1033. From Chaos to Control: Weekly Planning Secrets for Busy Women
The Kelly Roach Show
Kelly Roach
4.9 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Kelly Roach Show, Kelly welcomes Megan Sumrell to share her weekly planning secrets for busy women while focusing on strategies for eliminating overwhelm and achieving work-life harmony. Megan, a productivity and time management expert, recounts her journey from a corporate IT executive to a sought-after consultant specializing in efficient processes for women balancing career and family life. She speaks on traditional productivity methods and the importance of structured weekly planning to provide actionable steps to reclaim control over their time.
Megan and Kelly explore why the daily task list can be more of a hindrance than a help, advocating instead for a structured weekly planning approach. Megan introduces the concept of a 'to-don't' list and emphasizes regular time audits to identify and eliminate non-essential tasks. She offers practical advice for reducing decision fatigue and ensuring that daily activities align with broader life and business goals.
Also in this episode:
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Shifting from a daily task list to a structured weekly plan helps alleviate overwhelm and improve productivity.
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Recognizing that task lists contribute to decision fatigue and prevent progress on long-term goals.
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Identifying and eliminating non-essential tasks that don't generate revenue or support customer satisfaction.
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Regularly auditing your time reveals hidden inefficiencies and opportunities to delegate or stop certain activities.
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A systematic approach to planning, including setting aside time for contingencies, leads to better focus and less stress.
About Megan Sumrell
Megan Sumrell, a former corporate techie turned entrepreneur, is a business owner, mom, and wife who understands the challenges of juggling multiple roles while maintaining a sense of self and purpose. After her daughter's birth in 2010, Megan struggled to manage work, motherhood, and family life, leading her to develop a unique time management system. Leveraging her 20+ year career in systems and processes, she created a proprietary 'feminine' planning approach that works from the bottom up. As a Time Management Expert, Megan teaches women strategies to efficiently manage their time, calendars, and goals, reducing stress, overwhelm, and exhaustion through her courses and planner.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Kelly Roach Show, the place for no-fluff, easy to implement 20 minute or less business and leadership lessons to help you build a sustainable business that scales. |
| 0:17.0 | Lead with integrity and create a lasting legacy. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Kelly Roach, former NFL cheerleader and Fortune 500 executive turned |
| 0:25.9 | eight figure entrepreneur. Let's get started. |
| 0:30.3 | Welcome back, this is the Kelly Roach show, and I am excited to have Megan Somrell on the show today |
| 0:35.1 | and we are going to be talking about kicking overwhelmed to the curb work life harmony and so much more. |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome to the show. Happy to have you here today. I'm thrilled to be here. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm so happy you're here because there's one thing that I've been saying to my clients and to our |
| 0:50.2 | market for the last two years, I feel like the default setting of the world is that |
| 0:57.2 | people are in overwhelm. |
| 1:00.5 | And so it's crazy that it seems that for whatever reason when we shifted into the post-COVID era, people fell into this state of overwhelm and they cannot seem to kick it. |
| 1:13.5 | And so I'm so happy you're here because I know for a lot of our listeners, |
| 1:17.6 | they've got families at home, they're managing the house, |
| 1:20.6 | they've got the kids, they're building and running the business, it's all-encompassing, |
| 1:25.0 | and they would love to break out of this feeling, but it just seems like there's so much. |
| 1:30.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:31.6 | So first of all, before we dig into strategies and solutions and |
| 1:35.0 | mindsets around that, why don't you talk to everybody just a little bit about |
| 1:37.6 | your story and how you even landed in doing this work that you're doing? |
| 1:41.5 | Sure, yeah, when I was eight years old and you asked me, what do you want to do when you grow up? |
| 1:44.8 | This was not. |
| 1:45.8 | I'm going to do a time management and play. |
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