Rebecca Liu Brennan 0:07
Hi guys, beggin Amanda here from no bullshit business tips. And we wanted to talk to you today about something that's been a game changer for both of us. And that is time blocking.
Speaker 1 0:16
Absolutely. Now time blocking, if you have no idea what that means is, you know, going into your calendar and actually setting up specific times of your day to do specific tasks, right? Yeah,
Rebecca Liu Brennan 0:27
exactly. And so I'm so big on this, now that I put time in for family, I put time in for walking, I've retiring for, you know, all the things and I've got five kids, I've got three businesses. And so life is very crazy. And it is the best way for me to go, Okay, I'm going to focus on this one thing at this time, and nothing else. And that's the key, though, right? Absolutely.
Speaker 1 0:52
Because we've all been guilty of, you know, getting to the studio or working from home and opening up our laptop and going. Lots of shit to do. Where do I start? Right? Yeah, we've all been guilty of that. So you know, time blocking really allows you to, you know, do what the most important tasks are. So some of the things I like to put in my time blocking as a studio owner, is definitely things like, you know, time to answer emails, for example, but then that's it, you know, I've got from nine to 915 to do that. And then that's it, then I have time to on marketing, you know, and I think that's the big one is putting the time into the important things. You know, I have, you know, a couple of hours to put into marketing each week, you know, a couple of hours on admin tasks, or, you know, billing or, you know, looking at my finances or whatever it is, but actually putting times for that, and doing just that,
Rebecca Liu Brennan 1:46
yes, doing just that not getting distracted by that email that's just coming from that parent, or that message that is coming or anything like that. And actually focusing wholly on that task is definitely the key. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 1:58
We've all been guilty of that, you know, and we know that when you batch things together, you know, it's so much more efficient, right? It's such a better way to do to use your time rather than jumping from task to task to task. So you know, use that focus mode on your MacBook, it's important, right? You know, don't reply to that email that very second, yes, you've probably got to reply to it. But you don't need to be constantly picking up your phone and checking that Facebook message, checking that email during that actually time block where you need to do all of your tasks throughout the day and throughout the week and have some kind of structure to it on an like a weekly basis. Right.
Rebecca Liu Brennan 2:35
And you know what else I love about this, it helps you to make quick decisions, because sometimes we can procrastinate and procrastinate procrastinate on something, and it takes up way too much time. Whereas if you're like, right, I'm giving myself an hour to do this, and I'm going to have it finished by that hour. If you have to make decisions on that thing you get to make them pretty quickly. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 2:54
It's absolute key, you know, especially things around like choreography, or costumes or stuff like that, that can take a really long amount. So can but if you just let it take, it'll take as long as it takes, right? Whereas if you're like, Hey, I've only got an hour to choreograph today. And I've got to you know, get through all of these classes or whatever that is, you know, you'll make it happen because then you've got to move to marketing, or then you've got to move to doing those accounts or whatever. So what we want you to do is try time blocking it's such an easy thing to do just in your Google Calendar. Yeah.
Rebecca Liu Brennan 3:27
On your phone. Yeah, it's just on your phone. If you go into your calendar and you can colour things different colours, so like you know, I colour my family yellow, I colour my exercise green so you can colour them different colours and have them all in there. And that's a cool thing to see as well as like how much time you're spending on that stuff then how much time you're spending on your business. Like it's good to see all of that
Speaker 1 3:49
too. Absolutely. So if you haven't ever tried to unblocking do it today. It is such a game changer in your life, not just your business life but your personal life as well.
Rebecca Liu Brennan 3:59
Absolutely. We want you guys to take amazing action on this. We'd love to know in the comments what you've done. Let's do this shit.
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