The Conscious Salon
There are not enough hours in the day
Do long hours at your desk equate to true success? Grapple with this notion as we discuss redefining achievement in our lives.
Get ready to chuckle, nod in agreement, and maybe even have an 'aha' moment as we share personal tales that unravel the culture of busyness and the power of focused attention. We dissect our unconscious habits that devour time, like mindlessly scrolling through social media or feeling compelled to respond immediately to work emails. From the warmth of shared birthdays with loved ones to the wisdom of intentionally carving out time for what truly matters, this episode is your guide to mastering the art of productivity without sacrificing the richness of life's everyday moments.
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This podcast has been produced and edited by Snappystreet Creative
Do long hours at your desk equate to true success? Grapple with this notion as we discuss redefining achievement in our lives.
Get ready to chuckle, nod in agreement, and maybe even have an 'aha' moment as we share personal tales that unravel the culture of busyness and the power of focused attention. We dissect our unconscious habits that devour time, like mindlessly scrolling through social media or feeling compelled to respond immediately to work emails. From the warmth of shared birthdays with loved ones to the wisdom of intentionally carving out time for what truly matters, this episode is your guide to mastering the art of productivity without sacrificing the richness of life's everyday moments.
To follow our journey:
Instagram @aheadhair_
@the_conscious_salon
This podcast has been produced and edited by Snappystreet Creative
Here at the Conscious Salon, we acknowledge the traditional owners of the land in which we stand today, the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Conscious Salon. Welcome back to the Conscious Salon podcast. Good morning to my co-host, tess. Thanks so much. How are you, mate?
Speaker 1:you've got three drinks.
Speaker 2:Three drinks the trifecta the trifecta yeah, they're gonna say double park, this is triple parked absolutely she's got a tequila shot honestly, I was thinking of quadrupling, quadruple. I nearly could have moments ago. What else would you add to that?
Speaker 1:I had a coffee in the car.
Speaker 2:Okay. So she's got a herbal tea, she's got a smoothie, she's got a drink bottle.
Speaker 1:Did have the espresso. Tell me you've got a neurodivergent brain. Nikki loves when I refer to that constantly as well.
Speaker 2:You always know.
Speaker 1:Nikki said to me I don't want to like get diagnosed with anything because I don't want to have that as my brand, just like you know the um, you know the meme that was floating around.
Speaker 2:That was like how do you know if someone's vegan it's like they'll tell you in the first like sentence of their like. Whatever they're saying that is applies to neurodivergent people. How do?
Speaker 1:you know someone's got adhd, they'll tell you in the first sentence.
Speaker 2:But like cool, like we're proud, loud and proud, sweetheart, loud and proud indeed, but we're back with another beautiful episode of the conscious salon podcast test the week that he's hoping he hit the week.
Speaker 1:That was how's your week been, ripper? I went up to um hamilton island, so that was fantastic. Uh, was it, as some of you might recall from an episode recently, maybe probably the week before, depending on the scheduling of these episodes. Uh, recently I went up to hamilton island, got gifted an incredible trip from my beautiful mother-in-law. Thanks again, nazzy loved it. Um, and it was so good it was. Um was a little stressful the morning of uh. Just for those who haven't listened uh, the luggage was all organized as um check-in. Only every single person apart from talia had to pay for more luggage. So that's always absolute, stellar, especially at the airport like staying profit.
Speaker 1:They do such a good look and credit to them. I'm I'm never gonna knock down someone, that's not making a buck, did they walk around with?
Speaker 2:a scale.
Speaker 1:You could not get into the line without weighing your bag, and there were people that were like darting through.
