Time management. It's pretty simple. You have to reclaim your day and minimize your distractions. If you want to have optimal health, you're not going to be able to wake up and meditate, sleep well eat well and do all kinds of fun stuff like that. If you can't prioritize your time, no one's going to give you another hour in the day you have to take something else away. In order to get that hour back.

Being on a regular routine is a key to any form of success. Sound familiar? training yourself. If you want to accomplish anything that I'm going to cover in the next two weeks, when we start dipping into nutrition, you know cooking any of the recipes that I gave you or anything like that, you're gonna have to have more time. You cannot have success in life living on someone else's agenda, someone else's agenda, his emails, social media, any fun stuff like that new little someone else's agenda that has been put into your life. You have control over those things.

So you wake up with tranquility unless you're using one of those crazy old school alarms. You wake up with tranquility, why can't you like continue that through the rest of your day? I understand things happen, let's say in the world is a perfect place and that we can be tranquil throughout the whole thing, even though we can. The news, social media, emails, text calls and all that other fun stuff, ruin your tranquility. Again, it's someone else's agenda that's being handed to you. So step one, analyze your time, make time to do this.

I had a mentor years ago, I went to I said, don't have time to do all these tasks. This is my schedule. Look at my calendar and I gave him my calendar. I said, you see the stuff I have to do. He said, great. I need to know when you're doing those things.

I need you to write down for a week exactly what you're doing every hour. I went. Are you insane? I just told you I don't have any time. How long I get a write down everything I'm doing. And he said, Well, if you want to prioritize your time, you have to do this.

So I did it begrudgingly. It's absolutely mind changing. If you want to do that for a week, like I'm here for you. So anytime you have questions, reach out to me, if you want over the next week to do like a time log or a journal of your day, and you want to send it to me, I can help you kind of group similar tasks and do the things that I'm going to give you like, that I give you on the next slide. I can help you kind of do those things because I've had to do it for myself and have done it for the last few years. The simple fact is that if you don't know where if you don't have a piece of paper going, Oh, I went to the grocery store and then I went to the grocery store again and then I went to the grocery store on Tuesday and then I did an exam on Thursday, then you you can't knock out that task that's wasted.

Your time if you don't see it on paper. Step two is to utilize your time wisely, wisely. Don't beat yourself up for falling off track. Just get back on course, again, it's progress, not perfection, it's never going to be perfect. beating yourself up does nothing other than make you feel horrible. And that's not what we want.

Somehow all these girls that I follow have families, they have jobs, they have more responsibility than I do. But yet they still seem to only have the same 24 hours that I do. mystery, isn't it? Not a mystery. They know how to manage their time, which is how I got a lot of this information, converted into this own my own system. Step one, detox from social media and TV.

Sometimes when I run this course, I actually make people go on news fast. It's painful for some people at first. The more you do it, the more you understand how it's affecting you. Psychologically the effects are endless, psychologically, hormonally, all kinds of things that I could go on for hours and I won't. They're controlling you with what they want you to think and feel that's their job. be standing here right now is trying to get you hopefully to feel like you want to make a change and think that you can.

Social media news. That's no different. Social media, I have a lot of friends who are like, Yeah, I do social media, but I only do it for my business. It's not set up for businesses, not called business media. It's called social media. They don't want you doing business on social media.

I promise you I have studied the algorithms on Facebook, on Twitter on all those channels. They're not meant for that unless you're paying for it because they are a business. So it's not set up for that. So use it for social media if you want to, but remember, it's for a social purposes and not businesses. If you are a business or small business owner, you want to build tribes through emails and physical interactions. be physically interactive with your people, not necessarily just emails, your email list, you own social media you don't own not, you sign a disclaimer, when you go on there saying you're gonna do this, that and the other and a bunch of other stuff that you don't ever read.

You own your email list and your physical interactions with people. Most people watch four to five hours of TV a day. That's a lot of time wasted on TV. A lot of people I know don't spend four or five hours on TV, but they will spend that difference in social media or on you know, some kind of news stream or something. Minimize phone triggers. These are just reasons.

We call them reasons. Isn't that cute? They're just excuses to remain distracted from being in the moment. Shut off the notifications that are on your phone. A lot of phones automatically are set to push notifications. When you sign up for an app, they want you to push notifications, because they want you to know when you have a light because it's that dope.

I mean, just all kinds of fun stuff. turn them off. It's just a distraction to you. Be honest about how often you check your phone and why don't beat yourself up for it. Just be aware of it. That's the first step.

And then why are you doing is it because you're bored? Okay, cool. Like sometimes I'll check my phone at work because there's literally nothing else for me to do. I have to kill five minutes. And I can't get mentally involved in something that's going to be more taxing than that. So yeah, okay, maybe I look on, you know, Google and I look at a medical journal or something silly like that, but I can read in five minutes.

