<p class="p1">Brian Tracy is for me, the guru of strategies to manage time. He gives away many of them on his website, his app &amp; in e-books or you can invest in his CDs or books.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">My fizzy brain &amp; flighty attention span make it a challenge to remain focused each day while running a successful education company. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">Without Tracy's advice I’m not sure I could have achieved, nor enjoyed, such productivity.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">My investments into his evidence based models for managing time, my work &amp; goal planning have allowed me to create content that has given me the life I dreamed of, a life that serves me.</p>
How would that feel for you?

Maybe you are already there? If so well done, but this blog may not be for you, unless however you still struggle to manage your time or if you just feel like you just never have enough!
<p class="p1">Let me share a snippet from Brian Tracy with you &amp; how such simple tools, when implemented, literally change the game!</p>
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<h1 class="p1">Create a simple system, then stick to it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></h1>
<h2>5 Tools &amp; Techniques</h2>
<blockquote><b><img class=" wp-image-30596 alignright" src="https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screenshot-2021-12-09-at-20.23.27-300x229.png" alt="" width="259" height="198" /><em>1. Use A Time Planner And Create A Master List </em></b>

<em><b>2. Work From A List</b></em>

<em><b>3. Organize By Priority</b></em>

<em><b>4. Time Management Tools And Systems</b></em>

<em><b>5. Organize Your Time</b></em></blockquote>
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 	<li class="li1">First of all I spent 2 weeks writing down minute by minute literally every single thing I did. Logging which area of my business the task was for. This allowed me to measure &amp; analyse how much time I spent doing what. This extremely enlightening start point proved a few things straight away. How much time I wasted. How much time I REALLY spent in certain roles. Where I was lacking attention.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
 	<li class="li1">This then allowed me to plan a list of jobs into order of attention, time.</li>
 	<li class="li1">Putting that list then into order of priority was possible.</li>
 	<li class="li1">Next I could gather &amp; implement tools &amp; strategies required for both productivity &amp; areas of weakness.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
 	<li class="li1">This also allowed me to pay attention to &amp; develop a schedule of managed time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
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<p class="p1">Next I was also able to refine my time management even further. Since I’d measured it I could continue to monitor it &amp; repeat the measure - which I still do periodically.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<h2>Adding more tools..</h2>
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Once you have the 5 Tools &amp; Techniques in place for monitoring, allocating and measuring you can then add further tools and more detail into your time management.

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<strong>Psychology of Time Management</strong>

Better understanding your psychology towards time management can help or hinder it. So developing your ability to self reflect and analyse your thought processes is an important practice.

Grab a notebook and regularly write date, what you are thinking including questions but not necessarily feeling the need to answer every question.

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<p class="p1"><strong>Core Values </strong></p>
<p class="p1">What is important to you, your business and why? A great book called Your One Word, helps you with this in great detail along worth the reasons why you should. Even after reading the book I was left with 2 words that I endeavour to weave into literally everything I do within my business. It really helps me when it comes to big decisions.</p>

<h1><img class="size-medium wp-image-30603 alignright" src="https://biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screenshot-2021-12-09-at-20.43.57-198x300.png" alt="" width="198" height="300" />Biomechanics Education =  INTEGRITY &amp; EMPOWERMENT</h1>
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<strong>Keep the vision &amp; gain even more clarity </strong>

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Having that primary aim (see last weeks blog End Goal First) is a vital start point but over time we should add more details &amp; clarity to the vision to allow us to plan, in detail. Ist often the details that can get lost or create such stress for us that seems to be unimportant. However its that attention to detail that makes you and your business stand out.

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<strong>Use 'failure' as a lesson </strong>

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All successful business gurus will tell you they failed numerous times before they made it big. Richard Branson is very vocal about embracing failure. While you may think that you would not compare yourself to Branson, let me stop you right there....learn from those who know! They're just like you and me, they are human too!

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<p class="p1"><strong>ALWAYS WRITE PLANS DOWN!</strong></p>
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This is SO IMPORTANT! If you leave plans in your head they clutter your thoughts and are much harder (if not impossible) to manage, monitor and control. Your can change them, tweak them, show others, hide them, rewrite them, rearrange them, add to them, look at them and see them differently to how you might see them just in your head.

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<p class="p1"><strong>Lists OMG I LOVE LISTS!</strong></p>
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<p class="p1">Plans are one thing but lists and the ability to tick off jobs well that's pure joy! (See point 2 above in 5 tools). Lists allow you to set clear priorities, this helps keep you on track &amp; literally tick off completion of tasks - how satisfying!!</p>
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<p class="p1"><strong>Delegation to others </strong></p>
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This one is tough when you're not earning much yourself BUT WAIT......if you take 4hrs to mow your lawn, but some kid on the street will mow it for £10-20....how much could you earn in those 4hrs you just got back? More than £20? then its worth delegating that job...right!?!?

or

You hate numbers and always dread going through receipts and accounts, so much so you keep putting that job off to the point where it backs up and you get super stressed and you eventually spend hours and hours trying to catch up.....surely it is much easier to take on a book keeper!!

