I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear It podcast.

Today we're going to tell you how to manage your time effectively.

I'll tell you what, if you give me some extra time, I'll manage the heck out of it.

Until then, I don't know how to help.

And I'm sorry, I came across a little strong there telling you how to manage your time effectively. We're going to give you some tips. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Our ideas on it. How about that? We'll start there. So, you know, the first thing that's important for me in managing time, and let me just say, I'm at a point in my life where I'm trying to do more things than I ever have. So this is definitely something that's on my mind. I remember being a child way back in the 1980s. Some of you may

remember that time period, but spending a fair amount of my time bored where like managing my time

meant trying to find something interesting to do to put it in. Dude, I can't even picture you bored, right? Oh, man, I was, I spent a lot. I remember I'd just be bored. I was like staring at the wall or something, you know. So now it's kind of the opposite. It's trying to manage all these interesting things I want to do. But I would say, you know, the first thing before you start, you know, getting with all these time management techniques and lists and calendars and all that is you're doing and probably removing some things.

Because if you've got so many different things that you're trying to do, there's no way you're actually going to be able to manage your time effectively.

Now, you could probably spend thousands of dollars going to seminars and reading books

and listen to podcasts on how to try to do that.

And you could get marginally better and maybe optimize your time a little bit.

But I mean, the fact of the matter is if you want to do things well and deeply and effectively,

you're going to have to cut down on the number of things that

you're doing. So that's the first step, is just to make your list smaller. Yeah, and the way to do

that, and you, I know, are a big proponent of this. I do this every day is to start your day

out with a list of your priorities and where to to put your time prioritize those tasks that you think

are the most important top down and that will help you decide where to put your time and energy

on any given day i mean you can you know we i know both expand on that from you know out to the

week out to the month even out to the month, even out to the year,

about how we want to put our time.

That really helps me to see it.

There's something about seeing it in front of me every morning that helps me to accomplish

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