A Simple Solution To Managing Your Time

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

This Daily Habit Changed My Business and My Life 1. Study the things you have planned for the day. Look to create efficiencies with your habits. For example, I have a 5/20 Rule, where I try to schedule five- minute phone calls and keep my in-person meetings to 20 minutes, which ultimately promotes a more productive conversation. 2. Study the white space of your calendar. How can you schedule more of those five-minute calls or 20-minute meetings? How can you be more accessible to those who might need you? And don’t forget to ensure you schedule downtime for activities that you enjoy, which I call “activities you don’t get paid for.” 3. Study your sleep. It not only is the restorative process, but it enhances your immune system, which is of the utmost importance. You need to build a consistent sleep routine that helps restore not only your physical being but your mental health, as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Human nature, like I study history, human nature will tell you one thing. People waste time.
0:06.2	This is entrepreneurs to play them. That's why I'm a consistent behavioralist that I believe that
0:11.6	every day you have to prioritize what you're doing to infuse passion and enjoy into what you're
0:16.7	doing so that time becomes irrelevant that I'm not waiting. I have plans for the future. My kids
0:22.9	eight, when he's 18, I have some sort of plan that will evolve. But every single day, I don't waste
0:29.5	my time. That's why I take time as activity and through activity, I look and see how can I maximize
0:36.0	the activity I get paid for. The word busy only means inaccessible to me. Busy is not what people
0:43.3	that are active are. People that are inactive are busy people because they're not accessible.
0:50.9	So if you find me like some dude that gets high all the time and sleeps out the day, he's very busy
0:55.4	in my mind. But I will tell you the most common things people tell me who I strive towards my
1:01.1	potential of being the most productive and accessible person that you would know by doing all kinds of
1:05.6	freakish things at the time. People's most common thing they'll say about me is I don't want to bother
1:10.0	you because you're busy. Our intention means that we have to first pay attention to have an
1:16.9	intention. So I pay attention to what I do in person on the phone via email and all media,
1:21.6	radio, print, tv, social media. And I schedule things in a minimum amount of time and challenge myself
1:27.9	which is a pursuit, five minute meetings, 20 minute, right? Five minute phone calls, 20 minute
1:32.4	meetings, right? And then I study what I'm not doing. All these blank spaces in the calendar. So
1:38.2	now that becomes a challenge. How productive and accessible can I be for the next two hours?
1:43.1	And I'm studying it though. That means I'm paying attention to. I'm not just looking at it because
1:47.6	we look at our calendar. Who here's looked at the calendar? Forgot things. Yeah. I can't tell you
1:53.0	how I've looked at something like five minutes ago and wait, what's next? But when I study it,
2:00.0	when I pay attention to something, when I harness the power of intention, I believe there's a field
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