Speaker 2:They didn't weigh us when we went to Bali. They didn't weigh our bags when we went to Bali.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they're smart, they know everyone's like oh, it's Sundays, no one's going to check that. They're licking their lips as you're walking up. One chickie babe behind me got charged $85. I was like, oh, that's a sting. I didn't even think the fly cost that much, yeah, so no, everyone got hit with the. It was quite good. It was quite chaotic from the start. Yeah, so three out of the four for the first day. The only one that got through without being charged was talia. But yeah, mick, his brother and his brother's girlfriend all got charged. I think it was 65 bucks a pop. Um. And then it was quite funny as well, because josh, um, mick's brother, and zoe, his beautiful partner, were running late, so they also parked in their terminal car parking, which is 50 bucks a day. Oh, I was like, oh mate, I'm in terminal parking too and I'm 36. Thanks Value Car Park for giving me the upgrade that I definitely deserved.
Speaker 2:Actually, we've had quite a few surprising upgrades recently. You got upgraded with the parking. I went to a hotel and got upgraded.
Speaker 1:So too Too.
Speaker 2:The strike rate like two out of two ain't bad Mate, let's go for more.
Speaker 1:I say you know I'm ready for it. Universe, throw whatever you'd like at me.
Speaker 1:Good things, obviously throw whatever you'd like within reason, exactly, um, but yeah, no, so that was good fun. Anyway, we got there. In the end it was all happy days, great weekend up amelie beach, just being in the warmth, beautiful time with the family, and the beach is like crystal clear, stunning. I mean, honestly, you want to. You want to see a more beautiful place. Was it warm, mate? I got sunburned, not for very long. Stop it, we're in melbourne. No, it was like I went from like six degrees and like shivering in the cold up to like 20. My sister-in-law was cold.
Speaker 2:She's always I like the fact that Melbourne has four seasons, maybe not in a day, but like four seasons in the year. I like, because I really do believe in the fact that, as human beings, we should go through seasons like as in you know. I mean like in a day, yeah, in a day, but um, like the the fact that when it gets cold, we do retreat and we go insular, and then yeah, you know, I really do.
Speaker 1:I do love that, but it was quite nice to thaw out though out there like we only had two days, but it was bloody beautiful, I know the winters come like thick and fast here but the best part of this was we went to again, nazzy, absolute, like if I've got the dream of mother-in-laws.
Speaker 1:She also organized for us all to go to my niece lacy's birthday her fourth birthday and she organized for all of us to go to the wildlife. I forgot what it's called beetles wildlife farm or something like that bedells, beetles, something like that. Anyway, I effectively started working there. Oh god, all of the animals. So we were dealing with snakes, we're dealing with koalas, kangaroos uh, deer like bambi was walking around there, don't you?
Speaker 2:think that's the best thing about having kids. It's like going and doing all the kid stuff.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't know, because I honestly neglected my children. I was like see you later. Guys, I can't love off giving the opportunity of a lifetime. I got to wrangle the snakes and go and put them on other people and it was truly one of the greatest moments of my life. Like I've got the Britney Spears photos, I was.
Speaker 2:I mean, you did also have like that was like a yellow snake, so it's I'm gonna share that photo.
Speaker 1:I reckon we release this episode because it's a cracker we'll see if tess remembers to do that yeah, very good, you should share it away darl.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we look forward to seeing it was truly one of the highlights of my life. I got to like cuddle a koala, like oh my gosh, it was just so special it was. If you are up in Airlie Beach it's essential to go there. It is so damn good and you learn so much about the animals. But, yeah, honestly, I was like so when would you like me back? And I was having such a fabulous time. So it was a real highlight for me. And seeing the family, great being together, beautiful, going to the wildlife farm unbelievable, like truly a deathbed moment for me. I'll remember that of my deathbed very good. The week it was was absolutely fantastic, very good.
Speaker 2:Well while you're away, I took a day trip myself to um baronia to pick up some, some stock, and that was about as far as far as I got, yeah, you worked.
Speaker 1:You worked on the saturday, that was nice. I worked a saturday first saturday.
Speaker 2:I've done for a while and saturdays are a vibe in our salon yeah, they're so fun, they're like short and sharp. We changed the way that we do saturdays a couple of years ago a year ago I can't remember, but we changed the way that we do saturdays. We now just do nine till two. We come in, we smash it out. We don't take breaks, we just do like five hours hot and fast, and it's really like it was a really fun, quick day. That's great. It's amazing.
