Hey deserving listeners, it's just me today.

Today I'm going to talk about time management.

The reason why I'm going to talk about it is because I've received a lot of emails from patrons asking me to talk about it.

They have all been observing that I spend or I get a lot of I get a lot of things done

according to their perception. I don't know if it's if it's true or not but from their perception they're like you know

Kirk you you have a podcast that you spend a good amount of time on. You have a job as a professor. You have a job as private practice,

and private practice as a therapist. You also have a private practice for supervisors. You also spend time with your family and your friends and your pets and you surely have chores that you do and and you have to drive and you have to exercise and you have to sleep and you're writing books and you're in therapy and you have musical projects that you work on and stuff and how do you get all these

things done it doesn't make any mathematical sense now what I always, what I said to that, so people have been saying this to me since I've been an adult. They, maybe even when I was a teenager, I don't know, but people would say to me when I was a teenager I don't know but people would say to me when I was younger in my 20s or something they'd say man you you get a lot done it seems like you get you have all these it's like you know they'd say for me I have this job and I come home and that's it

whereas you you have a job and you do all these other things that you know and when I was in my 20s when people would say that to me I would say I would think well I would I would think there was something wrong with their perception of me.

I'd say, well, you know, you don't know how much time actually waste or you just think I get a lot done when in fact I don't really get a lot done.

Or I thought maybe I was just surrounded by a lot of people who

just had really bad time management skills or something.

But then in my 30s more people started saying these

things to me and I started really trying to figure out why people were saying this to

me and I I started to observe other people, particularly people who

were close to me, people who I could observe throughout the day and evaluate how typical people spend their time and I did start to realize

that I did get more done in a typical week than other people.

And I, and I, and I, and I, and I didn't spend that much time thinking about it honestly.

I just was like, well, I guess that's a strength of mine I have I have weaknesses you know

I've talked about my my weakness for eating nachos those aren't very healthy but

I eat nachos a lot and so among other weaknesses like I don't

know arrogance is another weakness of mine and I just sort of chalked it up to that and didn't really think that

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