Manage Your Time Better to Be More Productive: Writers and Speakers Edition

Samantha Lane talks about how a near-death experience showed her that you don’t need to overwork to find your value. Her realization that she shares with others is not to wait to live the life you want. She talks about three pillars: (1) prioritization, (2) plan, and (3) protecting. She encourages people to plan their upcoming week on Fridays.

Samantha shares the quote that changed her life: “How we are spending each day is how we are spending our lives”

She encourages you to ask yourself: “Does my calendar line up with what I feel is important?”

How to protect your plans

• Default to saying no or not now
• Proactively set yourself up for success

She encourages to see time, less as a concept and more as a measurement. For nonfiction writers, Samantha talks about telling your story for others to see themselves in your story and that it’s not actually about you, it’s about the person experiencing your story. Time management is energy management. 

Energy management tips:

• Identify peak performance time
• Go to sleep at the same time
• Increase efficiency and effectiveness
• Batch your time (you wouldn’t clean one sock at a time)
• Minimize task switching
• Create powerful structure
• Don’t hack at the branches when you need to be addressing the roots

Link to her newsletter sign-up/free weekly planning sheet here.

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