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5 Powerful Questions To Design Your Time More Effectively

Published 10/5/2022

Stop and think about how you are spending your time.

Time is constantly moving, whether we stop to recognize it or not. How will you spend it? These five powerful questions will help you reconfigure your time today.

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Transcript (Generated by OpenAI Whisper)

We say it on the show all the time, questions are powerful. And in today's episode, I'm going to ask a few powerful questions for you to think about. It's a very simple concept here today, but hopefully these will be helpful, enlightening for you. So we're going to ask five questions today. We're going to jump straight in. First, today, am I doing things that I care about or things I only wish I cared about? Think about this for a second. Am I doing things that I care about or things I only wish that I cared about? If you have ever tried to do a values definition for yourself, this might feel very, very familiar. What do you value and what do you wish you valued? These are two different lists. Sometimes there is overlap. Sometimes we are happy with the things that we are actually valuing in our lives. Other times we have some idea of who we would like to be that is in conflict with some reality about ourselves. And this specific question is about how you're actually acting this out. Are you doing things today to perpetuate some kind of picture of yourself that isn't true to who you really are? This is maybe a difficult question to ask, and it may be a concept that you've never encountered before. So spend some time with it. It might make sense to journal on it to consider that. As a variation on this same question, you can ask, what did I do yesterday that I didn't, actually care about doing? What did I choose to do yesterday? What did I spend my time doing yesterday that I didn't really care about and why? Now, there may be answers that say, well, I did something that I didn't care about doing because it got me something that I do care about, right? Some of the work that we do, we may not necessarily care about as much as other work that we do, but for one reason or another, it's necessary. It's necessary for us to continue doing a job. It's necessary for us to get the money that we need to keep living our lives or whatever the thing is, but it's important to face this reality because time is our most precious resource. And so the way that you're spending your time, as much as you can align that with what you care about, the better. We're going to take a quick sponsor break and then we'll come back and talk about the other three questions. So thank you so much for joining us today. We'll see you next time. Bye.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!