Up2u Podcast | Whatever Happens In Life Is Up To You

How do you manage your time? Time management is so critical in today's hectic life schedules. Many people have gone paperless but some of us still use a handwritten planner.  In this episode I discuss my downward spiral of slowly going from being an organized person to kind of flying by the seat of my pants. Eventually, I dropped the ball and something fell through the cracks and I realized what I was doing wasn't working.  We also learn 3 rules from author Dr. Todd Dewett about managing our day to day tasks.   Rule 1 - Apply the 80/20 test. 20 percent of the tasks we do are the most important. 80 percent of the tasks are the least important. The 80 percent still needs to be completed but their “less important” than the 20 percent. Our goal is to never spend more than 50% of our time on those tasks in the 80 category. Rule 2 – Find your Einstein Window. That’s the 2 to 4 hour period of the day when you’re at you peak mental ability. Once you know that time, that’s when you need to work on the critical 20 perc