Speaker 2:I'm doing one tomorrow actually, so it'll be absolutely beautiful there you go, and we've also got our ahead retreat coming up, so we're running our first ever retreat yeah, with our team. We're going to do an episode with them while we're at the retreat. Um, it's going to be really beautiful. But we're running a team retreat, like a mindset retreat for our girls, which is very exciting, great. Um, tess, we run a little segment around here, what's it called?
Speaker 2:hot girl hotline so for anyone new around here, we put up a questions box on instagram every week. We ask you for your troubles, your woes, your business blues, whatever's keeping you up at night in your business, and then we offer our advice around it. Tess, what is today's listener question?
Speaker 1:today's question is I need help. I've spent six years running my business and I'm constantly running between clients, team and my kids. I have no chance, no time to get anything done. I literally cannot catch a break. I have lots of ideas but can't find the right time to execute them.
Speaker 2:Please help, I'd love your insight wow, I feel like we hear this story again and again, and again and again with not only entrepreneurs in our industry, but also just business owners in general, with like a time story of I don't have enough time and and I feel very qualified to answer this question because I was the queen of the time story- the creator, if you will.
Speaker 2:Yeah for sure, like I always believed that I didn't have enough time, and I also ran the story that I had to tell and show people how busy I was in order for people to see me as quote-unquote successful. So I talk about this often. I talk about unquote successful, so I talk about this often. I talk about this with clients, talk about this really openly with our team as well. But the time thing has come up like so, so, so, so much for me over the last few years and really being conscious of what it actually means to have time, but also what it means to create time. So I truly believe that. I mean, everyone says we have the same 24 hours in a day. It's oprah and like blah, blah, blah. But the reality is the way that we spend our time can either be done really consciously or really unconsciously. So for me, when I feel like I don't have enough time and I feel like, oh my god, I don't have enough time to do all the things there's just so many things to do and not enough hours in the day it's always because I'm being unconscious or living unconsciously. What I mean by that is, you know, procrastinating, paper shuffling, scrolling on social media, watching tv, unconsciously filling my brain with way too many different things, like overstimulating my brain, and that makes me feel like I don't have enough hours in the day. However, like I always talk about this, um, this is something I learned. I'm gonna like plug the person and obviously acknowledge the person who taught me this, a lady named tiana rose.
Speaker 2:She does a lot of mindset coaching stuff on instagram and I did one of her containers and she talks a lot about laser focus.
Speaker 2:I think she calls it diamond focus or something, but you know I've just like adapted it to be laser focus. But, um, she talks about if we spent 20 minutes in diamond focus a hundred percent committing to, you know, writing that process, or, um, writing a blog or editing content, and we spent 20 minutes doing that one thing we can get it done in 20 minutes, as opposed to if we're doing it while the tv is on the background or we're talking to someone, or we're in a noisy environment, or we've got our emails open and they're popping up. It can take two hours to do the same task. So she talks about laser focus or like diamond focus, putting her phone on airplane mode, removing all distractions, removing herself from noisy things, people, everything, and immersing herself fully in that, in that one thing, in order to have that laser focus and get shit done. And honestly, this theory like completely changed my life. Even something just as simple as like. Usually, if I'm working from home and I've got you know, I'm sitting in the office and I've got I'm working on a project, I'll have my like I used to have my emails in the background, so to be like ding, ding, ding, and then I'd stop what I was doing, go over there
Speaker 2:all of a sudden, that task that would take 20 minutes takes two hours, whereas if you commit to okay, I'm gonna allow 20 minute, a 20 minute window at the end of the day to check my emails and respond to anything that I need to, and that's the only time I'm going to look at my emails. I'm going to allow 20 minutes at the start of the day to check social media, and that's the only time I'm going to go on social media for the entire day. This theory literally changed my life, so that's my advice. Around it, what's yours, beautiful, so that's my advice around it.