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<p class="p1"><strong>Overcome Procrastination </strong></p>
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This is really really important when you're self employed because you don't have a boss checking you got all those little crappy jobs done too. (See Eat The fFog below)

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<p class="p1"><strong>Digital de-clutter </strong></p>
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<img class="size-medium wp-image-30612 alignright" src="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/sabri-tuzcu-r1EwRkllP1I-unsplash-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" />

Lee Havern, CEO of Platinum Training Institute Belfast, delivered a fabulous workshop at one of our member workshop during lockdown, about how to declutter your digital noise! Control interruptions by switching off alerts, batching tasks into tie slots - like when to go on social media &amp; managing your phone similarly.

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<strong>Effective Meetings</strong>

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<p class="p1">One of my favourite things is to have meetings while out walking instead of inside an office, sitting at desks whenever possible. I try to arrange calls while I am out walking with my headset on too if its feasible. They are often much shorter but far more productive!</p>
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<p class="p1"><strong>Organise Your Space </strong></p>
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Having a nice clear working space make a huge difference, like the idea that making your ed each morning set us up for a more proactive / productive day.

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<h1>Finally one of my favourites....</h1>
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<h1 class="p1">Eat that frog!</h1>
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Tracy is famous for his analogy of eating frogs &amp; he also proved the efficacy of this concept with companies using the strategy &amp; increasing staff productivity by significant margins. Here I share another of my own experiences...

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<p class="p1"><b>Having eaten 4 frogs in 2 days I was feeling pretty pleased with myself…</b>&#x1f438;&#x1f438;&#x1f438;&#x1f438;</p>
<p class="p1"><b>Eating frogs can be a game changer if you are prone to procrastination </b>&#x1f914;</p>

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 	<li class="li3">&#x1f91c;&#x1f3fc;Do you write lists?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
 	<li class="li3">&#x1f91c;&#x1f3fc;Do you struggle getting through them?</li>
 	<li class="li3">&#x1f91c;&#x1f3fc;Do you find yourself picking the ‘nicer’ jobs all the time?</li>
 	<li class="li3">&#x1f91c;&#x1f3fc;Do you see that ‘big gnarly’ job &amp; keep leaving it?</li>
 	<li class="li3">&#x1f91c;&#x1f3fc;Do you re-write your list each day but continue to leave that big gnarly job untouched?</li>
 	<li class="li3">&#x1f91c;&#x1f3fc;Do you convince yourself that you get lots done even though that big gnarly job still hadn’t been started?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
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<p class="p3">&#x1f648;If you said yes to these questions then you &amp; I are prone to procrastinating. However many years ago Brian Tracy taught me an amazing lesson about eating frogs.&#x1f92a;</p>
<p class="p3">&#x1f60a;That big gnarly job that you just keep putting off, the one that is important, needs doing &amp; yet you can’t bring yourself to even start. It’s like thinking about eating a frog!&#x1f438;</p>
<p class="p3">Arrrrgghhhh&#x1f61d;</p>
<p class="p3">&#x270d;&#x1f3fc;Yet if you actually get up &amp; start it before you do anything else each morning…..</p>
<p class="p3">&#x203c;&#xfe0f;If you eat that frog &amp; get that gnarly job done…..</p>
<p class="p3">….you might actually realise it’s not so bad or you discover that you feel so much better that it got done!</p>
<p class="p3">&#x1f438;&#x1f438;&#x1f438;&#x1f438;I’ve had 4 frogs waiting to be eaten<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p3">Then this week I’ve eaten all of them in 2 days!&#x1f91c;&#x1f3fc;&#x1f91b;&#x1f3fc;</p>
<p class="p3">And guess what….</p>
<p class="p3">I feel fantastic!!! &#x1f929;</p>
<p class="p3">Go on...</p>
<p class="p3">...get up tomorrow</p>
<p class="p3">&amp;</p>
<p class="p3">Eat that frog &#x1f438;!!!</p>
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<h1>How are you enjoying this advent series?</h1>
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<h2><em>Why not email me &amp; let me know if any of these posts are helping? </em></h2>
<h2><em>Email me your experience if they have helped? </em></h2>
<h2><em>What more we can do, create, write about to help you and your business?</em></h2>
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<p class="p3">Reference links</p>
<p class="p3"><a href="https://www.briantracy.com/blog/time-management/time-management-tools-and-techniques-time-planner-master-list/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simple system  - 5 time management tools </a></p>
<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-One-Word-Powerful-Creating/dp/014310909X/ref=asc_df_014310909X/?tag=googshopuk-21&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=310816411121&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=5546951103569016778&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9046404&amp;hvtargid=pla-404289615270&amp;psc=1&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Your One Word </a>