Welcome to day one of the Squiggly Career Skill Sprint. And in this episode, we are going to be talking about the skill of time management.

And we all spend a lot of time at work, so it's relatively obvious why this one feels important.

But I also feel like it's one of those areas where maybe there's a bit of pressure to always get better at it.

You know when you read those profiles of people of how they spend their time and they always seem to be up at like 4.35am.

Then they've run 10K and then they've read a book or before breakfast and then they eat like a really healthy breakfast.

And I'm just sort of like clambering out of bed just going like oh I can't even think straight so I think everyone sort of does this in their own way but also I think we sort of give

ourselves a hard time that we're not spending our time well we need to optimize more so I do think

you have to find an approach to time management that works for you and I think it's fair to say that

helen and i's approach to time management is relatively different. So hopefully there'll be something for everyone in today's episode. So Helen, what's

your idea for action? The way that I find most effective for me to manage my time is to think about

like the highest return on my time. So what I recognize is that I can't create more time.

You know, that whole you can't get more hours in the day. You can't get more kind of days in the week.

So you're working with a finite amount of time.

But I think the variable is that there are some hours in your day that have a higher return

because you probably have more energy.

You're more effective in those moments.

So if I think for me, the highest return for me on my time when I get the most out

of an hour spent on something is in the morning because I'm much more, I'm just more, I'm more

mentally present in the morning, I think, before the day distracts me a little bit. And also earlier

in the week, I feel like distractions accumulate in my brain. So by like Friday morning, I'm a bit of a like, oh, this and this, I've got too much to do.

On a Monday or a Tuesday morning, I've got that like clarity.

And so if I spend an hour or two working on something important on a Monday or Tuesday morning,

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