Speaker 1:What's yours beautiful? Yeah, I think and I've seen you really change that for yourself, nikki as well, with, like how you work and, um, how like much more effective you can be in the short and sharp stints rather than the big, long drawn out ones.
Speaker 1:And because I used to like normalize being like I've been in the office for 12 hours it was like a trophy for me yeah, whereas I'm like I could have done that in four hours do you think, though, that you did that because you needed to like. What was it? That you needed the validation that you were working really hard, or you needed to like kind of prove that you were working really hard, or what do you think that was?
Speaker 2:I think I saw success as like the more that you put, because this is what we saw growing up. It was like you work extremely hard to be successful. So, like our dad, worked um a full-time job and a part-time job. He was a full-time primary teacher and he worked part-time in a gym right up until he was like 64 or something yeah and like they didn't need the money. He just did that because he loved it, and that was his definition of success.
Speaker 1:That was a cycle instructor and he really loved the cycle classes.
Speaker 2:You know playing trance music yeah, but sometimes you do like three or four classes a day on top of working in a school, like we just saw, our parents work exceptionally hard. I've never seen our parents take a sickie. I've never. I don't even know if I've ever seen our parents like legitimately call in sick, like when they were unwell. I don't even know if I've seen our parents very unwell.
Speaker 1:So what we have mom and I had covered together, but what we?
Speaker 2:saw growing up was like our parents working extremely hard, and that has absolutely played a part in writing. What my definition of success was. Yeah, so for me I feel like it was like the more input that you have. Yes, like that, if you do 12 hours, it's a good day and I felt productive. But also I also used to think that every single thing needed action straight away. So it's like if someone emailed me, I need to email them back within 10 minutes and I still catch myself reading an email and being like you know.
Speaker 2:So if I have like a reaction to an email from like I don't know a supplier, or like a lawyer, or like the real estate agent or whoever, I still catch myself like if I have like some sort of emotional reaction, I feel like I have to write back straight away and I'm like no, it's not a good time for me to write back because I'm in an emotional state. So I guess that feeling of feeling the need to get back to everyone instantly and feeling like everything needed to be actioned instantly and definitely feeling like productivity equaled like the amount of hours that you sweated over it.
Speaker 1:It's really interesting, isn't it? And I think even when I think back to our childhood, you know, I always remember Dad looking at the clock and working out. You know how long it was going to be and he needed to be here by that time.
Speaker 2:You need to leave by this time and like there was definitely like stressing over time with yeah to all the things, yeah I mean not now.
Speaker 1:He's gallivanting around you know the globe with mom and having a wonderful time in retirement, which is great, but he's worked fucking hard to get to there like, yeah, like konnichiwa, mom and dad, they're in japan, japan, they're in japan at the moment konnichiwa.
Speaker 1:I think it's konnichiwa, konnichiwa. What konnichiwa? Very good, nice little nod to our japanese listeners. Goodness me. Um, yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? So I am probably surprising no one. I've got 50 tabs open at once and constantly getting distracted and um, not able to. I find actually sticking on task really really hard. Obviously I've got a spicy brain, but I've also always really struggled with actually completing things in its entirety, except for sport. Sport I always was able to. Really, I really had great structure around sport and again really succeeded well at that cannot relate, um, but I think this is one of those things where I've had to really discipline myself to do this and I still find it really hard. I still would not be the poster child for having it all together, um.
Speaker 2:I feel like your office has made a big difference, don't you think?
Speaker 1:It has, but I still have the chaotic energy in there as well. Like I'll put, it depends when I'm like our big working day in the conscious salon is on Wednesdays and when we're doing our, that's when we're with all of our clients and really like back to it's a really like structured day. I find that day it's like high impact, high output.
Speaker 2:It's the biggest work day that we have.