Each click is a decision you can make on something more important later down the road. There's research that indicates your brain can only make so many decisions per day. By the end of the day, you're pretty spent on making a decision right? You get home husband's like, what do you want for dinner now? Like, I don't know, I can't decide you pick because you've exhausted the amount of decisions that you have. And every time you click, you're making a decision.

Oh, I do want to see what that next article is click. You just made another decision. Oh, wait, what is this? Oh, wait, that just reminds me I gotta go do this. And now you you're in like this vortex is love to find a time management system. There are several ones out there.

Mind Mapping is one that I like. It's basically it's basically I think, like a flowchart is the best way I can describe it, you put something in the middle and it's actually mind Meister, I think is the name of the app that I have. There's something in the middle, and then you just put little branches off of it. And that says, okay, so I want to live a happy life. That means I have to eat well, that means I have to exercise that means I have to manage my time. And then on each of those section, you just make more little lines that says okay, I want to eat better, but what does that mean?

Oh, I have to eat more Whole Foods. I have to eat less Fat, oh, I need to exercise. So I'm gonna put a little line that says I'm going to exercise 10 minutes a day and then you just keep going from that. That's a form of a time management system. Wunderlist is another one. Awesome as another one I prefer Wunderlist.

I tried Asana doesn't really work as well. Wunderlist and Asana were actually programs applications that were created for offices so that multiple people could add tasks to it. Okay, this reports do so soon as he needs to do the table of contents. And this person needs to do this. So it assigns tasks to people, but like me, because I don't have that need. I just use it for, oh, I need to publish this book.

So what do I need to do? Well, I need to set up the table contents and I need to write the book and I need to do this and you can assign dates and times and all kinds of fun stuff like that. Your daily planner is your secret weapon. Again, we're going back to that Mind Hand saying if you're writing it in a daily planner, you're going over at number a little more More than that's your secret weapon to success. Follow the ABCDE protocol prioritize according to importance and saving time, if you don't write down how are you going to know what you have to do? And how are you going to know what's important and what's not important you just going to be living by someone else's agenda and what they tell you you need to do.

There are obviously always exceptions, your boss comes in and says, I need you to do this right now. Mine is infamous for doing it, we're doing something way more important than what he says we need to do. But that's not how it works. In your own world, though, you make that decision. So not giving away your morning to the news, etc, gives you time to plan your ABCD ease. And yes, I do actually recommend doing that daily so that you look at your list and go, Oh, this isn't a priority.

If I don't do this today, I think the house might burn down or I'm going to lose the children in the board somewhere. So we're going to do that of the priority means Okay, it's not really that bad. But it'd be really, really helpful if I do it See, and maybe not be delegated to somebody else eat, eliminate it, get it off your list because you're never going to do it. Scheduled blocks of time for similar tasks scheduled time out for learning new tasks or skills. Again, I know you're an adult, adult ed, you don't need to learn anymore. We always need to learn more.

So I do recommend scheduling time out for learning something new at the beginning of the year. I actually got this from Brendon Burchard there's I take a box and I break it into 12. And then I just write 12 big things that I would like to learn throughout the year. Now as fate always has it, I assigned them two months and then since I put it on paper the universe's Yeah, you're not going to learn that in July. You're going to learn that right now. But I also revisit that frequently to go Oh, oh, I'm falling really behind.

I've only actually learned one task this year and it's already July or one skill So it helps you with a list like you've made in step three that's prioritized that you did in step four. That's why they're in disorder allows you to group tasks like making calls writing and running errands. When you group similar tasks, it helps your brain perform those tasks faster and more efficiently. So if you're going to the grocery store and you're making a phone call, you're going to forget something at the grocery store, you're going to miss your exit, you're going to do something funky like that. You shouldn't be necessarily, you shouldn't be on call like driving. But you know, while you're in the store, it gets a little tricky too.

So you want to just do things in blocks of time schedule them, and then if you schedule them, you take it seriously and you do it and you get a lot more done. Take a break every 15 minutes as well. It's proven that our brains just kind of shut down a little bit after 15 minutes and we start losing attention span and you know it's harder to concentrate. So you want to get up every 15 minutes and stretch a little Move around all that kind of fun stuff. And now we're human. So your assignment is to sleep seven hours per night.

No excuses. I'm not here to give you excuses to not do or say it's not okay, I want you to feel better. So I want you to feel what it's like to sleep seven hours and like, be totally on course and all that fun stuff. If you miss one night of sleep, stuff happens, I get it. There are some nights like tonight, I'm not going to get home in time. Now, I'll probably still squeeze in my seven hours because it's not really that negotiable.

Actually, it's not negotiable for me at all. But there are some times that it's a little bit later than you want when you go to bed and you can't possibly sleep late. So that's fine. I'm not beating you up for that. And I totally get that just make it up somewhere else as quickly as possible because the longer you go, the less your body can actually catch up. So if you only get six hours one night, get eight hours the next night and kind of make that up.

Your body will thank you. So, discussion, any questions that you have or what may hold you back from completing this exercise this week.