Mindset AMA: #2 When You Don’t Have Enough Time


One of Kelly’s community members asks:
Q: When you don’t have enough time to do what you want to do, how do you find a great mindset to work from?
I initially looked at this as a time management question. However, Kelly points out that this is actually a great mindset question.
Really? How can a question dealing with time be about what or how I think?
Time Management is a Mindset Issue
After watching the video, Kelly helped me grasp how my mindset plays a huge part in how I deal with time management issues. Watch her video to see how she easily breaks down the concepts.
Kelly initially points to a chapter in a book she recommends by Gay Hendricks titled The Big Leap. This book chapter goes into detail on how we as humans reference time as a construct, a way of measuring time from milliseconds, seconds, minutes…weeks, years, etc.
Here’s where the management of time turns into a mindset philosophy.
In reality, a minute of time is not an accurate measure of time when it comes to our personal experience.
The same amount of time is allotted, but I will receive a completely different outcome based on my thoughts on any individual projects I encounter.
What makes the difference between writing an email with time to spare and it never getting done? My mindset!
Make A Mindset Adjustment
As always Kelly herself is a great example of how this concept works and shares that she is in charge of 4 different companies and is able to juggle, prioritize, and choose how to manage her time on a day-to-day and week-to-week basis. If there are many projects that are needed to be tackled on a given day, she decides and prioritizes what actions to take. She is in the driver’s seat.
I put myself in the driver’s seat and say which do I want to do? What do I want to do joyfully and smoothly with passion and excitement in the time I have and I just set the other things down? I reschedule them. I put on the calendar for another day. I do it from a powerful mindset of choosing it. Taking control! Owning my power over time and projects.
All this time, I thought I just needed more hours in the day and yet the entire time it was really a matter of me choosing a great mindset to work with.
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