#110: How to Clear Your Calendar in Your Busiest Seasons

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Timemanagement, Productivity, Organization, Planning, Achievement, Education, Worklifebalance, Business, Michaelhyatt, Focus, Goals

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🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Do you feel like you don’t have space to breathe during the fourth quarter? Work has picked up. Meetings seem to be multiplying. Family demands are increasing. Your calendar is packed, and you’re jumping from one thing to the next. How can you keep yourself from feeling spread thin, burnt out, and unable to actually enjoy the “fun things” you’ve said yes to? In this episode, Courtney, Verbs, and Blake walk you through the four keys of calendar triage. You don’t have to feel swept away by this last quarter of the year. You can take back your calendar, redefine what full looks like, and set yourself up to win. In this episode, you’ll discover—The filter you must have clarity on before you do calendar triageWhat to ask yourself as you reevaluate the necessity of meetings How to get out of an existing commitment with integrityWhy it’s essential to schedule time for margin Resources:Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less―Here's How by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:52.0	So last week, guys, I obviously like normally, I would say that my schedule is pretty full in the sense that like I have a full time job.
0:53.4	My husband has a full time job.
0:54.9	I have a 10 month old. You know, like that's the big full-time job. My husband has a full-time job. I have a 10-month-old.
0:57.1	You know, like, that's the big kicker.
0:57.7	A few things.
1:05.8	But, yeah, last week was one of those weeks where it just was too much all of a sudden.
1:11.2	I very sadly had a death in my family. And so obviously there were funerals and visitations and just a lot of like mental,
1:16.4	emotional energy around that.
1:19.5	I was packing for a vacation, which for those of you that pack with small children,
1:25.8	it's like, do we have to bring the whole house
1:29.5	to the other location?
1:30.8	Cause that's kind of how this feels.
1:32.2	I mean like, should we even ever leave?
1:34.5	I don't know.
1:35.8	We had family pictures, family pictures,
1:39.5	which I had not planned ahead of before this death
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