059: Being Protective of Your Time

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Time is best spent on the things that are important to you and your goals. Today, I’m discussing the importance of protecting your time and how you can track where you spend yours. After today’s episode, you’ll have the tips and tools needed to go from multitasking and feeling distracted to monotasking, understanding your peak productivity blocks and owning your time.

What’s In This Episode:

Activity + Rest: The difference and importance of your circadian rhythm and ultradian rhythm.
Why we need to stop taking pride in our multitasking, and how to start monotasking instead.
What ‘attention residue’ is, and how to eliminate it distracting you from beginning a new, focused task.
Learn how to easily track your time throughout the week with tips, examples and a free download.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inkwell Press, a podcast focused on finding success and happiness through the power of productivity.
0:09.4	Each season, Tanya focuses on specific strategies to help you discover your own priorities and purpose.
0:15.2	Season five is all about investing in you.
0:18.4	You can also join Tanya for more interaction and support in her free Facebook group
0:22.3	at Inquellpress.com slash group. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton.
0:28.8	Hello, hello everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquale
0:35.1	Press, and this is episode 59.
0:38.8	Today's episode is brought to you by Trunk Club, an easy and streamlined way to stay in style.
0:44.7	I'll be sharing later in the episode how I use Trunk Club.
0:48.5	Let's go ahead and talk about today's topic, being protective of your time.
0:53.8	People don't often think about protecting their
0:56.2	time as an investment in themselves, but it is. When we give ourselves good solid blocks of
1:03.1	focused time, we're giving ourselves a gift. The most precious gift of all, isn't that what time is?
1:10.1	And yet, we feel obligated to give it away to anyone
1:13.6	who asks or even interrupts. That time is valuable. So it's really important to understand how
1:20.0	time works with our bodies. So we can be protective of our key times and create a schedule that's
1:25.9	focused around our priorities.
1:27.8	That's really part of investing in yourself.
1:30.3	Okay, so first I think you need to understand that we live in a universe that is characterized
1:36.3	by rhythmic movement between activity and rest.
1:40.3	Think about the daily rising and the setting of the sun, the ebbing and flowing of the tides
1:45.8	and the movement between the seasons.
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