535 - How to Deal with Overwhelming Overload

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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You can find and fix your sources of overload by using your calendar to track, allocate, and flex your time. Get-It-Done Guy Stever Robbins gives you the tools to get the most productivity out of every day. Read the transcript at: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/productivity/time-management/how-to-deal-with-overwhelming-overload Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts FOLLOW GET-IT-DONE GUY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy

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0:00.0	This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.
0:09.2	Task lists, meeting, software responsibilities, obligations, too much to do. Welcome to the 21st century.
0:15.5	We're in the middle of the most technologically advanced period of the human race, and yet yet were overwhelmed, overworked, and overloaded
0:21.1	more than all the generations that have come before.
0:24.3	Take, for example, Bernice, proud owner of a chain of green, growing things, plant stores.
0:29.1	She has stores to run, inventory to review, marketing materials to produce employees to hire
0:33.7	a wedding to plan.
0:34.5	She's been planning this darn thing for 10 years now.
0:36.6	She also has yoga, singing lessons, socializing cooking, teaching classes, an adjunct professor of carnivorous
0:40.7	plants, and hugging her schmupy. You've probably got a similar lineup, and even though you
0:46.0	enjoy each activity on its own, the combination can just be too much. It's enough to beat down
0:51.4	even the strongest person's mojo. So it's up to you to tame the overwhelm using a calendar.
0:58.4	First, there are some hard truths to confront.
1:01.6	The hard truths of time management.
1:03.7	Truth number one.
1:04.8	There are only 24 hours in a day.
1:07.8	You can't just work hard and get 25 hours worth of work done.
1:10.8	Things just take time. Nine women cannot join forces to have a day. You can't just work hard and get 25 hours worth of work done. Things just take time.
1:12.8	Nine women cannot join forces to have a baby in one month. As we covered in Get a Done Guy episode
1:17.9	484, how to plan properly with deadlines and milestones, schedule slips are very hard to recover from.
1:23.5	If you fall behind by one day, it takes four days of 25% overtime to make up the lost work.
1:30.2	That's just the basic math. You need slack time to catch up from unexpected delays. Slack time is
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