get to our computers during the day.
Okay, so here’s our challenge to you, friends: keep track of how you’re spending your time for a few days, and then, a few days from now, make a list of everything you want/need to get accomplished that day (keep it realistic), then sit down distraction-free and burn through it. No Facebook. No Instagram. No text conversations. No personal emails. Nothing that doesn’t have to do (as military men might say) with the mission. Then, see how much more you’re able to get done, and how much EXTRA TIME you have to work ON your business or just take time off to BE with your family!
Good luck, friends! We hope this helps you like it did us!
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