Welcome to the Blackwell Burnout podcast. Kelly here.

And today I want to talk about how to create a life that is joyful via time management.

I've talked about the concept of what I call radical efficiency in my life as to how I manage my time.

And I have a whole episode on it. Go back. It was called Optin to Radical Efficiency. And I talk about what that is.

And I talk about how I create radical efficiency in my life by looking at relationships and figuring out what in my life is a time drain and what parts and relationships, what parts of myself and what relationships am I engaging in that are just me,

maybe procrastinating from doing something I'm supposed to or procrastinating,

setting boundaries in a relationship that doesn't work anymore. But today I want to talk about it

even more practically around calendaring my day, like how I actually bring the principle of radical

efficiency into my calendar and how I've been doing that and how

it's worked and when it hasn't worked because I'm by no means perfect. But why I still believe

it's worthy to tell you all about and see if you all can try it and if it works for you.

As we start to close out the year and reflect upon what has happened, it's really important that we always have these opportunities to check in, too, and see what can be better. Where can I improve? Where is my time going? And one of those questions should be, where is my time going? How can I improve that?

And that's something I consistently ask all the time. And I feel like as an entrepreneur, I ask it more.

When I worked for other people and income was kind of a given, you know, I was going to get paid

every two weeks, unless I got laid off,

I was going to have a job and a check. I was less efficient with my time. I kind of was okay to just

be like, I don't know where the day is going to take me or if it gets derailed. Oh, well, I'll try again

tomorrow. And that kind of conditioning just by working for other people made it easy to a fault to when I stepped into working for myself to struggle to manage my time.

Because then it went from, oh, you're not going to get a check.

If you don't do anything today, there's no money coming tomorrow.

And so that definitely changed my approach. And to be able to

combat that, I created this kind of mental concept in my mind called radical efficiency,

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