Energy + Hours (formerly Grow Like a Mother)

You’re Not Bad at Time Management, You’re Missing These 4 P’s


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In this short, powerful bite-size episode of Energy + Hours, Jill breaks down the Four P’s of Time Management: a simple but transformational way to understand how to plan, prioritize, personalize, and approach productivity in a more aligned and sustainable way

Whether you’re a mom, a business owner, or simply feeling overwhelmed by everything on your plate, this episode gives you a clear, supportive starting point for managing your time without burning out.


Inside the episode, Jill shares how to:✨ Create a plan that keeps you anchored instead of swept away by life

✨ Prioritize what actually matters (especially when everything feels urgent)

✨ Personalize your time management to fit your season, your energy, and your neurodiverse brain

✨ Redefine productivity with rhythms, energy, and rest

✨ Understand the difference between rest and self-care using Jill’s full-cup analogy

✨ Build a toolbox of strategies that evolve with you


What You’ll Learn in This Episode✨ Why planning is essential if you want to stop living in reaction mode

✨ How to get clear on what comes FIRST (and why prioritization reduces overwhelm)

✨ The role of self-knowledge and personalization in sustainable time management

✨ How your natural energetic rhythms affect productivity

✨ Jill’s full-cup model for understanding baseline vs. optimal energy

✨ Why rest is not the same as self-care

✨ The real reason burnout happens and how to prevent it

✨ How to build a flexible toolbox of time and energy tools that grow with you


Related Episodes:✨ Thriving Through the Holiday Chaos with Jamie Glowacki⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/7nNr1tfXDDQMPmPYiX84Rc?si=HBQgYvJDQTuimDP0WpCWVQ

✨ Tired? You Might Be Resting Wrong⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/4971JZdN7LkLFsRdO9usWf?si=zlLCW4XQR4WvOU4e3ZJ95Q

✨ Eat Your Frog – The Simple Planning Hack That Actually Workshttps://open.spotify.com/episode/2dobBoHGTWNFNRw0D2ctrb?si=a77HTUFyRAOOZbmEMDt7mw

✨ Behind the Magic - the Time Magic Framework https://open.spotify.com/episode/5iVRrQMcrR70J9Rtdq4fN5?si=aPp6GI60TcSPIjGn0qbHlw

Resources Mentioned✨ Take the Quiz: ⁠https://jillwright.ca/quiz⁠⁠

Get 3 personalized tools based on your planning + energy type.

✨ The Time Magic™ Planner: https://jillwright.ca/planner

Your go-to system for aligning your calendar with your values, your energy, and your life.

✨ Join the email list: https://jill-wright.myflodesk.com/email-newsletter

🕒 Timestamps

00:00 — Welcome + Jamie Glowacki shoutout

00:21 — Holiday burnout: linking Jamie’s episode

00:37 — Today’s topic: The 4 P’s of Time Management

01:03 — Why you need a simple framework

01:16 — P #1: Planning (what, why, and how)

02:15 — Planning gives you control

02:32 — Weekly planning + the Time Magic Planner

02:53 — P #2: Prioritizing

03:14 — Why prioritizing eliminates paralysis

03:44 — Prioritizing strategies: Eat Your Frog, Choose 3, values-based planning

04:03 — The Eisenhower Matrix

04:18 — P #3: Personalization

04:46 — Why time management must be tailored to YOU

05:11 — Seasons, strengths, support, and energetics

05:33 — Start with the Time Management Style Quiz

05:58 — Building your personalized toolbox

06:10 — When tools stop working (and what to do next)

06:35 — Time management for neurodiverse brains

06:37 — P #4: Productivity

07:17 — Your human design + natural energy rhythms

07:30 — Peaks, sprints, and rest needs

08:10 — Rest as a productivity tool

08:45 — Rest vs. self-care + Jill’s full-cup analogy

09:50 — The 7 types of rest

10:19 — The podcast as a treasure trove of tools

11:03 — Rest (bottom half of the cup)

11:58 — Self-care (top of the cup)

12:12 — Time confetti vs. intuitive self-care

12:53 — Why productivity is misunderstood

13:03 — The Time Magic™ Framework: Productivity, Self-Care, Rest

13:30 — Recap of the four P’s

14:20 — Final thoughts + how to support the podcast

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Energy + Hours (formerly Grow Like a Mother)By Jill Wright, Time Management Expert