How do you really spend your time?

This is so important!

First let me ask you a question…

Have you ever had a day start and then end and you know you were busy and frantic the whole day, but you don’t really know what you spent your time doing?

Join the club!

It’s similar to spending a day in NYC — you can start with $100 in your wallet and at the end of the day have $1 in your wallet and have NO IDEA what you spent the money on…

This is what I want you to do…

You’ve told me what you would do with 5 extra hours a week (by the way, AWESOME replies on this!)

And I can help you find 5 extra hours a week…

But to do that, I need to know how you are spending your time. I’m going to give you the exercise that I use with my coaching students that has proven to be unbelievably eye opening and life changing!

Here’s the Go Big exercise of the day:

DO IT NOW and Leave the answers here as a comment, I promise you will start to make changes just because you know there are people reading what you are up to…accountability is VERY powerful!

Write down all the things you ‘HAVE TO’ do in a typical week
Write a list of all the things that you ‘HAVE TO’ do that might not come up weekly but come up monthly or every other week
Make sure your lists include EVERYTHING that is a ‘HAVE TO’ (this includes sleeping, eating etc.)
Make sure the list you have ONLY has ‘HAVE TO’ items on it
For every item on your list put the amount of time that it should take…BE REALISTIC (you are probably spending too much time on some items that can take less time AND you are probably under estimating the time needed for other items.)

This is the first step…we’ll go from here, but I want you to see how you REALLY spend your time since that’s the only way you can get on top of things and start spending more time on the things you want to be doing instead of ONLY on the things you have to be doing!

Go Big!

Kristen

If you know anyone that needs this exercise send them over…we’re going to get into this and I want as many people to benefit as possible!

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Law of Attraction | Kristen | October 13, 2009 2:11 am

10 Comments

By tracy, October 13, 2009 @ 5:48 am

weekly have to:

go to work – up 4:30am, home 6:00pm
sleep – 5.5 hrs daily. wish it were 8.0 hrs.
lunch, m-f – 1 hr daily

we have 2 high maintenance doggies:

make breakfast for doggies – 10 mins daily
make dinner for doggies – 20 mins daily
set up snacks for doggies – 15 mins daily
walk doggies – 30 mins daily
clean up potty pads and accidents from doggies – 30 mins daily
wash doggies hineys – 10 mins daily
wash doggies faces – 5 mins daily
brush doggies teeth – 15 mins, every other day
clean doggies anal glands – 20 mins, 1x week

daily ironing – 10 mins
make dinner daily – 30-45 mins
laundry – 1.5 – 2.0 hrs every other day
eat dinner – 1 hour daily
spend time with hubby watching shows – 2-3 hours daily
shower/wash hair daily – 30 mins
read – 1.25 hr each way during commute, or 2.5 hrs daily
groceries – order from peapod every other week – 1 hour
groceries – put away delivered grociers – 2 hours every other week
check email and websites/surf/ – 1.5 hrs daily
spend time with hubby – 4.0 hrs weekly
go through mail – 5 mins daily
stop at bookstore on the way to work – 10 mins every other day
see therapist – 1.0 hrs, 1x week
refill transit card – 10 mins every other week
take doggies to groomer and buy their foody – 3.5 – 4.0 hrs every 3 weeks
run errands on saturdays – 4-5 hrs
misc. errands during the week – cobbler, bakery, dry cleaner – 20 mins every other week
talk to mom – 20 mins every other day

kristen, i put actual time i spend b/c i can’t see how i can whittle any of this down. i really don’t. and just writing about it is making me tired. i need a nap, lol.
By Rosemary, October 13, 2009 @ 8:27 am

Oh, my goodness. Just writing it all down takes valuable time. I\’ve printed this out and will take it to the office, so I can write those tasks down.

What do you do with all the e-mail that accumulates in the in-box? I have one here that had 362 unread e-mails in it because I hadn\’t spent (wasted) my time going online. Then, there\’s the one at work for which, fortunately, I can set up \"rules\" so that extraneous e-mails to which I might want or need to refer can be automatically sent to different folders. E-mail was supposed to help us save time, but now it has become a chore.

Rosemary
By Lallie, October 13, 2009 @ 12:52 pm

Hi
Weekly I go to work ; up at 4:30 evryday
sleel average 5.5.hrs. Start school at 7.30 finish 2.30 lunch breaks -40min per day.
Mon & Tuesday attend lectures takes approx 40min to drive there and 40min to drive back depending on traffic.
Mark assignments, complete admin work- 2hours
cook for family – 1 hour
complete assignments for college 1.5. hrs
supervise my children’s homework 1 hour
attend to household matters eg. phone service providers 30 min.

Kristen there are so many things that we do for ourselves that it is almost impossible to write everything down. Iam just so exhausted today because I went for a meeting with education officials and then went to college all this after a long day at school with approximately 48 learners in each class. How on earth can I find more time? I have tried buut then it means sleeping later and the next day is wasted, because I am so tired. But I am open to suggestions & look forward to your reply;

Lallie
By Kristen, October 13, 2009 @ 4:21 pm

Hi there!

Is there any way for you to start to chunk similar items together? And, is there any way you can leverage out some of what you are doing so that you are getting some assistance?
By Kristen, October 13, 2009 @ 4:24 pm

When you have 362 emails, how many would you estimate actually NEED your attention?

You can set up filters in your email so that it files things automatically into separate folders (I know you are doing this at work, but you can do it at home too.)
By Kristen, October 13, 2009 @ 4:26 pm

Is there anyone who can help you with your furry friends?

Also, start trying to group things together that are similar so you can be focused on one area, you will be amazed how much faster you’ll get things done when you do that!
By Velda, October 13, 2009 @ 8:29 pm

Have to: Go to work 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and fix issues the manager is responsible for (Really not motivated to get up and go there but do a good job despite this).

Don’t have to but want to: 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. go to check on my Mother, Niece, and Nephew and help my Niece and Nephew with homework (math) if needed.

7:30 p.m. at my apartment where I catch up on lessons/lectures from the internet (seminars, wealth maps, etc.). I spend approximately 10 hours a week for this. I manage to watch a little T.V.

Have to find time to clean, exercise, work on my projects, grocery shop, eat, sleep is lacking lately which is mentally affecting me, etc.

There is so much more that I can’t possibly write.
By Tracy, October 14, 2009 @ 3:36 am

Kristen, unfortunately daily care of my doggies is all on me. Hubby only helps if I’m ill, and then just the bare minimum. No way I would trust anyone else. Lola and Sophie are like our children.
By Kristen, October 14, 2009 @ 8:53 am

No worries…we’ll figure it out!
By jack, November 7, 2009 @ 5:38 am

next week i have to eat break fasts diners and lunches out of that i have to go out to the park, go to the library, on saturdays& sundays at 2;00-6;00 afternoon watch the premier league foot ball every tuesday evening at 7;00-9;30 i go to the church i wast most of my time reading books on the library afternoon as wel as morning