Hey, it’s Anne with your Coaching on the Go. 

This week I am talking with you about time…

-What you do with your time

-If you’re focused in the moment in time

-If you are sidetracking, multitasking, doing too many things at once

-When you are recreating, you’re thinking about work

What are you doing with your time? 

A few weeks ago in another leadership group that I’m connected to, we took the time to start assessing our time, keeping notes on it, on the hour on a little notepad.

I challenge you to do this. 

It’s extremely revealing. 

What I discovered was I wasn’t working as much as I thought I was some days. 

Other days I was working much more than I thought I was. 

Often I was multitasking while working, distracted by my phone buzzing or dinging with notifications, or emails popping up.

I realized a lot of things about the way I work. 

It was revealing. 

I’m committed, with this group of people, to consistently keeping track of our time, not just for a week, but continuing on and on. 

Right now, with the data for the week, I’ve been able to see what are skill sets I’m benefiting from in my schedule. 

What I’ve discovered for myself so far is when I’m not multitasking, when I actually set certain times for me to do certain things and when I’m not thinking about other things, I’m not letting myself get distracted, when I’m working, I’m working. when I’m not working, I am not working, when I’m relaxing, I am relaxing. 

Sift through your schedule this week. 

Find out what you’re doing. 

Set an alarm for every hour. 

Know what you’re doing. 

Know what you actually get done. 

Find some things out. 

I’m connected with someone I really respect and admire, a very, very successful businessman who came up from nothing to selling his first business for $105 million. 

And he has already sold, I think he’s on his seventh business right now. 

One of the concepts that he teaches is the five-hour workday. 

He tasked us with tending to what we do every day. 

I want you to do the same thing. 

If you want to look him up, Trevor Blake, you can discover. 

He’s a fascinating human being who deals with the things we deal with here: the quantum field, your energy, how you put energy out, how you visualize, how you create, with your thinking, and then your BE-ing and your Do-ing. 

We have been discussing in the last couple of weeks, the five-hour workday. 

When I went to Maine with my partner recently, we discovered that even after one day of completely relaxing, we were positive we had been relaxing for three days. 

It was time-bending.

The ability to focus on what you’re doing is so important to the quality of what you’re getting done. 

So, here’s a question for you. 

Why would you multitask or think about three or four things at once, if you could think about each one and be exceptional at it in the time that you’ve allowed for it? 

You’d be exceptional at relaxing when you’re relaxing. 

You’d be exceptional and efficient when you’re working and connected with people and you’re not sidetracked by your phone or other things.

You’d have quality visits.

If you could do that, why wouldn’t you? 

So this week, a couple of things:

-Keep track of your time. 

-Note it. 

-See how much time you are spending on work, play, relaxation, eating, thinking, and sleeping. 

-Take notes on it. 

-Analyze it. 

Also, when you are doing things you have listed on your calendar, make sure you are not multitasking. 

Purely do the thing that you’re sitting down to do and finish it. 

When you have scheduled time for relaxation or fun or reading or drawing or painting or running, do that without sidetracking.

Do it purely. 

This week is a discovery of how you use time and using time in an essential way, not diluting any of the things you have on your schedule by doing more than one at once. 

Do the task at hand, 

Or the relaxation at hand, 

Or the eating and dining at hand. 

Do it purely and see how that feels. 

Sending you big love.