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See capitalone.com for details. Foreign. Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. I put out episodes four times a week to help you learn and grow and improve yourself. Because if you can improve yourself, you can improve your life. So if that's what you want to do, hit that subscribe button and follow along. Today I'm going to be talking about strategies to improve your time management and let's dive in. I want to start off by saying this. You never get more than 24 hours in a day. Many people who I talk to, the vast majority of people that I talk to that are not doing what they want to do or their business isn't at the level they want it to be, or they feel stressed out about children or whatever it might be, the thing that I hear reflected to me so often is that I don't have enough time. Oh Rob, if I only had enough time, then I would be a millionaire. If I only had enough time, then I would have a better relationship with my family. And in reality, what I've come to find is that most of the time in that situation, those people are just complete trash at time management like they're just terrible at it. And I was this way for a really long time until I worked at a sales company and where they literally made us come in and bring a scheduler that was every 15 minutes of the day from 7am until 8pm and they forced us to write our schedule down and plan out every 15 minutes of our day. And what's really crazy is when you plan it out every 15 minutes of your day, you realize you have a whole lot more time than you think. And you waste a whole lot more time than you think. So if you want more from your life, you need to be better with your time. And you need to be better in all ways. You need to be better personally, professionally, emotionally, spiritually, everything. But you also need to get better with time management. You will not get more than 24 hours in a day ever. And so really what it comes down to is, what do we do with our time? And how can we be more productive with every minute that we get? And so let's go into each one of these strategies. A couple of them. You may have heard me say before, but the first one is one of my favorites. The first one is to master your to do list. Some of you guys out there listening are great with your to do list. And you have a massive to do list. And you put everything on there and you color code it and all that stuff. Some of you don't make a to do list. And you try to keep it all in your head and stress yourself out. Here's what I recommend, and just try this out and just see how it works for you. This is something that I started about eight, nine years ago, and it helped me immensely. Okay? And it is this. Wake up in the morning and brain dump everything onto a piece of paper that you have to do. And it could be today, it could be tomorrow, it could be coming up, like, get everything out of your brain until it's empty. And then what I want you to do is I want you to close your eyes, and I want you to take that pen and paper. Make sure your pen is clicked open. I want you to close your eyes with a pen and paper in your hand on a new sheet of paper. And I want you to close your eyes for 10 minutes. And this is something that I created years ago. And I call it the to do list meditation. Cause I realized when I would sit down to meditate and everything that I needed to do or every idea would just fly into my head. And I was like, I can't get my brain to just not think about everything I have to do in the future. So I was like, I'm just going to use it. And so anytime an idea came up, anytime something on my to do list came up, something I forgot about, oh, I should probably do this today. Oh, I forgot to reach out to her. Just write it down with my eyes closed. And it's a little bit messy, but no big deal. And what happens is, what's really interesting is about five minutes, seven minutes in, there's not a whole lot more thoughts that come in. It's almost like your brain empties itself on the piece of paper and you get to one of the best meditations you've ever had. And then what I want you to do is I want you to look at that messy piece of paper, look at the to do list you made before, and look at the whole messy piece of paper of all the stuff that just popped in your head and add it to the to do list. And then it's very, very simple. All you're going to do is you're going to prioritize these things because a lot of times people want to check off their to do list. But in reality, most of those things are not going to change your life. And so what it comes down to is what is the biggest priority for you? And so what I want you to do is you circle number one, you circle number two, you circle number three, and then you go to CVS or Walgreens or whatever it is, and you get index cards, those little white three by five cards. You can get the neon colored ones if you like as well. And you're going to write down number one, you're going to write down number two, you're going to write down number three and you're going to put it in your back pocket and you're going to bring it with you everywhere today. And you're going to leave your to do list at home. I'm not saying the rest of the items on the to do list are not important. What I'm saying is they don't matter near as much as the top three things. Worry about everything else later. If it was urgent and important, it would have made it into the top three on that list. And so what you're really trying to do is not be busy. You're trying to be productive. Like if you've ever had a day where you are just working all day long and at the end of the day you're like, I feel like I got nothing done, probably because you were being busy and not productive. How do you be productive? Check off the most important things on your to do list. And that's what you do, is you focus on that index card. This is how you make sure that you get the most important things done every single day. The thing that I will also say that goes along with this is get better at saying no. There's a lot of things that you do. You need a lot of people out there need to set boundaries with themselves and with other people by saying no more often and just sticking to the things that are of the highest priority to you. So that's the first thing is to master your to do list through these strategies. Second thing I want you to do is to master your schedule.