Speaker 1:Yeah but it's the one that I have to really get myself into gear with. So, yes, I have things in there that support me. So things like, um, you know, I've got incense in there, I've got my. My office is very much like a big part of me, like it's got, you know, all the things that make me feel good. I've got crystals in there, I've got plants in there, I've got, like, pictures of people I love. I've got a whiteboard, which really helps me.
Speaker 1:But the biggest game changer for me has been my planner, because without the planner, the planner is kind of my like blueprints of where I'm going to be each day and what I need to get done, because the chances are, if I haven't written it down, I'm going to forget about it or I'm not going to prioritize it and I'll get distracted and do other things. And I think for me, what I have really disciplined myself to do is to plan out my week, write down what I really have to be doing and the things that I really want to achieve in that, and I also color code it and I've spoken about this, you know, time and time and time again, but I'm going to refresh everyone. My life is color coded throughout my planner and every single week I write out all the appointments I have, all of the tasks I want to get done, all of my commitments work-wise, of where I'm going to be going, what I'm going to be doing and any of like fun things that I've got in there. So pink is the fun things that's like if I'm going out for dinner or like catching up with friends or something like that's going to be fun. And light Appointments are orange, so if I've got you know, doctor's appointment, nail appointment, whatever, uh work is green, so anything that's ahead of the conscious salon, uh. And the last one that I'm forgetting is yellow, which is working out, which is when I'm doing my. So that's what um walks and planning out all my workouts as well.
Speaker 1:This helps me because I'm such an unstructured person. Naturally I'm quite, like you know, off the cuff, not really too much directional plan, don't really like having plans, but getting a plan that really changed it for me and had me being way more productive and also conscious of how I was moving and what I was getting done. And I was able to because I chase the tick. I want to tick all those things off that I'm sending out to do, don't like not completing things or putting in a cross when I haven't done it. The biggest game changer for me with this was getting really structured and again I totally echo the putting the flight on the flight mode and really disciplining myself around the time frames I was going to be spending on certain things. So rather than just kind of having an open-ended, I'm going to go and work on this for as long as I can and to see how I go with that. I have really structured time frames on how I'm going to work with it like time blocking, like setting that time and go well like an appointment.
Speaker 1:So when I'm in the salon on the floor making an appointment with yourself, I'm making appointments with myself. That's because my brain can understand that. I know if I've got, you know, full head of foils and then a haircut. I know the times that I need to be started and finished by those things and I can keep to those times. Now, if I just had that open-ended, I would faff about, I would take all the time and some extra time If I don't create those structures around it. And again, it's identifying what works for me. So that really helps me because I know that I already can run to timeframes. I know I'm much better off sticking those timeframes and applying it to majority of my life.
Speaker 1:Now that doesn't sound super inspiring or like spontaneous and fun. It sounds like quite military-like. But structure works really well for me, and especially in terms of being productive and making sure that I get all my shit done. Now I still forget plenty of things. Nikki's constantly reminding me have you done this, have you done this? Or adding things into my to-do list so that I remember and stay on task.
Speaker 1:I haven't mastered it, but I'm much better than where I was. But the biggest thing that I see with people with um, this sort of thing, and when these problems are arising, is that they're not using their time appropriately, they're not using it in a productive way. So people that often say this sort of stuff and I mean this really changed the game for us when we started learning about this was when you go into your phone and you actually look at your screen time and how much of that screen time is spent on social media, because that's generally the biggest one yeah, it's like if you want to find two hours, turn your phone off most people on their phone for like five, six hours a day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so 24 hours. You're going to be working like 10, like if that's being generous. You're going to be doing some family time. So the far, you've still managed to find five hours to look at things on. You know what the? I don't want to give a plug to the kardashians, but whoever on social media is doing and what they're what what's going on the celebrity world or what's going on the news or what's going on with your friends and who's on holiday and what they're doing, blah, blah, blah. Watching reels, learning trends, like all of these things. And yes, that's part of our job. I know that we've got people will be like oh, but I'm only on it for work. Yep, totally understand.
