233: How I Timeblock My Days For Productivity And Happiness
She Means Business Show
Carrie Green
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As business owners, most of us probably feel like we’re always trying to spin a million different plates and life can feel so overwhelming.
So in this episode I want to walk you through something really simple that can completely change how you approach your days, so that you can be more productive, but also experience more joy.
It’s something I’ve done for years and it always helps me so much.
I’m sharing with you:
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How to bring more joy, ease and happiness into your life.
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The process I always go back to whenever my schedule feels overwhelming.
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The steps I take to plan my days for more productivity and joy.
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How I keep track of everything so that I can keep improving.
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How to declutter your mind and your schedule.
And if you need more help with this, check out my book, She Means Business.
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| 0:00.0 | We all build our businesses because we want to create more freedom. We want to create more |
| 0:03.1 | happiness and bring more joy into our lives. I felt like I got to a point where I was just |
| 0:07.4 | feeling really drained by it all. What would make me feel happy? Hello, welcome back to |
| 0:16.3 | another episode of the She Means Business Show. So I have a lot going on in my life, as all of us do. And I think |
| 0:25.3 | sometimes it can all get really overwhelming and all consuming and stressful because we're busy |
| 0:32.8 | and we're trying to keep up. We're trying to spend like 50 million different plates. So in this |
| 0:36.7 | episode, I really want to walk you |
| 0:38.1 | through like something so slim and simple that we can do that can make such a big difference to |
| 0:43.7 | the way we feel about how we're approaching our day, especially over the past few years. I've got |
| 0:47.9 | two little kids, Marley, she's just turned three and Case is about to turn five as I'm recording |
| 0:53.2 | this right now. You know, life is busy trying to be |
| 0:57.0 | a mum and trying to keep up with, you know, the ideas that I have in my business and trying to |
| 1:05.3 | grow the business and stay on top of all the things I need doing in the business, trying to |
| 1:08.9 | have a life on top of all of that. Like it's,, it's a lot to try and, like, figure out and cram in. And I was having a conversation |
| 1:16.1 | with Kell and my husband the other week and I was just like, I just want to be able to take |
| 1:19.2 | the dog for a walk every day. Like, take them to school, get to the office, |
| 1:28.2 | set at my desk, I work till like 5.36, get home, have dinner, then get the kids in the bath, |
| 1:34.1 | then get them to bed and then it's like 8.30, 9 o'clock and then it's like, maybe we've got a bit |
| 1:38.7 | of time for me and Kellan to hang out and then go to bed and wake up and do it all again the next day. And it's just like, when can I fit it all in? And I was feeling so overwhelmed with everything that I had going on. |
| 1:50.5 | And so I've really started to dissect it because I thought, one, this is not, I'm not carrying |
| 1:55.7 | on like this anymore. Like this is just too frustrating. And two, I just also felt like it doesn't have to be this way |
| 2:04.5 | like it does not need to be this hard or this complicated or this overwhelming i found that i'd got |
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