Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here.

And today we are continuing with our theme, which is all about giving yourself

permission to stop.

It is all about resetting, checking in with yourself to make sure, am I

where I should be? And what can I give myself permission to stop? And we're focused this week on

stop wasting your time. And we're going to look in this episode at how to not waste your time as much in your professional

life. I'm going to give you a few tips and tools that I've done for myself. But I first want to

tackle a lot of the kinds of emotional ways I would waste my time when it came to our professional

life. It really doesn't matter. Like I've had other episodes

and I encourage you to go back and listen to them about time management. And I've talked about

different apps I use to schedule my life and how I bring my goals to my planner, etc.

But time management and more importantly, the concept of wasting your time is often a really

emotional topic. It has less to do about tools, which are important, and more to do about

mindset and feelings. And in my professional life, I have wasted a lot of time and I have wasted a lot of time

emotionally. And I want to talk about the ways I used to waste my time emotionally at work and what

I've done to counteract that. So the first way I wasted my time was constantly looking for and hoping for validation and

appreciation. I am really good at what I do. I've done a lot of self-work to have some self-worth

to be able to say that to you.

I'm awesome.

When it comes to strategy, when it comes to managing workplace misconduct,

when it comes to business thinking and strategy around even podcasting,

I'm really good at it.

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