Sticky Learning Lunches #43: Think You Don't Need to Attend This Webinar?

This 7-part model will help you to find out what is wrong with your time management.

You will learn:

- Each of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- How each part is essential to creating an effective time management system.

- The holes that are exposed in your time management system by not having any one of the 7 pieces.

- Practical tips to incorporate any one of the 7 parts of the time management system.

You Can Read the Full Transcript Below:

Improve your time management the these 7 hurdles

 

Nathan Simmonds:

Here we go. We're in. It's one o'clock. Bam. Right on the notes. Sticky learning lunches with me, Nathan Simmons. Hello everyone. Thanks very much for being here and it's amazing to see so many enthusiastic people already here. Vij, good to see you again. Victoria, thank you very much for being here. Tim, always a pleasure, Howard, really appreciate you being here. Colin, as always here, every time if I had a Blue Peter badge, especially for you, Colin, you, I will be sending it to. Amen. Thank you very much. And Andy, really appreciate you being here so early, ready for this session. Massive gratitude to all of you.

Nathan Simmonds:

We're just gonna give it 30 seconds while we wait for other people to arrive and as they do we'll, and I'm gonna give it a few more seconds. Fiona, hello. I'll just get everyone in here and then we'll kick off today's session for the final hurdle in the time management system, which is all about taking action. Sticky learning badges sound like a great idea. Do you know what, actually, as you were saying that there's some parallels here between the content that we're delivering online for the sticky learning lunches, uh, and the way that we approach online training. And I was talking to a peer in another organization about this.

Nathan Simmonds:

There's some parallels between social media and what we're doing here. And if you look at things like Facebook, you know, when you are in a group, they do badges. They give you little award stickers so that you can say when you are in a group, whether you are a, a visual storyteller or rising star or whatever it is. And actually sticky learning lunge badge. Yeah, that'd be a great idea. Now I've done it. I think I've just made another piece of work for myself. I might have to get one of the graphic designers on this.

Nathan Simmonds:

We'll get some pictures up with some badges of the people that attend the most. Got our pens ready. I think we're good to go. How are we doing the today before we dive in? How are we today? One being terrible, 10 being phenomenal. Where are we rating ourselves in our week already on a Tuesday. Where are we got some eights? We've got a six. Okay. Six. There's a couple of sixes. This doesn't fill me with joy.

Nathan Simmonds:

Got you. No, back to backs today. Good. Nice. That was a 10. Thank you Victoria, for, for paying attention and making use of this wherever we are. Whatever number you've rated yourself at in relation to the week you're in right now, whether that be because of lockdown and you're still in isolation, you've got cabin fever, whether that be frustrations of your time management system not working, whether that be, you know, other frustrations or other problems coming up. Let's ask one straightforward question that's gonna make help to make a shift.

Nathan Simmonds:

What's one thing that you can do right now that's gonna help you to shift from wherever you are in that rating, on that sliding scale to the next step? What's the one thing that's gonna help improve the situation right now? Let me know in the questions box. You can write it down for yourself as an action that you need to be taken that's gonna help you shift. You are in direct control of the environment around you. Let me rephrase that. You're in direct control of how you choose to respond to the environment around you.

Nathan Simmonds:

One of those six is going Stop procrastinating me, not you, Nathan. I was gonna say, crikey, you don't know me well enough, Abby to tell me to stop procrastinating, but you are right. I was this morning, but we'll talk about that later. And anyway, you were part of the procrastination workshop. You know the three sessions we did around that. So you have some of those tools to make you or help you do that.

Nathan Simmonds:

If you need to revisit the session, by the way, we'll put the link in there, therefore, uh, the previous workshops. So you can go and have a look at those ones as well. Let's dive into this. Pay attention. This is about action. So it's time to act one 30. Ba we're going, I didn't attend that, but need to. Okay. In the in, in the chat box, if you have not register already registered for the future sticky learning lunches or shared that link with people that it's relevant to, we are gonna share the link for the future sessions.

