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Welcome to today's video.

Today, I'm going to give you four strategies to mastering


time management. Let's dive in. You never get more than 24 hours in a day. The vast
majority of people that I talk to that are not doing what they want to do or their
business isn't at the level they want it. To be, or they feel stressed out. About children
or whatever it might be. The thing that I hear reflected to me so often is that I don't
have enough time. Oh, Rob, if I only had enough time, then I would be a millionaire.
If I only had enough time, then I would have a better relationship with my family. And
in reality, what I've come to find is that most of the time in that situation, those
people are just complete trash at time management. Like, they're just terrible at it.
And I was this way for a really long time until I worked at a sales company where they
literally made us come in and bring a scheduler that was every 15 minutes of the day
from 07:00 a.m. until 08:00 p.m. and they forced us to write our schedule down and
plan out every 15 minutes of our day. And what's really crazy is when you plan it
every 15 minutes of your day, you realize you have a whole lot more time than you
think. And you waste a whole lot more time than you think. So if you want more from
your life, you need to be better with your time, and you need to be better in all ways.
You need to be better personally, professionally, emotionally, spiritually, everything.
But you also need to get better with time management. You will not get more than 24
hours in a day, ever. And so, really, what it comes down to is, what do we do with our
time, and how can we be more productive with every minute that we get? And so let's
go into each one of these strategies. A couple of them you may have heard me say
before, but the first one is one of my favorites. The first one is to master your to do
list. Some of you guys out there listening are great with your to do list, and you have
a massive to do list, and you put everything on there, and you color coded and all
that stuff. Some of you don't make a to do list, and you try to keep it all in your head
and stress yourself out. Here's what I recommend, and just try this out and just see
how it works for you. This is something that I started about eight, nine years ago, and
it helped me immensely. Okay? And it is this. Wake up in the morning, and brain
dump everything onto a piece of paper that you have to do. And it could be today, it
could be tomorrow, it could be coming up, like, get everything out of your brain until
it's empty. And then what I want you to do is I want you to close your eyes and I want
you to take that pen and paper, make sure your pen is clicked open. I want you to
close your eyes with the pen and paper in your hand on a new sheet of paper. And I
want you to close your eyes for ten minutes. And this is something that I created
years ago. And I call it the to do list meditation, because I realized when I would sit
down to meditate, everything that I needed to do or every idea would just fly into my
head. And I was like, I can't get my brain to just not think about everything I have to
do in the future. So I was like, I'm just going to use it. And so anytime an idea came

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up, anytime something on my to do list came up, something I forgot about, oh, I
should probably do this today. Oh, I forgot to reach out to her. I just write it down
with my eyes closed. And it's a little bit messy, but no big deal. And what happens is
what's really interesting is about five minutes, seven minutes in, there's not a whole
lot more thoughts that come in. It's almost like your brain empties itself on the piece
of paper and you get to one of the best meditations you've ever had. And then what I
want you to do is I want you to look at that messy piece of paper, look at the to do list
you made before and look at the whole messy piece of paper of all the stuff that just
popped in your head and add it to the to do list. And then it's very, very simple. All
you're going to do is you're going to prioritize these things. Cause a lot of times
people want to check off their to do list. But in reality, most of those things are not
going to change your life. And so what it comes down to is, what is the biggest
priority for you? And so what I want you to do is you circle number one, you circle
number two, you circle number three. And then you go to CV's or Walgreens or
whatever it is, and you get index cards, those little white three by five cards. You can
get the neon colored ones if you like, as well. And you're going to write down number
one, you're going to write down number two, you're going to write down number
three and you're gonna put it in your back pocket and you're going to bring it with
you everywhere today. And you're gonna leave your to do list at home. I'm not saying
the rest of the items on the to do list are not important. What I'm saying is they don't
matter near as much as the top three things. Worry about everything else later. If it
was urgent and important, it would have made it into the top three on that list. And
so what you're really trying to do is not be busy. You're trying to be productive. Like,
if you've ever had a day where you are just working all day long, and at the end of the
day you're like, I feel like I got nothing done. Probably because you were being busy
and not productive. How do you be productive? Check off the most important things
on your to do list. And that's what you do, is you focus on that index card. This is how
you make sure that you get the most important things done every single day. The
thing that I will also say that goes along with this is get. Better at saying no. There's a
lot of things that you do. You need a lot of people out there need to set boundaries
with themselves and with other people by saying no more often and just sticking to
the things that are of the highest priority to you. So that's the first thing, is to master
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