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1. Introduction: Let's improve our productivity
and let's take care of our well-being and make sure
that we don't get exhausted. I'm Dr. Houston ago Harris
and I help professionals, freelancers and managers
improve their productivity, improve their time
management skills, whilst also taking care of themselves and achieving
amazing work-life balance. In this class, I
would like to share some tips on how to manage
your attention backer. So you are able to focus on all of those difficult,
challenging tasks. How to respect your energy and make sure that
you are productive. But you also feel great. We will talk about
organizing your tasks. So how can we make sure that
we get everything done, that we don't miss
our deadlines, but we also have
enough time for all of those unexpected situations and all of those fires that
we have to deal with. We will talk so
much about setting goals, reflecting on priorities, making sure that you have enough time for the
things that are really, really important for you, but also things that are important but are
not so allergens, so you always forget about them. Basically, this class will show you how to manage yourself and your time better to
achieve greater results at work and also take
care of yourself. Because that's the most
important thing that we can. Altair. Thank you so much
and see you in the class
2. Project: Welcome to the project
for this class, I would like to show you the workbook that we will
be using in the project. The horrible campaigns,
a couple of exercises, activities that are
related to sessions. In this class. Our first activity is
the energy tracker, something that will
really help you manage your energy
levels better? I encourage you to do
it for at least a week. And if possible, revisit this exercise
every now and again, just to make sure
that nothing changed. Have a little quiz just to make sure that we reflect on all of those time management ideas and their favorite
activity in the workbook. A sellable simplification. This is probably my
favorite activity in the workbook, to be honest. I would like to invite
you to experiment with a different simplification
every day for at least a week. For example, on a Monday, it can be something
like not checking your social media before lunch. On a Tuesday. It can be something
like closing your email when you are writing
on Wednesday. It can be something like keeping only one tab open in your
browser at one time. So basically see what's feasible for you
to see what works. See what happens with your
energy and your attention. When you experiment
with those different, with those different ways
of simplifying your life. The next activity all
about priorities. Try to think about your tasks
for today, for this week. How can you categorize them? Maybe something can be
removed from the list. And finally, there is an organizer that will
allow you to block time, block activities for a day, and plan your day, taking into account
your energy levels, taking into account
your priorities. So everything will come
together in this activity. Once you do that, I would like to encourage you to reflect on the next steps. So what would you like
to take from this class? Is there something that you
would like to stop doing? For example, checking your
email every five-minutes. I know that I should do it
who's definitely helped me? Perhaps there is
some things that you'd like to continue doing, something amazing
that you already do. Or maybe there is a habit that
you would like to develop. So for example, at
can be something like reflecting on your
goals for each week, are reflecting on your
priorities for you. Tweak the beginning of a week. So yeah, just make sure that you have a plan for the
next couple of days or weeks on how you can use all of the knowledge from this
class in your daily life. I can't wait to
see your results. Good luck with that. It will require a lot
of self-reflection. And I will see you
in the next class.