Nathan Simmonds:

On that link is also all the, all the previous sessions that we've delivered up until now. So you've got over 40 sticky learning lunches in there, covering everything from the grow coaching model to procrastination and getting things done and all the way through to time management and everything in between. If you haven't already already registered, the first call to action today is click that link and get registered for the future sessions tomorrow we're gonna start by covering something super niche, which is category management.

Nathan Simmonds:

If there are people in your business that would benefit from understanding category management at a much deeper level, we are gonna be doing seven sessions with our in-house resident expert, Andy Palmer, taking you through the 73% category management funnel. I'm gonna be facilitating that conversation and it's gonna be delivering some exceptional level of expertise to make sure that we wait.

Nathan Simmonds:

That, that you have absolute clarity in that space. So the link's in there below. Let's get on with today. Come on, I'm, I'm jabbering 'cause I'm excited as always. Number one, mobile phones. Let's do this. Zero out the distraction, light up the little airplane, a hundred percent attention on you, making sure you've got a drink, fresh tea, whatever it is, staying hydrated. Good weather, keeping the brain lubricated and your notepads fresh page, fresh thinking at the top of that page you're gonna write keepers and these are the things that you want to keep hold of, that you wanna remember, okay.

Nathan Simmonds:

That you want to remind yourself about when you reread them so you can reignite that thinking and make the learning stick. 'cause that's what we're here to do to help you make that stuff stick. Let's get into this day seven of the seven hurdles of time management.

Nathan Simmonds:

Welcome to today's Sticky Learning lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM making Business Matter. The home of sticky learning idea of these sessions to help you be the best version of you in the work that you do right now, from wherever you are at home or at work or if you're returning back to work. Help you to raise that thinking up, uh, and give you some, uh, skills and, and uncommon ideas that are gonna get you to uncommon results, right?

Nathan Simmonds:

And really push that level of experience for you. Today's session number seven, hurdle action. Let's dive straight into this. I'm not gonna put the flow up there. Hopefully enough of you have seen that flow chart. So we know that there's capturing and there's um, uh, emptying and deleting and listing and scheduling and storing and, and all that sort. But the last part we're getting to is all about action.

Nathan Simmonds:

Hurdle number seven is all about action. And you've heard me say it before and I'm gonna say it again because it's, you know, it's something valuable and worth keeping hold of action creates traction, okay? The universe responds to you doing things not to you thinking about maybe you should be doing them. Does that make sense? I'm hope everyone's with me on this. In the nicest possible way, you cannot meditate your way out of a tiger attack.

Nathan Simmonds:

Uh, you cannot meditate your way to a million dollar check coming through the post. It requires a certain amount of you putting some energy in that moves you towards where you want to get to at the other end. Now, if you've got items that are dropping into your email, into your capturing points and you're not emptying, that's the first action you need to enter your capture points in order to get 'em to un get to understand where they need to go. Where do they need to be? Do they need to be delegated? Do they need to be put into the right list? Do I need to schedule them? This is the first action. 'cause if we're not doing these things and causing ourselves triggers

Nathan Simmonds:

Those sparks and those moments, at whatever point we are in the time management system, nothing's going to happen. Does this make sense with everyone? Yes or no? It's a double cuff. It's always a double cuff day, always a double cuff day. So as I said on day one, as I said on day two and three, the time management system hinges on whether or not you trust that system. And in truth, you are the linchpin that holds the whole system together.

Nathan Simmonds:

Because if you're not not acting, if you're not concentrating, you're not pulling those, you know, the relevant levers at the right time, it's not going to work. And then at the end of the day, and as I said before and question before, when something doesn't happen, when something falls off the radar, when you miss something and all those frustrations come up and you get angry at other people, all you're doing is getting angry at yourself because you are the one that dropped the ball.

Nathan Simmonds:

Who here's felt like this? Yes or no? Everyone say I if they,