People are constantly battling trying to finish things more quickly, but at the same time, swamped with more work. So getting more things done in less time is almost like an impossible feat. Adding to this stress, we also have to try to balance both personal and work life. But as people constantly fight to find this balance, experts argue that implementing the right strategies is the best solution to all this pressure. But what is the right strategy for you?

Paul Casey, founder and CEO of growing forward, a leadership and life coaching business – talks about this in his book maximizing every minute. Specifically, he joins the podcast to share more about 101 tips and tools on time management for your work and personal life.

12 Commitments

1. Filtering your time commitments through the lens of your core values and your vision, whether a one-year or long-range vision.
2. Choosing your top three priorities for tomorrow before you're done with today.
3. Accomplish your priorities early in the day to avoid procrastination. 
4. Block out appointments with yourself. 
5. Finish one task before starting another. 
6. Follow your biorhythm so that you're most productive in your energy sweet spot of the day. 
7. Delegate or outsource anything that only you must do. Try to stay on the most important things of your day. 
8. Utilize strategies and boundaries to limit the negative side effects of side trackers. 
9. Building margins and breaks into your day.
10. Lead your meetings. 
11. Share your priorities with other people.
12. Do reviews regularly, whether that's a daily review, weekly, quarterly, or annual review.

Filtering Time Commitments

People want to dive into the tips and tricks right away, and they skip over this very fundamental point, which is managing your life around your values and your vision. And instead of just giving the people you love and the most important things to you the leftovers. You have to get those values in your calendar and literally block those out first, and then let the rest of your daily schedule around those. The second piece of that is your vision. And this is your long-range vision of where you want to be someday, like where do you want to be one year from today in all the categories of your life, your wellness, your relationships, your marketing, all those different kinds of things, give yourself a target to shoot for. And backtrack from that into setting goals that will get you there. Those things have to go into your calendar first.

Frontloading Priorities

Josh said that afternoons are runaway trains. If we don't frontload our priorities into the morning and take that thing that we set as a priority and drag it into later, then the afternoon comes, and you don't have enough time to get your priorities done because there's no margin-left. But if you get it done early in the day, it starts off this snowball of productivity. Whereas if you drag it to the afternoon, you get the three things done out of ten but usually not. And then you procrastinate yet again. And it goes into the next day. And you've double-stacked tomorrow and made that day undoable.

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