The best tip for the best week!

Clients, friends and relatives daily share their challenge of not having time to do what they want.

If I could bottle and sell ‘time’, I would be wealthier than Warren Buffet and Bill Gates combined.

Prioritize

Are you respecting and managing your most valuable resource though?
If not, it’s time to start. You start with prioritization.

Current reality: you only have 24hrs a day, 7days a week, 52weeks a year.
To master all, you have to work within these boundaries to achieve what you want and need.

How do you do it if everyone says: ‘I can never “find” time for anything.’
If you want time, you must make it!

Start making it

The best tip and tool I discovered and use is “The Ideal Week” and it has transformed many of my clients and my own life too.

What makes your ideal week?

It’s having that great feeling of accomplishments at the end of the week – feeling genuinely proud of yourself for ticking the boxes you wanted.
Accomplishments start with planning.
No planning though will end in weekly disappointment.

Lets start:

Step 1 (the fun stuff)

List the things you want to achieve every week – your weekly non-negotiable. Include, in order of importance, your priorities: visiting friends, yoga, grocery shopping, Wednesday movie-night, 15 billable hours per week, $5,000 weekly turnover, date-night, ‘you-time’ and time with the kids.
This step is crucial and sets the pace of your life and career. It is worth the investment to ensure your heart and mind are in sync. Working with a coach here can ensure your success.

Step 2 

Get a blank weekly calendar with 30min time slots.
Plot your priorities from step 1 into the blank canvas.
Start with waking up and bedtime.
You will “on paper” either have enough time each week or realize you are over committing. If you are over committing, back to step 1 and remove the least of your importants.

Step 3

Implement step 2 into your actual time schedule.
You now have a structure and foundation to work within. If you stick to it, you have a great new habit plus you will have a great week every week.
If it doesn’t work, change and adjust it until it works. 
Remember each person’s plan will look differently.
Guaranteed if you give this tool the time it deserves you will reap the rewards.

Spend your time

As Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandburg said: “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

Now. Go. Enjoy spending your time!