Make Friends with Time in 2024
What's Your Typical New Year's Pattern?
Do you start off winging it, hoping to figure things out along the way? Or do you set ambitious goals, only to find your energy waning by March-is?
Or maybe you're part of the rare breed that sets clear, intentional goals and crafts a schedule to ensure your success?
Time is a Fickle Friend
Time has a peculiar way of stretching and contracting – days that feel endless and years that vanish in a blink. I've especially noticed this since becoming a parent. The modern world, with its myriad distractions (yes, even without kids), makes the sensation of 'time flying' more accurate.
How often have you fallen into the smartphone abyss, losing hours to mindless scrolling or watching? For many, this is a daily occurrence, leading to hundreds of lost hours annually.
The issue isn't a lack of time, but a lack of structure, focus & discipline.
Blocking Creative Inspiration
Every time we succumb to digital distractions, we block the flow of creative inspiration that is always seeking to be expressed through us.
We shut ourselves off from the Muse, who is eagerly waiting to guide our creative endeavours. The Muse luxuriates in days where we take space for ourselves to that FINALLY her voice can be heard.
As a Creator, I am in service to my Muse.
Every business idea, book written, project completed and vision executed is because of that creative spirit that I am in constant communion and connection with.
When I got for walks in nature, I am talking to my Muse.
When I am seeking clarity, I ask my Muse to guide me.
When I am bored with my work, I ask for my Muse to make it more fun.
But most people are disconnected from their Muse, due to distractions and digital addictions. We need to take back our time, attention & focus if we want to bring our best work forward into the world this year!
This Year, Let's Ignite Your Creative Fire
I envision a year where you're creatively unstoppable, where your passion is palpable, and your work not only fulfills you but also boosts your financial wellbeing.
I envision a year where you joyfully and triumphantly cross the finish line project-after-project. Gone are the days of starting & stopping or never finishing because you become overwhelmed or discouraged at the mountain you need to climb.
This is the year you've dreamt of, but never quite grasped – but there is one very important caveat for all of this to come true:
The Big 'But' – You Need to Schedule Your Success
To make this dream a reality, you must befriend time. Your intentions make way for the plan and roadmap. The roadmap turns into your to-do list; the steps to achievement.
Your to-do list, if it's every going to get done, needs to be scheduled and treated as sacred commitments. Without this structure, goals become wishful thinking, easily derailed by life's unpredictability.
Most Fail, But You Don't Have To!
I have literally coached and supported thousands of entrepreneurs and creators over the last 12+ years.
But here is the honest truth...
So many fail; and not because of a lack of skill, passion or talent.
It is usually because they have a lack of focus, structure and ability to see the big picture, while taking small, daily action steps forward.
I have been telling clients & community members to "Schedule Your Success" for over a decade. This has been my mantra for almost two decades. It is why I have created as much as I have in 20 years.
Everything you want to do is possible. You just need to carve the time out for it.
If mastery is achieved in 10,000 hours of practice, I can guarantee you there has never been a master who achieved those 10,000 hours without some time management skills, focus and discipline!
By theming your days and adhering to a structured schedule, you'll tackle your goals one step at a time. This approach transforms lofty dreams into achievable realities.
Scheduling is NOT Sexy, But it is Necessary
If you don't schedule your success, you are more likely to let distractions creep in OR spin the wheels, wasting many hours because you're unclear of what to use THIS two hour time block for.
If you don't make friends with time, then you will begin to resent it, because you never have enough of it.
Getting to the top of the metaphorical mountain this year is completely within reach for you, and for all of us! We just need to take the necessary daily action steps forward... and making the time for those action steps is an essential part of the journey to the top....
All that can be figured out if you make time for it.
Need Support & Inspiration with your 2024 Schedule?
Join the FREEDOM MAP 2024 Workshop, Friday!
If you're ready to transform your relationship with time, to strategize and map out your year with some proven scheduling hacks, join my FREEDOM MAP 2024 Workshop this Friday.
It's time to make this year the one where all your hard work pays off.
Let's start this year with clarity, intention, and organization.
I'm excited to see you there on Friday!