#038 How to manage your time effectively; multitasking, productivity and planning ahead

Charelle - the 10 to 6 high powered office gal - with side hustles as a marketing strategist for solopreneurs and founder of the PropelHer’s Book Club, is the Queen of being organised! Her Type A helps enormously with all this PLUS her “read a book a week” challenge (yes, one a week!). She lives in London and is single.

Verity is a female entrepreneur and marketing consultant - without a 9 to 5 - and works 121 as a life and bizz coach to female business owners. Famed for her consumption of 5684 podcasts a week, she lives in Blackpool and has a girlfriend.

The hosts discuss dead time (commuting, travelling, driving, queuing, waiting etc.) and the best way to use this. They talk about the natural cycles of business in terms of months and the year and how to work with them best in regards to your energy, your clients and lifestyle.

Do you know what type of learner you are? Visual, audio, reading, kinesthetic? And do you use this to your advantage when it comes to absorbing information?

They discuss why multitasking is a skill women need to stop - even though we were raised to believe it benefitted us - but how there is a little multitasking trick that they actually encourage you to do. Also, turn off your notifications!

What techniques do you use for productivity? The hosts talk about the Pomodoro one, using Asana, notes on your phone, being realistic with your time and batching content.

Freelancers...nobody in an office works their 8 hours a day, so why are you trying to? Do you know what your time is worth and do you respect that? Verity has started to become laser focused on her current goals and leave small talk conversations at the door! Charelle talks about the uncomfortable feelings around employing people to do jobs that are not in our optimum skill set - including cleaning!

They chat being late, failing at techniques and in a world of technology, the good old pen and paper. Enjoy!

James Wedmore Business By Design https://www.jameswedmoretraining.com/

PropelHer’s resources

7 ways to maximise your productivity - https://www.propelher.co.uk/7-ways-to-maximise-productivity/

The importance of using a planner, diary or calendar - https://www.propelher.co.uk/importance-using-planner-diary-calendar-productivity-hacks/

Eat That Frog Book - https://amzn.to/2Mmjn74

Todd Herman https://toddherman.me/

Pomodoro technique https://www.themuse.com/advice/take-it-from-someone-who-hates-productivity-hacksthe-pomodoro-technique-actually-works

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Your hosts are...

Charelle Griffith, 31, is a marketing strategist for solopreneurs and founder of PropelHer, a personal development blog and book club. She lives in London, dates men and has been single for 4 years (except for a summer romance in 2018). Connect with Charelle https://www.instagram.com/charellegriffith/ 

Verity Brown, 33, helps female entrepreneurs reconnect with themselves and find happiness and currently lives in the North of England. She is bisexual and after 3.5 years single has recently found love with a woman. Connect with Verity https://www.instagram.com/theseasaltplan/