Open Door Conversations

Ep 76: Time Awareness

Episode Summary

Do you feel stressed, busy, and short on time? If so, it's time to get a handle on what you do and when you do it. Here, Akua expands on last week's episode, cultivating self-awareness and presenting your personality in the form of SOPs to team members. This week, Akua focuses specifically on how to be more time-aware as a conscious leader and how it can help you move from fire-fighting mode into strategic leadership. Find out what questions to ask yourself and how to reflect on your time management to become more productive, prioritize better, and protect one of your most precious commodities - your time! Akua walks you through the steps she uses to do a time audit, not just to find out what you do and when, but how you feel during those times. This helps prioritize different tasks depending on the time of day or even the day of the week.

Episode Notes

Do you feel stressed, busy, and short on time? If so, it's time to get a handle on what you do and when you do it. Here, Akua expands on last week's episode, cultivating self-awareness and presenting your personality in the form of SOPs to team members. This week, Akua focuses specifically on how to be more time-aware as a conscious leader and how it can help you move from fire-fighting mode into strategic leadership.

Find out what questions to ask yourself and how to reflect on your time management to become more productive, prioritize better, and protect one of your most precious commodities - your time!

Akua walks you through the steps she uses to do a time audit, not just to find out what you do and when, but how you feel during those times. This helps prioritize different tasks depending on the time of day or even the day of the week.

Highlights in this episode:

• Knowing your own personality isn't complete unless you understand your relationship with time.
• How leaders spend their time is a true indicator of what is truly valued; because everyone is different, they will prioritize their time differently.
• Akua gives a valuable list of questions to ask yourself about your own personality and how it relates to time management and productivity.
• Learn how to create boundaries around your time in order for your team members to best utilize you.
   

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Recourses mentioned in the episode: 

• Blog post:Time is Manufactured in the Mind
• Blog post: The Best Questions to Ask to Quickly Realign With Your TOP Priorities
• Blog post: 10 Exercises You Can Do to Increase Productivity And Practice Mindfulness Every Day as a Busy Business Owner
• Blog post: 3 Steps to Prioritize Better

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