3. Managaing attention: Welcome to Session one. This is the most important
skill that we will learn in this class, adds
attention management. So if you want to
do one thing to improve your productivity
and your time management, I would strongly advise you focus on the zest
particulary scale. And I think that many people nowadays had a
problem with that. At the moment, I am trying to
write an important article. It requires a lot of
creativity, a lot thinking, a lot of analytical thinking, basically, a good
amount of deep work. And I've been finding it
very difficult recently. Because every time I
sit down to write, I get an email and
I get distracted. Or I receive a message, or someone comes over
and asks me a question, and I lose my focus. And I'm sure that that's a very common experience
for you as well. Versus the illusion
that we are able to switch between different
tasks without any cost. And it is an illusion. Research has shown that when we switch between tasks,
we lose accuracy. We tend to make more mistakes. But we also work slowly and we lose some of our focus and
a lot of productivity. Actually, one of the studies
involved asking people to perform and mathematical tasks switch between
different activities. And those participants
who are asked to switch a lot perform, performed fairly
worse, but also made more mistakes and perform
their tasks maurice slowly. So one of the very
important idea that I would like to convey here is that
multitasking is a myth. Very often we think that when we do many different
things at one time, we are more productive because we are getting all of
those things done. But an illusion really. And it's quite easy to measure the cost of trying to do several different
things at once. So we have to get
rid of this idea. Now, one thing that I
think is very common in our modern lives is the
so-called media multitasking. Whenever I do something, I usually have several
tabs on my browser open. I have my e-mail open stand
where I have my phone nearby. And this is really unhealthy. I really didn't know
why I keep doing that. B here is this media over similar overstimulation
takes a huge toll on our ability to concentrate
and focus on our past. Research shows that our average attention
span dropped from around 12 s in 2000 to
8 s. At the moment. Maybe this doesn't
sound like much, but it makes a difference when it comes to our
ability to focus on reading long complex texts and understanding
complex problems. So I don't know if
you have experienced this change in
focus in yourself. I would strongly encourage
you to reflect on that and try to be mindful next time you try to
read a longer text. Is it as easy as it used to be? Or is it perhaps more difficult? Basically, multitasking
and especially consuming too much information from various media sources can lead to impaired
memory or long term, and no one wants that. It makes it difficult for us to sustain attention for a
longer period of time. Versus motor because this is a serious problem that
affects most of us. Basically, multitasking
makes you slower. It increases the
risk of mistakes. It in Paris your
memory and to make it difficult for you to
focus in the long term. So what can we do? How can we use this knowledge to improve
our productivity? Well, first of all, I would like to encourage
you to become a detective in your everyday life and try
to identify time fifths. Times. Thieves are all
of those things that steal your attention and your focus in your
everyday life. It may be your social media. It may be your email that you check every 5 s. I know that I teach at maybe your
phone or maybe it's just a TV that
plays in the background. And you don't even
notice anymore, but it's constantly
stealing your mind space. So just to reflect what is happening in your
environment at the moment, is it the right
environment to focus? So once you identify things
that do steal your attention, you can simplify
your environment. So I'm a huge fan of simplification in
the everyday lives. I tried to work on
one thing at a time. And my examples of simplifications
include, for example, not using my phone early
in the morning or not checking my social
media before lunchtime. So I really have a couple
of hours in the morning for deep work and
for deep focus. Simplification, well, really produce amazing results when it comes to your attention. Another great opportunity to practice a candidate is
when you talk to people. In fact, I think that's
the best time to practice. So next time you
talk to someone, tried to practice
attentive listening and really focusing on what
the other person is saying. I think that we lose so much in our communication
when we look at our phones or look at other people and then really
listen to other people. So we will definitely
improve the quality of our relationships by paying attention to what the
other person is saying. But we will also
be able to develop our mindfulness
attentional muscle. So that's a great thing to do. And everything, practice focus. Try to do only one thing
for at least 20 min. So when you are reading
an article in a magazine, makes sure that this
is the only thing that you are doing
for at least 20 min. I mean, when I was younger, I used to read for 2 h, 3 h. I didn't really do that
anymore that after I tend to switch between tasks fairly regularly and
that's not healthy. So set your alarm clock and make sure that
you dedicate 20 min, half an hour to one task and you fully commute to
one task only now, emails, no film, no browser
tabs open during a fast time. So basically
Multitasking gives you the illusion of
being productive. You know, you're hustling, you're doing so many
things at once. But basically what you're
doing is you're just losing a lot of energy
and a lot of focus. And I think that you
are wasting energy on things that are not
even so important. So try expanding
your attention span by focusing on one
task at a time. Focusing on the conversations, and simplifying your
life and the festival in the it make you more
productive in a sustainable way. So thank you so much
for this session. In that project, we have an activity related to
attention management. So I hope it goes well and I will see you
in the next session.
