The Insanely Practical Guide on How to Effectively Manage Your Time

by | Leadership, Personal Growth

Most time management methods focus on getting more done in less time. In other words, it’s about employing tips and tricks, tactics and tools, to squeeze more productivity out of every minute. That’s an important part of time management, but it’s incomplete. 

In my new resource, The Insanely Practical Guide on How to Effectively Manage Your Time, you’ll learn how to leverage the three essential circles of time management to achieve the highest levels of effectiveness: WHY (Purpose & Values), WHERE (Roles & Priorities), and HOW (Planning & Boundaries).

Without the “Why” circle (a well-defined purpose and clearly stated values), you’ll efficiently manage your time to accomplish the wrong things. That’s not a picture of success, much less significance. Who cares if you get the wrong things done quicker. 

Once you identify the “Why” circle, you must choose the roles and priorities that will help you fulfill your purpose and values. Roles and priorities are “Where” you’ll invest your time. The “Where” circle ensures alignment with your purpose and values.

Then, once you’ve established clear priorities for each role, you must engage the third circle—“How.” “How” keeps your priorities in focus with two important practices: planning and boundaries. Planning is about creating a system to maximize the minutes in your day. And boundaries are the guardrails that protect the use of your time. Without boundaries, somebody else will determine how you spend your time.

The Insanely Practical Guide on How to Effectively Manage Your Time will help you define all three circles to maximize your time management efforts. So, what happens when one of the time management circles is missing?

  • Time management without purpose and values equals an UNFULFILLED LIFE.
  • Time management without roles and priorities equals an UNFOCUSED LIFE.
  • Time management without planning and boundaries equals an UNHEALTHY LIFE. 

This 35-page downloadable guide will help you maximize your time, make your greatest impact, and equip you to live a fulfilled, focused, and healthy life. Order a copy HERE for only $9.99, and be sure to check out other Insanely Practical Guides in the series.

Stephen Blandino

Stephen Blandino

Pastor | Author | Coach | Podcaster

Leaders today are frustrated by a lack of clarity, ineffective systems, dysfunctional teams, and unhealthy cultures. I speak, coach, and write to help motivated pastors and leaders gain clarity, build high-performing teams, and maximize organizational health.

THE LEADER FLUENT PODCAST

FREE RESOURCES

FINALLY... LEADERSHIP FOR THE REST OF US

Most of us are not natural-born leaders. Instead, through trial and error, we were left to figure leadership out the hard way. But guess what! You don’t have to be a natural-born leader to be an extremely effective leader. Now, in the latest book by Stephen Blandino, you can move way beyond theory and discover 12 no-nonsense keys to master the art of leading yourself and others. You’ll learn skills like personal growth, time management, decision-making, building influence, leading people, navigating conflict, coaching others, and more. Plus, this book is a fantastic roadmap for developing other leaders. 

the ultimate guide to creating team momentum

Building teams isn’t easy. Building team momentum is even harder. This practical 89-page guide provides the roadmap to BUILD A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE, MISSION FOCUSED, & FULLY ENGAGED CHURCH STAFF. Plus, you’ll get access to 25 customizable tools such as a role description, org chart, dozens of interview questions, onboarding checklist, staff meeting template, goal template, annual reviews, healthy teamwork scorecard, & more.