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067 | 3 Ways To Protect Your Time
Category: Health
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2020-04-14 05:00:00
Description: YOUR TIME NEEDS PROTECTING. Time is THE MOST important in my opinion. It’s one of the only things in life we don’t get back. I don’t say that to be dramatic, rather realistic. When it comes to relationships, goals, rest and anything valuable to you, I encourage you to focus on learning to protect your time. You have choices. And those choices often either include you being in control of how your time is used or you allowing others to dictate how your time is used. Because that is the truth - yes, there are always things that will happen outside of your control. That’s life. But far too often, I think people allow other people and circumstances to use up their time when they’d rather be using it otherwise. That’s the real topic of today - how to lead with decisions that feed how you ACTUALLY want to use your time. And this WILL inevitably cause you to get uncomfortable because it means saying no to people, turning down invitations, and having people question you. THAT can be a very hard reality for some people. You don’t want to disappoint, or feel awkward, or have someone else feel awkward. But you are not responsible for the way your NO makes someone else FEEL. That’s in their backpack, not yours. More on that later. So, just know that protecting your time sounds fancy, and liberating. But it’s not easy, and you may offend loved ones and friends in the process. Just a heads up. Now, let’s get into the three ways you can start protecting your time. And in protecting your time - creating more freedom, space, and clarity for you. To reach goals, create goals, or just do whatever the heck you want to with it! Number one… SET & EMBRACE BOUNDARIES As an entrepreneur and someone who has taken training very seriously over the years, learning to set boundaries around my time has been monumental for reaching goals and staying on course. And this is not something I am naturally good at. I don’t know that anyone is naturally good at this to be honest. I can imagine for moms, protecting your time is HUGE. By default, part of your time is simply NOT YOURS. This is also why I tell single women to chase their freaking dreams with everything they have while there is no significant other or small humans to consider in that process. It’s the optimal time to be selfish. So I encourage it heavily. That’s not to say you can’t chase dreams and goals in a relationship or while raising kids, but it would be naive and borderline ignorant to think it’s the same as doing so without having other people to consider. As moms, you have the demands of other humans whose survival literally depends on you. So, protecting the small amount of time you get yourself can be a game changer. I also want to point out this doesn’t have to be bath tub time or self pamper time. It’s just saying you’re going to spend X amount time doing Y and then setting boundaries to protect that relationship with yourself and your time. So whatever it is that YOU want to do with YOUR TIME - that’s what I am referring to. So, how do we set boundaries around our time? First off, you can’t have a boundary if you don’t know what you’re keeping in and out of bounds right? And side note - you’ll find that all three of these “ways to protect your time” overlap and can be used together. For setting and embracing boundaries - you’ll need to come up with the actual boundaries. If you work for yourself, this is stopping work at a certain time, or perhaps dedicating a certain amount of hours to work per week. For anyone - this could be sleeping with your phone in a different room. In relationships this could be how much time you give a certain person per week or per day depending on the relationship. How much time you give to a certain task within that relationship. Play with this. There is no boundary to boundaries. You have time, and you’re simply deciding what is a yes and what is a no for that.
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