4. Learning to prioritize: Welcome to Session two. In the first session we
will talk about priorities. So at the moment, I am still trying to
write my article. That is the problem as it's
not really very urgent. I mean, it's one of those
things that I would love to do. But I do not have
a strict deadline. And there are many things
that are more urgent. I have to be done every day. So I end up spending my entire day focusing
on those daily tasks. And I never get a
chance to write my article as the same
with learning languages. I would love to do that. It's just not the
most urgent thing on my list at the moment. So today I would like us to talk about ways to prioritize. So we can finds time not
only for the urgent tasks, but also further tasks that
are important and meaningful. But we never have the chance to sit down and focus on them. So let's have a look at
this famous quotes about a person who was trying
to cut a tree bath, his soul was quite the Dow. I mean, I think that sometimes it's exactly
what happens to us. We are so busy
with the arrogant, everyday tasks that we just
lose the bigger picture. And we miss out on all of those things that
are important to us. So we're learning to
prioritize us all about improving the processes of scheduling our day and our week. Making sure that we get the most important things done and that we don't
miss our deadlines. But also making sure that all of those things
that are important to us but are not error
terms are not neglected. And we have a time
for them as well. So let's have a look at one
of the tools that we could use to reflect on
our priorities. Because it's all about
self-reflection. It's all about
getting a piece of paper and writing all
of those things than just a very simple matrix that allows us to divide our
tasks into categories. Cell there are two criteria. There is the importance and
there is the error term. So there are usually things
that are very important. Maybe that's
finishing a draft for our most important clients. And perhaps they are
quite arrogant as well. So let's make sure that
they go to the top-left. And there is some things
that are important, but they are not urgent, so we just keep pushing them away and we never
get to do them. So let's put them in
the top right box. And let's make sure that we find time to complete them
sometime next week. And then there are some
feelings and everyone has them. Vets are not as important. I mean, obviously
they have to be done. But maybe they are not key activities that have
to be completed this week. Maybe they are
just some tedious, mundane activities that can
be delegated to someone else. So delegating is an
amazing skill that allows us to deal with
those unimportant tasks. Or maybe just, maybe just
suggesting there are some tasks on our list that we can get
read of completely. Because, well, for some reason they
seem important at once. Bad. They are not so important when it comes
to achieving our tasks. A, When it comes to
reflecting on our priorities. Something that we will help us tremendously is making sure that we have a good
understanding of our long-term goals and
tasks that are urgent, and they absolutely have to
be done today this week at, for example, now sending tax
documents to my accountant. No doubt about that. But there are also tasks
that do not scream But are really important
when it comes to my achieving my long-term tasks. So I would like
to share with you a very simple tool that you can use to reflect on your
longer-term goals. So basically it's a
hierarchical structure where a long-term
goal in forums, smaller, more actionable goals. And those are translated
into specific actions. For example, my long-term
goal, very abstract, very vague, can be to
become a more independent. And I can achieve that by working on some
specific goals and by identifying actions that take me one step closer
to my plug for girls. And I can actually select my priorities in
a meaningful way. So I don't really get
all of the mundane, trivial task with Stan. I also get closer to
my long-term goals. I know what you might be
thinking at the moment. You might be thinking
that, yes, okay, reflecting on
priorities is great. But we also have unexpected situations and they have to be taken
care of immediately. So I think that when it comes to dealing with
unexpected situations, a very useful metaphor as
a metaphor of driving. Like when you are
driving thumb where you really planned every minute, every second of the journey,
that's probably impossible. Well, maybe it depends
on the country. But pretty much you wants to
know where you are carrying. So you want to have this
idea of your end goal. And let's plan our
days in the same way. Let's make sure that we
know what our end goal S, and then we will be
able to navigate difficult, unexpected
situations better. So obviously it's impossible
to plan every minute, every second of our day. But if we know
what our end goals are at well be
easier for us to set priorities and to
make decisions on the everyday basis in
a way that takes us just one step closer
to our goals. So I would like to invite you
to reflect on your goals, to reflect on what is important
to you in the long term. And then every week. And if you want to
maybe every day, try to reflect on
specific priorities for this particular they are a week. And I promise that reverse well make it so much
easier for you to stop wasting time and start focusing on the things
that matter to you. Thank you so much, good luck with your
self-reflection. And I will see you
in the next session.
