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Podcast Episode 57 — Surprising Time Management Secrets

Lisa Sealey
4 min readJan 24, 2022
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One certainty in life is that time is limited. While no one is sure how many years they will be given to finish doing what they want to do, everything is equal for each day you are given. Everyone has the same 24-hour day to dream, determine goals, and complete tasks that will help them meet those goals. But it does seem like some people are just better at time management than others. Surprisingly, there are some time management secrets that may make you feel like you have more hours in your day.

Set Priorities

There are really only four choices:

1. Most important
2. Most urgent
3. Least important
4. Least urgent

When you identify tasks and set your priorities carefully by what is important and what is not important and address the issue of urgency for each task, you can get a handle on your time in ways that you never thought possible.

Learn the Power of No

I wrote about this in another article, and you can read that here.

Saying no is probably one of the most important things you will ever learn to say. The problem is that most of our parents taught us from an early age that no is not an acceptable answer. It’s time to…

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Lisa Sealey
Lisa Sealey

Written by Lisa Sealey

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