The Bright Method Podcast: Realistic Time Management and Productivity for Working Women & Working Moms

Many of us (myself included) have deep loyalty to many in our lives, and sometimes, it causes us to make decisions about work that are different than what we want or tolerate situations at work much longer than makes us happy.

My dad gave me incredibly useful advice on this front when I was 25 that's stuck with me since then. Let's talk about it – with the aim of helping us reign in that overactive loyalty so we can draw boundaries at work.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

American culture is fixated on DOING – and those of us in it struggle to stop the doing to plan and prioritize. This quote caught my attention on that front: "You waste years by not being able to waste hours." The quote is by Amos Tversky and doesn't relate to planning, but it made me think that we do risk wasting weeks, months, and years by not planning and prioritizing where we want to go. Busyness without direction doesn't always get us where we want to go.

Let's discuss – and walk through what this means from a practical perspective.

Other episodes referenced:

• Prioritization - Ep. 4 - "How to prioritize in a way that actually works"
• Weekly planning session - Ep. 8 - "Your new weekly planning session"
• Annual planning/Thinking Time - Ep. 33 - "Long-term planning: How to feel like YOU & create long-term plans"

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

For people with ever-different schedules, from ER physicians and nurses to pilots, this episode is for you!

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Someone asked me on Instagram to address commutes from a time management perspective. So, let's dig into some strategies for traditional commutes & non-commutes for the days you WFH. A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Listen to at least the first five minutes before you decide whether or not this episode is for you. And I'd love to hear your feedback.

Resources mentioned:

• Episode 29 of the Bright Method podcast regarding Outsourcing, including our complicated emotions around the topic
• Here's where to find more about Kelly Hubbell of Sage Haus:
• Website - https://www.mysagehaus.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mysagehaus/
• Store - https://stan.store/mysagehaus

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

I recently had this breakthrough that's been very empowering and practically helpful, so I figured I'd share it here with you.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

I personally find it fascinating to hear what people are saying "no" to and why. In addition, hearing examples helps normalize saying no and sparks ideas for what others might say no to – all of which helps us manage our workload and life so that we have energy and time for the things we decide are most important to us.

So, here's an example from my own life: How and why I decided to say no to speaking engagements for the rest of 2024.

If you're already saying no to a category of activities or decide to after listening to this episode, let me know! I'd love to hear. Email me or DM me on Instagram.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

I keep seeing a theme in my time management work I want to talk about – the Vacuum Effect. Let's dig into it.

A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

If you're ready for a digital spring clean (think: email, calendar, phone), jump into my free 5-day digital spring clean email series here! Over the course of five days (starting when you sign up!), you'll get one digital spring clean tip emailed to you that you can act on right away to get more fresh air in your digital life!

In this episode, we dig into three of my physical work environment tips and others that I crowdsourced from other working women on Instagram and via my email list. I also compiled all of the strategies in an article if you'd like to read it here. Enjoy!

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Email can be a huge time management pain point for some of us. Let's go over three strategies we can use to help alleviate that pain. A full transcript of this episode is available on my website about two weeks after the episode is published. To find it, click here and then select the episode.

Links you might enjoy:

• 🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.
• ✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.
• 📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.