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that is every Sunday, make sure you re evaluating your calendar from a weekly perspective, but also look at the whole month.
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And I ll give you an example of what I m talking about.
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If Michael and I have to go to L.A.
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for four days and we are doing nonstop, and I mean nonstop
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podcasting, work, meetings, dinner meetings, then the day that I come home, I want to be open because I want to have space with my children.
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So I also look at time through a lens of ebbing and flowing.
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So when it s time to work, I put my work hat on.
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But then when it s time to come home and take a beat and take a minute, I also have time and space in my calendar.
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And I do also want to talk about space.
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A successful person, in my opinion, has a lot of space.
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And I talk with Katie a lot.
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You guys have met Katie on the podcast.
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She s our executive assistant about how in my brain, the most successful person has open blanks all over their calendar.
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So in my calendar, I ll have reading time.
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I ll have working out time.
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I ll have walking time.
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I ll have cold plunging time.
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I ll have time with my kids.
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I will have all these space blanks on my calendar.
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I think at the end of the day, and I talk about this all the time internally in the businesses, is like, I never reward, quote unquote, just hard work and time put in.
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I reward impact and for myself as well.
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So I would much rather take eight hours of sleep, take two or three hours in the morning to have a good wake up routine.
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And again, not everyone can do that.
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I get that.
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you know, get a workout in.
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And then when I get to work, if it s a five or six-hour sprint of hard, dedicated, focused work that drives an impact, to me that is much more valuable than spending eight full hours wasting a bunch of time.
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And I was talking to a friend the other day, and he was kind of like blown away that I could be in a position where I m, you know, doing the podcast and running the company, and my workday looks sometimes like
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five to eight hours, sometimes like he s like, how could you have a day where you can get all this done in five hours?
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Like, well, if you do all the other stuff and you re taking the time to read and you re taking the time to think, and you re taking time to actually be thoughtful with your time.
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When I actually go and do the things that I m trying to accomplish, it can be accomplished in a shorter window of time because of all the prep work.
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And because I m being thoughtful with time, if you actually really sit back and audit all the time you waste throughout the day, scrolling, emailing, happy hours, running around the water cooler, all that stuff, and you start to audit and think about it as like, oh, every minute that goes by, if it s not productive, is a waste.
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then I think you ll start to see you really don t need that much time to accomplish a lot of things.
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You just need that window of time when you are trying to accomplish something to be extremely productive.
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So that s how we think about time.
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We think about like what is the most productive way to use it at all time.
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I also think that something for me that I do is I try to do three days in a day.
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So I ll go really hard Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then I ll book in my week with a little bit easier days so I have some space and time with my kids.
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And I ll also theme my days.
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So like today, we podcasted all day long.
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Maybe on another day, we shoot content all day long.
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Maybe on another day, I m doing calls all day long.
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I m really about theming the day so my brain is not switching back and forth.
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Those are some of our tips on time.
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I will say just, I think this is relevant for this episode.
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I think everyone s first hire in a business should be someone who is monitoring your time and helping you schedule and calendar.
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For me, that s number one.
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I don t know if Michael agrees with that.
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No, I think it s that.
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And then I think in your personal life, I think if you were going to start thinking about how to manage your time better right now, I would start actually documenting and journaling for one week straight.
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how you re actually using your time, and you have to be brutally honest.
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If you wake up in the morning and you re sitting there staring at a wall for 30 minutes trying to get your morning right, okay, fine.
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If you re sitting there like, oh, I m going to go have a snack and that snack turns into you pandering around in the kitchen for an hour, or if you re in a meeting and half that meeting, like this isn t a business setting, half the meeting is talking about what Susie did on the weekend, that s a waste of time.
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If you re
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scrolling social media for three hours of the day and you re saying you don t have time for other things like you have to be brutally honest that so just being aware of how you re actually using your time right now and auditing it and actually keeping a time journal and then reformatting your week and days around actually using it productively.
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is going to make a massive impact on your life.
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And I think as soon as you become aware of wasting time, you may be okay with that.
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So, you know, today I really need to waste the time and I m good with that.
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But I think what most people will find is they waste a lot more time than they think they do.
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And just being aware of that is going to pay dividends.
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Two tools that I use, the first one is the Big Ass Calendar.
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It s by Jesse Itzler.
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He s come on the show.
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I think you can use code SKINNY.
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We have planned our entire vacations, everything out in this yearly calendar, and it s been really helpful for Michael and I. Work travel, all sorts of stuff.
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Everything is on this calendar.
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It shows where we re going to be all year.
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It s very helpful.
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And then the second is the skinny confidential planner.
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This is more to plan your time on a daily basis and to really watch how you re spending your time and your day every day.
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And it takes two minutes.
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I use this prompt every single morning for the last like five years.
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It s changed my life.
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You can use code butter for 20% off and grab the planner on shop skinny, confidential.com.
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Thank you guys for listening.
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And we ll see you on Monday.