018: Cushioning Your Time: Build Buffers Into Your Life
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes life can be unexpected, and the only way we can prepare for that is by creating and building in cushions to our time so that we can slow down and do our best. In today's episode, I'll go over how and why we need to stop underestimating our time and instead adjust to it. Once we have these cushions, or buffers, in place we will stop wasting time and money and start giving ourselves the space to plan.
What's In This Episode:
• How to build in buffers to your life.
• Real-life examples of how buffers allow you to adjust to unexpected events.
• Why sometimes it's not the best idea to be overly optimistic.
• How to calculate the time it will actually take you to complete a task.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at Inquilpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:19.8 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 18. |
| 0:28.6 | Today, we are going to be talking about cushioning your time and creating buffers for |
| 0:33.6 | yourself. |
| 0:34.7 | As you know, season two is all about streamlining. So you might be thinking to |
| 0:39.9 | yourself, what does this have to do with streamlining? But streamlining isn't just about taking |
| 0:45.5 | things off of your plate. It's really about creating the right size plate for the items you want |
| 0:51.4 | to put on it. And that's where cushioning your time comes in, |
| 0:54.6 | because it's going to help us figure out what we can actually fit on our plates. So when it comes |
| 1:00.3 | down to our priorities and the things we want to spend our time on, we can accurately get our |
| 1:06.0 | plate set exactly the way we want it. So the only thing that we know we can expect in life is the unexpected. |
| 1:14.2 | Cushions and buffers are going to help us with that because we can either react in the moment |
| 1:20.4 | when it comes or we can prepare by creating these buffers. And a buffer is literally defined as something that prevents two things from coming into contact and harming one another. |
| 1:33.3 | And the problem is we want to think of our timelines for our goals and our projects as the room of requirement. |
| 1:41.3 | That no matter what, the timeline will somehow magically work. |
| 1:46.1 | It will expand to fit our estimates, even if we've dramatically underestimated our time. |
| 1:52.7 | We feel like we should be able to achieve everything, even when it's not realistic. |
| 1:58.7 | And it's not that you need to adjust your goals. It's really about |
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