How can I protect my time so I focus on my priorities?

How can I protect my time so I focus on my priorities?

This is the most common complaint I get from women in my leadership platform. You make a plan, but are easily distracted or too tired to follow through. Some incident hijacks your whole day.

How do you structure your time? When I left my full time job, the prospect of being an entrepreneur felt overwhelming. I desperately needed a system.

Then I found one:

Step 1: I mapped out my week Monday through Thursday and the existing commitments.

• Working out 6am-7am.
• Standing weekly meetings (Tuesday 8am-11am Thursday 7am-10am.)
• Events Friday (6-9pm).
• Travel time to those meetings (5-6pm).

Step 2: Then I blocked out time for the priorities. If I worked from 7-3 on Mondays, I could 8 hours of deep work. If worked from 11-4 on Tuesdays, that would be 5 hours of deep work. I used the app "Peak Time " to determine the peak hours of my day when I am most productive

Step 3: Then I wrote down all the factors that could sabotage Step 2. It's important to protect for the emotional downsides.

• Problem: Too tired. Solution: Get to bed earlier. Create a wind down ritual.
• Problem: Pre-existing script "I don't deserve to have the things I want." Solution: Record my affirmations into the Thinkup app. and listen to the opposite of this statement first thing in the morning when my subconscious is most open to being rewired and just before bed.
• Problem: Overwhelm. What do I tackle first? Solution: Plan the work the night before. Put out all the materials I need to tackle the task at hand. The next day, work the plan.

Step 4: I mapped out a progression plan on paper. I couldn't adopt all of Steps 1-3 in one week. That's a recipe for disaster. I phased in each activity week by week.

One of my most effective ways to diffuse overwhelm and anxiety is to plan as I would plan a news broadcast. These are techniques I teach in my Samita Lab Mastermind. 2022 is already filled. If you would like to enroll in 2023, apply here.

My name is?Joya?Dass. I made my living as a television news anchor for 20 years. Very specifically, I covered the financial markets from the floor of the?New?York Stock Exchange. I had no scripts. Just a piece of paper in front of me. I had to 'get up and talk' based on the information on the screens around me.

Impromptu.

If you are a woman leader, who has just come into a new leadership role and you find people throwing you up on the podium and in front of groups to give talks, impromptu, I have a solution. Next Tuesday and Thursday, I'll teach three critical steps to take so you can be more confident the next time you get up to speak. I"ll also take your questions live and do some laser coaching.?Come join me next Tuesday March 29th 12-1pm EST.

Can't make it? I'll do it again?Thursday March 31st 12-1pm EST.

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The speaker of the week is Morra Aarons-Mele

Common wisdom says business success requires getting out in public and staying there. You must do deals. You must network and press the flesh. You must eat lunch every day with someone important. You must speak at seminars and conferences. The same common wisdom says that the people who get ahead have brilliant personalities and megawatt smiles. They seldom sleep. They exhibit admirable “grit.” They are extroversion superstars.

But our speaker this Wednesday says there is another way to go.

Extreme introvert and business owner Morra Aarons-Mele offers strategies that can help an introvert work through a business day successfully.

March 30th 12pm EST

THE ANXIOUS LEADER: TURN YOUR ANXIETY INTO AN IMPORTANT BUSINESS ASSET

Or

March 31st 4pm EST

Entrepreneurs Roundtable: "Made for More" – Step Into the 'She You Need to Be' as CEO