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How do you fit school, sport, friends, family, sleep, and everything else into your day without going crazy? In this episode, Barbara introduces the Big Rocks system — a simple but powerful way to set priorities and protect your time.
You’ll learn how to:
• Shift your mindset: time isn’t a clock, it’s a choice.
• Choose your priorities so you don’t drown in distractions.
• Protect your time with tools like Pomodoro and Timeboxing.
• Find your MIT (Most Important Task).
• Build a weekly system that frees energy, reduces guilt, and gives you more control.
This episode is for athletes — but also for parents and anyone who wants to stop feeling “busy all the time” without moving forward.
Key Takeaways
• Big Rocks first. Put your non-negotiables (school, sport, sleep, eating) in place before everything else.
• Not everything is important. If everything is important, nothing is important.
• Time is a choice. Protect it with focus blocks and boundaries.
• System > chaos. When you create structure, you gain more freedom.
This Week’s Challenge
1. Do the Big Rock Exercise → list your rocks, pebbles, and sand.
2. Pick your daily MIT (Most Important Task): one school, one sport, one life.
3. Protect it with a time-box.
4. Share this system with your parents — plan your week together and see how priorities align.
Contact me: [email protected]
Be part of my Community
By Barbara CortellaHow do you fit school, sport, friends, family, sleep, and everything else into your day without going crazy? In this episode, Barbara introduces the Big Rocks system — a simple but powerful way to set priorities and protect your time.
You’ll learn how to:
• Shift your mindset: time isn’t a clock, it’s a choice.
• Choose your priorities so you don’t drown in distractions.
• Protect your time with tools like Pomodoro and Timeboxing.
• Find your MIT (Most Important Task).
• Build a weekly system that frees energy, reduces guilt, and gives you more control.
This episode is for athletes — but also for parents and anyone who wants to stop feeling “busy all the time” without moving forward.
Key Takeaways
• Big Rocks first. Put your non-negotiables (school, sport, sleep, eating) in place before everything else.
• Not everything is important. If everything is important, nothing is important.
• Time is a choice. Protect it with focus blocks and boundaries.
• System > chaos. When you create structure, you gain more freedom.
This Week’s Challenge
1. Do the Big Rock Exercise → list your rocks, pebbles, and sand.
2. Pick your daily MIT (Most Important Task): one school, one sport, one life.
3. Protect it with a time-box.
4. Share this system with your parents — plan your week together and see how priorities align.
Contact me: [email protected]
Be part of my Community