795 - Time Management Doesn't Work
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we look at the failed practice of time management and why it doesn't work. We also look at energy management and how to use it to get more done each day.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Does time |
| 0:02.0 | work? |
| 0:03.0 | What does that actually even mean to you? |
| 0:06.0 | See, everyone wants to manage their time better. |
| 0:10.0 | Everyone wants to be more productive |
| 0:12.0 | to get more done to do more on their day-to-day |
| 0:15.9 | journeys. And we all sort of turn to time management, the skill of time management as the tool to accomplish that but does it even work? |
| 0:27.6 | When was the last time you stopped and asked yourself that? I'm not sure. I'm not sure when the last time I asked myself that was before this episode. |
| 0:40.0 | And what is interesting, what I found in the research for this episode is that time management actually is the complete wrong strategy. |
| 0:51.0 | And in fact, there's something that is far better and far more effective to |
| 0:55.7 | producing something of value and producing more in a day-to-day basis and that's what I want to talk about in this episode. So get |
| 1:07.4 | excited because this is tiny leaps. Big change. Everyone wants to be productive, but what does that even mean? Seriously, what does productivity even mean? |
| 1:35.8 | How do we measure productivity? |
| 1:38.3 | What does it look like? |
| 1:39.8 | What does it not look like? |
| 1:41.5 | Is productivity only important when you're trying to create work for |
| 1:46.8 | your job or is productivity also important in our personal lives? And perhaps most importantly, how does one achieve |
| 1:56.4 | productivity? We've been fed over and over again for multiple books, multiple |
| 2:01.4 | apps, multiple tools, and resources, that being productive is the holy grail. |
| 2:08.9 | And in theory, it sounds really nice, especially if you're excited about something. |
| 2:14.1 | Who wouldn't want to sit down and accomplish as much as possible? |
| 2:18.7 | It would be amazing if we could all perform every single day and do the things we want to do every single day |
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