5. Organising tasks: Session on organizing tasks. This has the most practical
session in the entire class. And I would like
to share with you some practical tools that will help you
organize your tasks. In that daily perspective. Perhaps in a weekly perspective, depends on how you want
to plan your work. I think that when it
comes to planning, obviously we want to prioritize something that we covered
in the previous session. But we also want to
create a draft outline of our day that will help us organize our tasks
in a meaningful way. So I try to plan my week. I tried to plan what tasks I will want to get done
in a given week. That's very important
when I have big projects that require
deep, deep focus. And really a lot of time because not every day of the week works. Okay. For big
projects like this, it's good to plan
those things I've had. But then also on a daily basis, I try to plan my day just to
make sure that I dedicate enough time to specific tasks,
to specific activities. So basically, the first role that I would like
to share with you, I think it's very useful for many of the clients that I work with and for myself as well, is the so-called 64 to
your role of planning. Which is based on the assumption that
unexpected things happen. And we have to account for that. When we plan our
week or our day, it's good to plan our
tasks for the 60% of our time and leave some of it
for unexpected situations. For things that just emerge. Many of my clients say that this principle is indeed
very useful for them. Because sometimes
tasks to stick longer, or sometimes they realized
that they didn't really assess adequately how much time is very well
need for each task. Now, does it always
have to be 60, 40? That obviously depends on
the nature of your work. If your work requires
constant meetings with clients or meetings with stakeholders within
your organization. And not many things depend on. Obviously it will
be better to leave more time for improvisation
for unexpected situations. So this is something
that you will probably have to figure out for yourself on your L that I
would like to encourage you to try to dedicate more than 50 per cent of your
time to planned activities, to activities that are
purposeful, that are meaningful. That you know, that they
are there for a reason. Because if we don't do that, we end up just getting
distracted and getting carried away with with tasks
that comment care. So what I would like to show you now is an example of time. Blocking. The image on the left represents the usual natural flow of the
day of many of my clients. Many of you probably where
when we receive any e-mail, we just immediately
respond to it. When someone approaches as asking for a
conversation with his, engage with this, we end up getting carried away with
all of those small tasks. The problem with that, that indeed will lose a lot
of our focus and energy. When we switch
between those tasks. What I would like
to invite you to experimental wheres
is time of blocking, where I dedicate
half an hour or 1 h solely to writing or to drawing or to designing
Arthur recording. And this is the time where
this is my only task. I don't respond to emails. The time for emails will
be later or maybe I can dedicate 20 min a
day during the day, at the end of the day Just to respond to all
of my e-mails at once. Now, obviously you have to
adjust it to your needs, make sure that you find
a solution that works. However, the benefits
of time of blocking, our tremendous the benefits of time blocking include
greater ability to focus. And it will help you with
your creative tasks. Cell match at will make it easier for you to get
into the state of flow where you just focus
on one task and you get embarrassed and
you don't get distracted. I know that it will
not be feasible for all of you all the time, but I really would like
to encourage you to try as much as possible. Sometimes my clients say that some of the
tasks take longer, require more time, and therefore we need some
of that flexibility. However, on the other hand, there is also the
so-called Parkinson's low. Basically the Parkinson's Law suggests that if we
dedicate or for example, if we plan them more time
for a given activity, this activity will grow to fill the time that
is dedicated for it. So if I give myself
half an hour to finish, a report, will probably managed to finish
it in this time. However, if I dedicate
1 h for my report, probably this activity of
report writing will expand magically to fill
the entire hour. So can I invite you to
experiment with that and try to experiment with how much time you need
for every activity. Maybe you can, maybe you can plan less time for
one given activity. And maybe you will realize that you become more productive. When you give yours more
ambitious. Deadlines. Obviously makes
sure that you don't get stressed that as all sustainable and adds all
possible to accomplish. Just experiment with it
and see what happens. Now when it comes to
planning our activities. There are two schools
