Take Control of Your Calendar
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever fallen victim to your own calendar? We need to rethink busy and focus on what's important to structure our days to be more effective and rewarding. Today, we'll talk about managing your calendar and how to take control of your schedule and your time so it doesn't control you. I'll share how to get in the driver's seat when scheduling your time AND your priorities.
What's In This Episode:
The 5 P's of planning
How to map out your week ahead
The importance of setting boundaries
How to use time-blocking to your advantage
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 10 of Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on helping you |
| 0:09.0 | achieve your best life. Join Tanya this season as she explores the concept of bending time |
| 0:14.4 | so you could stay focused on what matters most. To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak |
| 0:19.8 | productivity, simply go to Inquellpress.com |
| 0:22.9 | slash podcast. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is |
| 0:35.2 | episode 122. Take control of your calendar. So as we continue our |
| 0:41.7 | quest this season to find ways to bend time, I thought we'd spend today discussing calendar |
| 0:47.2 | management. And here's why. I want to help you find ways to take control of your calendar |
| 0:52.7 | so that it doesn't control you. I think many |
| 0:56.7 | times we feel like we're a victim to our calendars. So I want to empower you to be in the driver's seat |
| 1:02.5 | when it comes to scheduling your days, your weeks, and your months. I want you to own your day, |
| 1:08.1 | not the other way around. Remember, it's not just about jamming our |
| 1:12.5 | calendars full of 10,000 different things just to be busy. We want to rethink busy and focus on |
| 1:19.3 | priorities so that we can structure our days to be more effective and more rewarding. But before we |
| 1:25.7 | dive in, I want to say a quick word about today's sponsor. |
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| 1:45.8 | Okay, before we get started, I want to give a quick little pep talk because I want to talk about a word that may feel uncomfortable to you. |
| 1:55.0 | Control. I've noticed that people tend to bristle against this word. They say, I don't want to be controlling. |
| 2:02.6 | But if you're not in charge of your day, who is? |
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