One of the things that some of

my clients say to me is, Emma,

I just don't have enough time.

There's not enough hours in the day.

If you could just wave your

magic wand and give me another

hour, that would be amazing.

And I wrote about this in my first book.

There is no more time.

So it's how we use it

that's so, so important.

Have you noticed that when

you're doing something that you

don't love, how slow time goes?

And when you're doing something that

you do love, how quickly it goes.

I'm a roller skater from way back.

And when I go to the roller skating

rink and, do a lesson or roller skate

for an hour, the time goes like that.

It's so quick.

It's because I'm loving what I'm doing.

I'm so engrossed in what I'm doing.

It's the same when you're

playing to your strengths, right?

You don't notice the time fly.

I'm not into this, but some of my

clients love an Excel spreadsheet.

And I know, I know for a fact they

get lost for hours in spreadsheets.

Good on them.

That's awesome.

I want to tell you

about one of my clients.

We'll call her Julie.

Julie had a session with me.

And she turned up and was

feeling very overwhelmed.

When we unpacked what was happening

for her, she felt like she was

running out of hours in the day.

She wasn't able to get to all

the things that she needed to.

She had a list as long as her

arm that she needed to do.

And she had a backlog

of tasks for delivery.

So we talked about what was happening

for her and we talked about what her

routines were in the morning, what it

looked like for her to get work done.

And one of the things that we decided

is we had to look through her diary.

And we decided that she just didn't

have enough room in her diary

to actually do all the delivery.

Pretty important.

I also asked Julie if she would do an

audit for me, a little audit over the

next week using something called Toggle.

I'm sure of you who Use

Toggle, know what it's like.

And if you haven't used

Toggle, it's basically a time

management tracking tool.

It's amazing to see where you're spending

your time, where you're wasting your time

and where you could use your time better.

So I asked her to do that as well.

I am going to come back to Julie because

I think that Julie's not unusual.

I have a lot of clients who at

times feel overwhelmed about the

things that they need to get done.

And I thought today I'd just share with

you a few tips and a few things that I

do that help me with my time management.

First of all, I batch.

sometimes this can be seen as unpopular,

but I batch similar tasks together.

So for instance, if I am in my

email, I will do a stack of emails.

If I am on socials, I

do a sack of socials.

If I'm in delivery, I batch that as well.

Batching means you're not

switching from task to task.

And every time you switch a

task, you lose 25 minutes.

Did you know that?

Oh my goodness.

We don't want to lose time.

We don't want to lose time.

We want to make time work for us.

So we batch what we can.

I work with three things,

three things a day.

I have a master to do list at the

beginning of the week, but each

day I'm like, what are the three

things that I need to get done?

And those three things normally

get done first thing in the

morning because I'm freshest.

I've got good willpower and I've

got good decision skills then.

is a question for you.

Do you find that sometimes

you work better in better,

So for me, I get up at 5.

30 in the morning and my sweet

spot is between 8 and 10.

That's my sweet spot.

For some of my other clients,

it's between 10 and 12.

And so, you just need to find

out what is your sweet spot.

The other thing that my clients

complain about is socials.

So I've got two tips.

We can fall down the social media trap.

You jump on socials to check something

and then all of a sudden, you're down

a rabbit hole and you've lost an hour.

You need to make sure that you've

popped in times in your diary to check

socials and then you need to get off.

The same is with email.

The amount of people I speak to

who start their day on email.

No way, man.

Don't start your day on email.

I don't open my email until

about 10 in the morning.

The reason I don't open my

email is because there's so

many distractions in that thing.

And so I would strongly recommend

that you open email three times a day.

And that is it.

Don't sit there with it open,

turn your notifications off.

Don't have it pinging in the background.

I just think it is a

absolute time waster.

The other thing you can do is outsource

the things that you really don't like

to do, and we also need to prioritize

the things that we love to do.

The thing about Julie.

Was she came into that

session feeling overwhelmed.

I asked her to let me know in a week,

to do a bit of an audit and to tell

me what things that she had noticed.

The things that she had noticed

in that week is that she

wasn't prioritizing her work.

and we knew that from our

conversation, but also she was

spending a lot of time online.

So instead of, coming into the office,

she had an office coming into the office.

She would whack the kettle

on and then she would.

Jump on a news website and read

the news and then get distracted

and go down a rabbit hole.

So we had to almost change her habits.

So when she went and popped

the kettle on, she could only

come back and start work.

No emails, no rabbit warrens of news.

We also got her to create a spreadsheet

of the backlog of tasks and I

helped her be accountable to getting

those, the backlog of tasks done.

Within a week she was sorted.

She was back on track.

It doesn't take much, but sometimes you

just need someone to go, Hey, what is it?

Let's work through it.

The question for you is

how do you steal back time?

What do you do?

Are you super efficient with your time

and therefore you do not even need to

listen to this podcast or are you like,

Oh yeah, I might need to do those things.

I think it makes you feel far more

in control when you're not checking

your emails and you don't feel

like you're chained to your desk.

So today we've talked about batching.

We've talked about outsourcing.

We've talked about prioritization

and we've talked about not being

held to ransom by our email.

Which ones might you try?

Let us know.

I would love to hear, and

I will be cheering you on.