Hey, this is Anne with Your Coaching On The Go. 

We keep digging into the schedule. 

What have you discovered? 

If you haven’t done it, you need to because will be digging into it for days. 

Just to review, last week, several days ago, you started looking into the minutes of your calendar.

If you think this is too analytical for you, please bear with me. 

It’s analytical for me too. 

There’s a reason though. 

There’s a method. 

There’s a method to the madness. 

There’s a reason for it. 

So you do it wherever you need to.

Do it in your calendar or on a scrap sheet.

Set an alarm on your phone. 

Take notes on how you spend your time. 

It’s not good enough to say, “I worked from nine to five.” 

I want a breakdown of your efficiency. 

Look into your day and keep fine-tuning this. 

I know now from starting this about a month ago, where my breakdowns are. 

For me, it’s dependent on how you see your schedule and what you see as valuable. 

But I see, and I’ve brought this up before, I see my screen time on the phone as a time waster. 

It’s worse than TV for me.

Binge-watching a show like The Crown or something can also be a waste of time. 

I can go to sit on the couch to have some dinner, and pretty soon it could be three episodes later. 

You get to decide what that is for you. 

What’s the time waster? 

Where do you get sucked in and time bends in the wrong direction for you? 

I already know what that is. 

So when I start going towards that, part of me is having an out-of-body experience where I’m watching myself go for it.

I’m entering that zone. 

It’s easy for me now to keep track of that. 

If I choose to go in and play there for a certain amount of

time, I’m setting a time limit. 

I am cognizant from doing the daily audit of where my time wastes are, of the side-tracking I do when I’m working on something. (when it starts getting hard)

We all have certain tendencies. 

I know what my tendencies are now. 

They get flagged right away. 

I notice. 

You are doing the detailed work of noting your blocks of time. 

Now look within those blocks.

Are you spending an hour doing that thing or two hours doing that thing? 

Did you start doing it and then start answering some emails on the side? 

Do you get a phone call for 25 minutes?

Did you start looking out the window and pretty soon were daydreaming?

Someone interrupted you and you didn’t stay on task after tellin  them you would talk with them after you were done.

The reason that we’re working on this is that it starts to direct you further and further into the refinement of time. 

When you have someone come in while you’re working, and normally you would have taken that interruption, you realize now how long it takes to get back into your work. 

You may be developing some habits:

-Ignoring calls

-Telling people that you work without interruption until a certain time

-Creating a message that auto-answers and tells people you’re available at a certain time

This will allow you to come up with resourceful ways. 

Now, a lot of us can get distracted. 

I have several clients who report being ADD. 

And I’ve wondered about that myself, very easily distracted. 

And then I wonder if it’s a habit of allowing myself to be distracted, or what it is

Whatever it is, (you and) I get to create structures to support myself. 

Sometimes those structures are medical, and sometimes those structures are structural, sometimes they are habitual.

Whatever it is for you, we are rolling up our sleeves to discover. 

There’s no right or wrong in anything.

We’re on a discovery path that never ends. 

It’s an engaging path of investigation that never ends in this life.

And it probably never, ever ends. 

You’re looking into your calendar.

You have been making notations, color coding with highlighters, and breaking things into clusters.

You are looking at the areas in your calendar that aren’t valuable, that you find to be time-wasting, and analyzing that.

How can you maximize it? 

What can you do with it? 

What are some strategies that you can come up with that will allow you to be the most efficient? 

Take what you’ve noted, analyze it, and decide what areas you want to tweak?

Do you want to make some bigger, or smaller? 

Do you want to get rid of some? 

Do you want to structure some in a different way so they are more productive?

Ideally, what you want to get to in the calendar is that whatever you are doing, you are all in on it, not sidetracked.

When you’re playing, you’re playing.

You are all in on play. 

When you are working, you’re limiting your distractions. 

You’re all in on the work.

The theory of the five-hour workday is that if you get efficient enough, 3-5 hours is all you’ll need.

You’ll be so productive, you’ll have two hours here, and then you’ll be taking a walk.

You’ll have another hour. 

Maybe you’ll take lunch or a nap in another two hours, and you’ll be fresh when you approach those tasks.

You won’t be confining yourself to a chair for blocks of hours that are not even proven to be productive for human beings. 

All right. 

Time analysis continues, the way we spend our time and what results from it.

You are working towards your Vision. 

All this is wrapped in the life that you want to have.

Keep doing the work.

Post on Facebook so you can communicate with each other.

Some of you are in one-on-ones. 

Some of you are in pods.

There is a group of you. 

There’s one spot where you can all be. 

And that’s my Facebook page. 

Sending you love.