that are quite different. They have a very
different approach. One of those schools is the so-called eat the frog approach, which suggests that you
should start the day with the most difficult and
most complex task of data. So the idea is that
once this difficult, important complex task is done, nothing worse will happen
to you on Saturday. So basically in the morning you probably have a lot of energy. So you just get this done. And over then you
can just chill. And two out of those easy, pleasant tasks that are
not sell difficult. Now. So if that doesn't
sound appealing, you may try the
elephant approach. So it wouldn't be impossible to eat an elephant in one go. I mean, I don't even know why anyone would want
to eat an elephant. But basically if you
wanted to do so, it will be just won a big meal. You will have to do it
one bite at a time. And this is the basic premise of this approach to complex,
difficult tasks. Instead of trying to tackle this massive
task all at once, that sounds so scary. You can divide it
into smaller steps. What is the first
step of this project? Is that choosing the
topic of your speech. Is it then choosing the
right resources as it, than choosing the visuals? And the benefits of
that are quite big. When we talk about
procrastination In the future. We will definitely talk
about this tall again, because this approach is
a very useful in dealing with procrastination that
is caused by an anxiety. Basically, it allows
us to make all of those difficult tasks
more manageable. So also, when it comes
to eating, the frog, approach at will probably
work for those of you who have more energy early in the morning and the
first half of the day. And this is something that
we will reflect on in class five in session five when we talk about
managing your energy. So I just wanted to
show you some tools and techniques that are useful for
me and many of my clients. And I would like
to invite you to experiment with them and
see what works for you. There are no techniques that work for absolutely everyone. Techniques are useful for
some people in some context. You just have to see
what works for you, what brings you benefits. And obviously, we have
activities related to organizing your tasks in our
workbook in the projects. Thank you so much and I will
see you in the next session.
6. Overcoming procrastination: Session far. And this is such
an important topic as a problem for many of us, including me at different
times in my life. Procrastination. Procrastination as a
situation where you know that you have an
important project to complete. Maybe you have a big
deadline approaching, but for some reason, you just can't start. Or maybe it's just giving
a very, very slowly. I think that people
who procrastinate often feel very guilty, feel like a failure. Feel that they should be doing something that they just can't. So can I just say that
feeling guilty will not help you overcome
procrastination. Know f will actually
make things much worse. Because procrastination
is all about emotions. That's not about laziness, ads about experiencing
difficulty emotions. So very often people
procrastinate because of fear of failure or
a fear of judgment. For example, when I
was writing my PhD, that was like a massive task. And it was scary, it was difficult,
it was complex. I wasn't really
sure how to do it. I have never done it before. So I was procrastinating
a bit simply because of this fear of being
charged for my work. And I know from experience that this is something
that happens to many creatives,
many freelancers, because your work as
evaluated all the time. Sometimes perfectionism. The idea that we are
never ready enough, that our work is
never good enough, can lead to
procrastination as well. So perfectionism can
be a good thing if it helps you improve your
standards, grow, learn. But perfectionism
can be deadly trap if it prevents you from doing your work or completing your work
and submitting it. Because it just doesn't
seem perfect enough. Sometimes it's all about
insecurity and self-doubt. So here's my project. Good enough as this report. Good enough. Do I have enough knowledge? Do I have enough
resources to even start with this project? Sometimes we procrastinate
because of boredom, because we just don't find our task interesting
or engaging enough. Basically, what I would
really like to convey in this video as that
procrastination, as not about laziness. It really is all about emotions. And because it's about emotions, we have to look for solutions
that address emotions. Before we talk about solutions, I would like to draw a very
important distinction between the procrastination and then
need to rest and relax. Because sometimes you will
just be too tired to do this project in this given time and your body will just
prevent you from doing that. I think that it's really
important for us to get to know ourselves to gain
the self awareness. We are able to notice the difference between
feeling tired and feeling that I have to rest
now and feeling that something else
