How do we best mitigate overwhelm and dropping the ball when we take on new projects? Many of us struggle with creating effective time management skills that often lead to an overflowing cup. We take on too many projects but we're still bound to the same 24 hours in a day.
Recently I revamped my youth speaking side of the business. I started this back in 2018 but on a much smaller scale. Going all in required a website, business cards, a crm, and more. Wanting to get this up and running quickly I knew I had to put a pause on the podcast =(
Take a listen today to what I learned from this and what I would have done differently.
00:00 Exploring the meaning of the saying "people often overestimate what they can do in a year, and underestimate what they can do in ten years".
01:04 Despite properly estimating the time required to start an entrepreneurial project, what issues arose as a result?
01:38 My background of his entrepreneurial journey.
02:04 What I have learned about the process of "starting".
02:42 How this lesson can be applied to lives of anyone listening + examples of exercises people can use.
03:02 Describing "collateral damage" that might occur when pursuing a new task.
03:16 Time management on a large vs. small scale.
03:56 Various exercises to practice efficient time management.
05:29 Explaining a helpful tool for time management called "Timeular" • Learn more about Timeular here: https://timeular.com/
06:25 Making better estimates by doubling the time that you might believe a task takes.
07:25 Planning out activities for more effective time management.
08:56 What happens when we take on more tasks than we can handle?
11:06 When juggling too many projects, how can we purposefully drop a "ball" and prioritize other projects that may be more important to improve our time management?
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