2384: Become a Time Realist by Julie Morgenstern on Scheduling and Time Management Skills

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🗓️ 18 June 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Julie Morgenstern talks about becoming a time realist Episode 2384: Become a Time Realist by Julie Morgenstern on Scheduling and Time Management Skills Julie Morgenstern is an organizing & productivity consultant, New York Times best-selling author, and speaker. For over 30 years, Julie has been teaching people all around the world and at all stages of life how to overcome disorganization to achieve their goals. Her mission is to free each individual to make their unique contribution to the world - by helping them design their own systems for managing time and space that feel natural and are easy to maintain. This Inside Out approach to organizing everything gives readers, listeners, and clients the energy and knowledge they need to get (and stay) organized. The original post is located here: https://www.juliemorgenstern.com/tips-tools-blog/2020/7/7/become-a-time-realist Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2384.
0:04.0	Become a Time Realist by Julie Morgan Stern of Julie Morgan Stern.com.
0:09.5	And I'm just a maul, like your very own personal narrator.
0:12.5	Let me keep on narrating as we optimize your life.
0:19.5	Become a Time Realist by Julie Morgan Stern of Julie Morgan Stern.com.
0:25.5	The number one time management question to ask yourself when approaching any task is,
0:31.5	how long is this going to take?
0:33.5	Yet we often resist asking ourselves this question for fear of discovering that we actually don't have enough time to do it all.
0:42.0	Better close our eyes, jump in and hope for the best.
0:45.5	Other times we miscalculate based on wishful thinking.
0:49.5	We believe if we are extra disciplined and diligent, we can get things done more quickly than usual.
0:55.5	Unfortunately, denial doesn't change reality.
0:58.5	Things take as long as they take.
1:00.5	If we ignore the truth, we may very well run out of time before we've even started on the most important work.
1:07.0	That is why asking the question, how long will this take?
1:11.0	Of every single task you do is the number one gateway skill,
1:15.5	not only to good time management, but to peak prioritization.
1:20.5	Unfortunately, it's easy to dramatically under or overestimate how long tasks take,
1:26.5	based on how we feel about them.
1:29.0	More often than not, we feel that tasks that we don't enjoy doing take far longer than they actually do.
1:35.0	Whereas tasks that we do enjoy doing only seem to take a few seconds.
1:39.5	In order to be effective at time estimating, you must take your feelings out of the equation.
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