is happening here. I should be writing
my report card. But instead of doing that, I'm just cleaning my flat or I'm cooking or
doing anything else. For example, sometimes
when I have to make a difficult presentation, instead of working on
the actual content, I spent so much
time on selecting the right template
then right visuals. And it seems like I'm
doing something useful, but really I'm not. So basically, the first step to overcoming procrastination
is to make sure that you don't criticize
yourself and you don't feel guilty because those things will only make them
matter is Wars, procrastination as
about emotions. So beating yourself up well in there to make
it more difficult Instead of criticizing yourself, try to be curious. Somewhere on, in the
conversation earlier today, said something that
I really loved. Instead of being furious, try to be curious. And this is a great advice when it comes to dealing
with procrastination. Again, become a detective,
tried to investigate. Why am I procrastinate in here? What am I scared off? Why don't I think that this
is good enough and the timer ready to
tackle this project. So be a detective. Also make distractions
really difficult. So this is about
creating an environment where it's difficult to
procrastinate and get distracted. Sometimes, working
from home is not the best option because there are many
distractions in our homes. When you go to the office or
even if you go to a cafe, it might be easier
to focus because you just as just impossible to start cleaning the
cafe they would be grateful at probably would
look quite awkward and weird. So wherever you are, make sure that the environment makes it really difficult
for you to get distracted. This also includes closing
your social media. Unless you are a
social media manager, maybe switching hair fell off, maybe closing your e-mail, making sure that you
focus, focus, focus. And there's just
you and the task. If it helps you to divide
the difficult, big, complex task into
smaller portions that bring you great benefits. That's what I often do. That's what works very
well with for my clients. If you have to prepare a
very difficult project, that looks very scary, try to think, okay, what is the fairest
thing that I can do? And set a goal of only
doing this one thing. You may realize that once you start doing this
one simple thing, you will just continue,
continue, continue. It will become much easier. So eating the
elephant is actually a great technique when it comes to dealing
with procrastination. Obviously it's a challenging, difficult topic for many of us. I hope it goes well. Good luck and see you
in the next session.
7. Managing your energy: Session five,
managing your energy. So important, and we don't
talk about it enough. So very often when we
talk about productivity, we associated with
working harder. Actually, I think that becoming
more productive as about gaining self-awareness and understanding your
energy better. Our bodies, our brains, our minds are like a machine that sometimes needs
to recharge and to refuel. Like if the battery in
your laptop is dying, you cannot push it even
harder to continue working. Now you just have to recharge it as the same with our bodies, our minds, our
cognitive abilities. Especially if you
are a creative, if you engage in
complex creative work versus something that will
give you amazing results. So we want to manage
our energy better because we want to have
good quality lives. We want to have good
work-life balance, but also we want to
improve our productivity. And yes, indeed, we can
improve our productivity by learning to work with our
energy whenever at as possible. So managing your energy is all about self-reflection and
gaining self-awareness. And the first step as
understanding your daily rhythm. What happens with your
energy during the day? I'm a morning person. I know that I have
quite a lot of energy early in the morning. I'm not so energized
in the evening. It might be very
different for you. So I would like to invite you to spend some time on tracking
your energy levels. And to do that, you can use an amazing
tool of an energy drop. Now, something that
looks like this. Basically every hour for a week. Taken note of how you feel. I would like us to do it for at least a week because this will allow us to
identify patterns. If you only do it for one day, you will not really
identify patterns. Maybe you feel better. There's day because it's sunny, or you got some good news. That's why it's good to do it
for a longer period of time just to identify if there
are any irregularities. This activity is also in our
workbook in the project. So this will be our first step. Do I have more energy
in the morning? If so, perhaps I can schedule
all of those complex, difficult tasks for
the early hours of the day and leave simple, mundane tasks for the evenings. That's pretty much what I do
and it works great for me. So first of all, realizing what works for you, then it's good to
reflect on what energizes you and water
