Time management isn’t just a school skill, it’s a forever skill.

Everything in your life - your hobbies, relationships, career, finances, health - it all depends on how you manage your time. And yet, most of us are never truly taught how.

Don’t blame your parents. (At least not for this. ;)) Society has evolved so quickly over the last few generations that what “busy” used to look like to your grandparents would feel like a vacation day to most of us now.

When you’re in survival mode, experimenting with your schedule doesn’t feel doable.

When you’re surrounded by demands for your attention and energy, saying “no” and taking time for yourself doesn’t feel responsible.

I get it. Sharpening the time-management-saw is a challenge. But it is possible, and it is so very important.

If you’ve joined us for the August is for Education series, you’ve joined the 1% of the 1% of people who are making it a priority to manage one of their most precious resources. I’m so proud of you!!

This forever skill will literally change your life:

  August 31 - Time management is a "forever" skill

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Time isn’t just minutes on the clock - it’s literally your life.

Every moment you spend is a moment lived, and it’s true that we can’t get those moments back.

No one is served by living with a scarcity mindset or being anxious about time, but the reality is that time does have boundaries.

When you plan your goals and fit them into your daily actions, you intentionally design your life.

When you decide:

• what you’re going to do

• schedule a time to do it

• and follow through

that’s you, making your life happen, in real-time.

My goal as a coach is to help you stop treating time like an endless resource and start using it in ways that bring you both success and satisfaction. When you plan your life with purpose, and live it with balance, you make every moment count.

Take control of your time this term:

  August 30th - This is literally your life

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Stop trying to pack every minute of your day full!

The old advice of “do things faster so you can do more” is a big thumbs down. You weren’t born so you could pack your days full of work and chores!

Instead, when you focus on doing less of what doesn’t bring you value, and yes, making work and chores more efficient, you free up time to do all the things. All what things? The things you love. The things you want!

If you need permission to give yourself some free time, here it is.

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Give yourself the space to schedule free time for whatever you actually want to do. It’s YOUR time. YOU make the rules. Work when you need to, play when you want to, and stop feeling guilty for enjoying your life.

Take control of your time this term:

  August 29th - You don't have to pack your days full

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Striving for high-quality work IS important. BUT…

Spending hours perfecting one section of an assignment while other parts go unpolished, or getting too locked in to one assignment and neglecting another, isn’t productive.

Despite all your hard work, in the end, you don’t win.

A more useful strategy is to understand what is “good enough” and set that as your goal.

Knowing what’s “good enough” lets you:

• meet all the requirements of your assignments, across the board

• keep your work consistent and complete

• finish on time without unnecessary stress

When you strive for “good enough,” you ensure your projects are evenly complete and avoid burning precious time and energy on unrewarded perfectionism.

Not to mention the hits from consistently completing tasks. Ding! Done! Dopamine!

Good enough gets things done:

  August 28th - Decide what's "good enough"

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