Time 4 U!
Guard your personal time like a mama bear would her cubs. Commitments to family, church, quiet time, rest and workouts fall into the category of “can’t-miss appointments.” Personal time promises should be etched in stone. This scheduling doesn’t happen on its own. Disciplining yourself to honor appointments that are scheduled for your well-being will pay huge dividends with regard to balancing your life and increasing your personal productivity.
So let’s look at overall productivity when we schedule time for exercise in our day. You cannot deny that your motivation, energy, and mood increase greatly. When those factors are in place you get more accomplished at work and home thus, creating more of that free time that we all so desperately crave. Many work so hard today that they do not even try to find 30 minutes in their day. How about scheduling a master plan by prioritizing goals? If you are not accomplishing your daily goals, differentiate between goals, busywork, activities, and accomplishments. Prioritization rules here in relation to the goals you want to accomplish. In other words, was what you completed during the day written on the schedule? If we were honest with ourselves, we would have to admit we get off track quite often. It is a good chance that what you’re actually doing instead is mindless, easy, or fun rather than productive. Distractions and activity not related to goal accomplishment should be labeled as time wasters.
I recall one Sunday afternoon my daughter had homework to do that she said would take about 40 minutes. Two hours later, I go in her room and is face-timing her BFF and barely begun the work. It took her 3 hours to get it done. Wow, time to pull devices at homework-time. She wonders why she has no time left to clean her room. Go ahead and analyze your day? How much time were you checking emails, social media, surfing websites, texting a friend? Get a real picture of how you truly spend your day. Then once you identify the time wasters, eliminate them and set specific goals. For example, “I will not be on a computer or on phone from 2-4 on a specific day and clean out my closet and get organized.” You may even set a goal for a garage sale or bring clothes to a thrift shop and make a little extra money so when you finally have some free time, you’ll have money to splurge.
Get creative to get exercise in. I have had a major change in my daily schedule with new clients, school in full-swing, meetings, and soccer games every weekend in various parts of the state, and regular soccer practices with travel time of 1 hour and 20 minutes. I know; crazy, right? Well decided to do my cardio during my kid’s soccer practices instead of sitting in my comfy chair watching them exercise. I found a trail with an exercise circuit that the parents were using and it is all shaded and just awesome. And what is so nice is that other soccer moms and dads are on the trail doing it too.
Remember how good exercise makes you feel physically, mentally, and how productive you will be. Make your master plan, set goals and prioritize so you will get back on track feeling amazing, and finally taking time for you!
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