drains your energy. And I think that it's
very difficult for many people because we have certain ideas
popular in our society, in our culture that for example, ethanol spending time
with friends should energize you at well, if you are extroverted, however, if you are introverted, you may be more
energized when you just stay at home
and read a book. So again, this will require
a lot of detective work. Realizing too, I
feel better when I go to a concert and
when I'm in a crowd, when I move a lot of people, this will probably give you
a boost of energy again, if you are extroverted. However, if you are
introverted, like myself, going to a concert with
a crowd to a very noisy, loud place with many stimuli
as well, leave your drained. And I actually retired best in quieter places when I
have less stimulation. Detective work. What gives you energy, what allows you to retard, and then make sure that
you actually finds time to do those things and
maybe do more things at work that allow
you to reach out. Instead of just draining here. I think we have to change
our attitudes a bit as well. So when I talk to
people, many people, surprisingly many people
have this attitude that, well, they shouldn't
really be resting. But it's not really
okay to rest. That they actually feel
guilty when they rest. And that makes me so sad because our bodies are
just not designed. I mean, they are just not
designed for constant work. To be productive, to be creative We have to rest because
when we are tired, our creativity staffers,
staffers tremendously. So if you are one of
those people who believe that shouldn't be yellow
pea when I arrest, maybe it's good to work
with this attitude. Challenge it. Why do
I have this attitude? How do, how did they
develop this idea? Is it true I actually have evidence that
supports this idea. And probably you
will know because this idea doesn't
make sense at all, that's a stupid idea and
we should get rid of it. And once you get rid of this
ridiculous, weird idea, you can schedule time for rest and actually scheduled time in your calendar
for doing nothing. Scheduled time for deep work. So this is the time
when you give yourself two or 3 h for
just concentrated, focused, creative work
without distractions. And I promise it will
give you the benefits. Once you realize that
you are allowed to rest, maybe you can
experiment with setting boundaries and sometimes
telling people that, well, you will not be
able to help them or you will not be able to
take on another project. And maybe you can then
experiment with delegating to other people and sometimes
letting go without guilt. So I think that when it comes to working with
honor, our energy, the first step is to realize that this is an important task, it's an important
project and it can give you amazing benefits. Can you then have to work with your attitudes around resting, giving yourself time
to recharge them. It's all about self-reflection
and identifying. When you work best, when you have less energy and you just have to take some rest. So it's all about gaining self-awareness and
getting to know yourself and understanding
what works for you. And once you have a better
understanding and side, you just have to
build your life, your working life as
much as possible. In the line where few
yarn natural nRT levels. Now it maybe sometimes
challenging, but we have to start somewhere versus Saturday
challenging work. We have an activity related to energy management
in our workbook. Thank you so much
for this session and good luck with your work.
8. Final thoughts: Right, in this class we
talked about managing attention, managing your energy. Both of those are so important and there are prerequisites when it
comes to managing time. I think that being able to
manage time and organize your tasks as just a
natural consequence of being able to manage your
attention better and learning about your energy
and respecting kids, respecting your natural
flows of energy. We talked about the
importance of prioritizing. That. We don't just want
to get things done. We want to make sure
that we are getting the most important things
down and that everything that we do is purposeful
and meaningful and we have the time to complete all
of those important tasks. We also talked about
overcoming procrastination. That might be a big
problem for you. Try to experiment with
different ways of doing that. For example, dividing your
tasks into smaller bits. However, the most important
thing when it comes to procrastination, don't
criticize yourself. Don't feel guilty. Just try to understand that. I think that's the most
important takeaway message from this entire class. As that we have to
become detectives and we have to become curious
about ourselves, what works for us? Our energy works,
how our mind works. And this will really
allow us to become a more productive in such
a sustainable way. Thank you so much
for this class. Good luck with your project. And I hope to see
you in other classes
Justyna K., Psychologist, trainer, consultant
