One of the questions I get

asked a lot is, Emma, help me

be better at time management.

It's the wrong question.

What we need to focus

on is energy management.

Do you know how I know this?

Because you do not have enough

energy to show up in your business.

Oh, you are good to no one.

And I had to learn

this the very hard way.

A couple of years ago, I

got COVID as we all did.

And my Turned into long COVID,

then turned into glandular fever.

And so if I didn't rest,

I was going to get worse.

And I was going to get chronic fatigue.

So I had to pull back on everything.

I kept going with my delivery

because I'm very loyal to my clients

and didn't want to let them down.

But I stopped doing anything that was

relationship building, fully knowing

when you have your own business, if

you don't relationship build, it kind

of hurts at the other end, right?

Because we always have to be relationship

building, but also knowing if I

didn't address this health issue,

if I didn't get my energy back, I

would be good for absolutely no one.

There are so many ways to

manage our time, right?

There is no more time.

I wrote a book.

It was called Go Getter

and we talk about time.

And I always hear women say, Oh,

if I just had a few more hours in

the day, Oh, if I could just have

an extra hour, if I could turn back

time, all the things, it just can't

happen, but we can hack our time.

You know, we can, we can.

batch similar items together.

We can turn our email notifications off.

We can set amazing timers.

I use the Pomodoro technique, which

is 25 minutes on, five minutes off.

We can work out when our most

productive time of the day is.

For me, it's first thing in the morning.

I love getting my shoes done

first thing in the morning.

And we can schedule

stuff in our calendar.

They have some great time

hacks and calendar hacks.

if you need them.

But what about energy?

how do we hack our energy?

What do we do with our energy?

How do we make the best of

the energy that we've got?

It's a great question and I've

got some beautiful new habits

now thanks to my glandular fever.

And what I thought I'd do is

just share with you a couple of

things that help me now with my

energy that I take very seriously.

The first thing you

are not going to love.

The first thing is

allowing yourself to rest.

I was one of these people who

was just on and on and on.

Constantly.

And if I sat down, I felt lazy.

That narrative in my head helped

me not have a break, help me not

have a holiday, help me not release

anything that's going on in my head.

So the first thing I had to do was

give myself permission, permission

to rest, which was super duper hard.

and by the way, families make this hard.

Whenever someone sees mom sitting down on

a couch, chances are they will watch you.

In order to manage my energy

now, I have kept the naps up.

See the thing is I had to

create all new habits and I had

to undo all these bad habits.

And so now I've got really good habits

and I'm just wanting to keep them.

I take regular breaks now.

Before I had.

Probably not been as good at holding

on to lunch breaks, toilet breaks, and

morning tea breaks, and afternoon breaks.

Now I realize the importance of

breaks and I actually get out

into the sunshine and walk my dog.

My dog is 14 years old, so

he doesn't walk very far.

It takes 15 minutes to get around

our little block and that's a perfect

amount of time for me to get outside

of the house, outside of my brain,

and outside of the Zoom world,

and give my Brain time to process.

So we do loads of walks

in between sessions.

I'm now up super early I get up

at 515 in the morning and I go

for an hour and a half walk and

that's bliss That is my me time.

If you can do that, please do that.

It's amazing for energy management

It's amazing way to start the day.

I put in an audible book and I

listen as I go And it's just amazing.

I also meditate.

I've meditated for five years.

So I also meditate, which is really

helpful for me just to ground me and

make sure that I'm managing my energy.

And like I said before, rest, I

rest so much and I sleep very well.

I think one of the things that a

lot of women especially do is they

get to the end of the day and like,

Oh, all right, I'm going to have

some time to myself, time to myself.

and then they jump on their phone and

they're like, doom scrolling or they drop

down a social media rabbit Warren and

they miss out on sleep because of it.

And I am very focused on my sleep.

So I am in bed before nine o'clock

because I'm up at five 15 and I

have to get eight hours sleep.

It is a non negotiable for me.

Is that eight hours sleep?

I think that's eight hours sleep.

Anyway, feel free to

let me know if it's not.

And I think that the thing that I

have realized is more energy means

more time and energy for my family

and not just giving them the dregs.

There were years there, I've

been in business for seven years.

I reckon the first two years

were really unsustainable.

I did what I had to do, but I

wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

And I.

Ignored the warning signs.

I ignored the health signs.

I ignored all the things that I

should have been paying attention to.

And also I gave my family the dregs.

No family wants the dregs.

No friends wants the dregs.

No friends wants a boring friend.

People want you when you're engaged

and energetic and enthusiastic.

And for me, that takes, means that I

have to really manage my energy well,

especially since I'm an introvert.

So what happened?

We spent seven months, seven

months getting my health right,

getting my eating right, getting my

exercise right, getting my sleeping

right, getting my resting right.

And now we're back and it's

beautiful and I'm doing nothing

to disturb the peace on that.

And I've come back with way more energy,

way more time in the day because Um,

throughout that time, I had to pare back

on what was urgent versus important,

you know, and we all have to make

some of those decisions sometimes.

We all get wrapped up on

focusing on time, don't we?

What about you?

Are you focused on time or

are you focused on energy?

I would love you just to grab a cuppa

because after all it's tea with a

queen, grab a cuppa and think about

Are you spending your time in the

right areas and are you managing

your energy in the right way?

And chances are you're not because that's

just, we pack our lives full of stuff.

And so what can you do to take

some things away, to take some of

the pressure off and to actually

invest in your own energy?

this is a really important topic

and I would love to hear how you're

going to focus on your energy.

Let us know.