216: Annual Planning with Time Management Expert Megan Sumrell
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
If you're in a constant state of overwhelm or don't have enough time in your day, today's episode with time management expert, Megan Sumrell, is for you!
I'm honored to be a speaker on Megan's upcoming Plan-a-palooza Workshop - this live, virtual event is designed to show you how to create meaningful, practical plans that address and acknowledge the craziness that is life, achieve your goals and have time for yourself again.
For once, you will have a plan that is realistic and will *actually* help you reach your goals of ANY kind.
During this online event, you'll also get access to my BRAND NEW workshop which will teach you how to plug decluttering into your schedule - without losing sleep, taking time off work or wasting entire weekends.
Tickets are on sale for Plan-a-palooza are just $47 through August 31st (but go up to $97 on September 1st).
Join us at the link below - I can't wait to see you there!
https://www.megansumrell.com/a/2147517683/LJ6uRgox
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take |
| 0:20.6 | back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:30.0 | What is up? Megan Summerle back on the Maximized Minimalist show. Welcome. Thank you. It's like |
| 0:36.5 | such an honor when I get to me back I'm |
| 0:38.2 | like yay we love it love talking with you any chance I can get I'm super excited for |
| 0:43.7 | today's topic you've been on the show a couple times we've talked about annual |
| 0:47.9 | planning which we'll cover briefly we'll kind of recap that today time management |
| 0:52.2 | strategies and these episodes are always some of my most popular |
| 0:55.9 | because it's such a need and desire for everyone in leading our busy lives, whether we've |
| 1:03.4 | simplified or not, there just tends to be so much busyness and to-dos and things like that. |
| 1:07.9 | Today I wanted to talk about more, again, annual planning and dive deeper into the |
| 1:14.2 | levels of this and how we apply it for our daily lives. So let's start by asking, what is an |
| 1:20.8 | annual plan? I know it, but I know a lot of my listeners haven't heard yet. And how do you use it? |
| 1:25.1 | Because you were the queen of annual planning. |
| 1:28.6 | So first of all, it's like, why in the world would we even be talking about annual planning now, |
| 1:33.1 | right? I think most people, they start to think about it December 26th or maybe January 1st. |
| 1:40.5 | And the reason why I start talking about it and thinking about it as early as I do is if we wait until the end of the year or the start of the year, we tend to miss two to three months of opportunity at the start of the year. |
| 1:56.1 | So I like to step into, honestly, my holiday season, already having my draft annual plan done |
| 2:04.9 | so that that's not lingering and stressing me out. And I can really just go all in. |
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