Speaker 1:I also understand that everyone is also finding the pockets, the little pockets of fun and I think, when we don't have structure around those things like there's so many tools that are at our disposal to make our life so much easier to manage this time, blocking your phone, putting locks on so that certain apps won't work. After certain times my phone shuts off it. I think it's 9 or 9, 30. I can't if I go on to instagram.
Speaker 1:It's really annoying because I have to go in and you know, push the ignore limit for 15 minutes, whatever it is, and like the entire day, and so if I do 15 minutes, my call, I'll give myself 15 more minutes. It will then shut off again. I've got to go through that same process. It just puts it in so that there's like a little thing to kind of limit how much I'm using or try and reduce that time. But what I find time and time again when people complain about not having time, is that they are just they're not prioritizing their time effectively and they are distracting themselves and wasting time with bullshit. So things like social media, binge watching shows, um, just sort of doom scrolling, not really intentional living or consciousness, and that's totally fine if you need to do that to just de-stress your mind for it, but it has to be at a period and sometimes these people will be the people who are the first people to watch a story on instagram, you know.
Speaker 2:So they're like the same people that will be complaining about I don't have enough time in my day. And you're like oh well, I know that you're on social media, although we can see it yeah, and I think this is the thing I remember.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you remember this, nikki we went to a yoga retreat over in bali and there was a woman there who was really emotional about being here. It's one of the first things she ever done for herself and, um, you know, it was such a big thing that she was here and her work so stressful and like she's working 80. She kept saying, like I work over 80 hours a week, like it's just, I just I'm so proud of myself for being here. And I was like fuck, that's amazing. Like jesus, what is this woman?
Speaker 1:like a brain surgeon or like a no, we thought she was like a ceo of a bank or something I thought she was a surgeon the way that she was talking, because I was like god she's really a consultant or something no, she, she made um sticker books, sticker scrapbooker, scrapbooker, and I remember and again to the thermomix 100 not at all, but the way that this woman was carrying on about how little time she had.
Speaker 1:She was addicted and putting out I was like how urgent is the scrapbooking like industry that we need to be working 80 hours a week? What are you talking about? I don't remember being like what, yeah, what, what do we? What, what, what, yeah. And I think with that, when you are having you really believe that story on yourself, you will not be using your time effectively and all I could think was dal like thank god you're here first of all and you're gonna have like at least you know four or five first of all and you're going to have like at least you know four or five days of like not doing the scrapbooking Away from the clags.
Speaker 1:I mean, it was just one of those things where I just thought I genuinely was thinking that this woman was like you know, and again, no shade, scrapbooking's your thing, like get it, I'm all for that. Like, absolutely Like clang away. But it was just I remember thinking with the way this woman was talking, the importance that she was putting on herself and how like, and again, it's not about the scrapbooking thing, it's about how much she was not prioritizing her time, because I was like, hang on, there's no way that that, like, any job needs 80 hours, apart from like people that are in emergency services and like, oh, if you're like a lawyer, if you're like some sort of like hectic job, that yeah absolutely, but it does scrapbooking need 80 hours a week?
Speaker 2:probably not, probably not, but I'm but here's the thing, though, that lady. I really want to be clear.
Speaker 1:I'm not shading scrapbooking. I don't want to like, I don't have the scrapbookers. No, we're not trading scrapbooking. We're totally throwing me in a peter way. I don't want to. You're trying to throw me in a Peter way. I don't want to have one.
Speaker 2:We're totally saying that scrapbooking is great, but the addiction to the busyness and the addiction to telling people how busy you are because it makes you feel important, yes, and for a second there we were like, wow, this person must have a really hectic job, so. But for me, I just see, like all I can look at is like I have to show that person compassion. She's so addicted to. Like the busyness. Yeah, idea of being busy. And yeah, totally, this is something that we hear constantly in terms of like within our community. Yeah, um, with our clients, it's something that we have to like teach our clients out of, basically, of this idea of being so busy and I don't have enough time.
Speaker 2:And I'd also say to this person who wrote the question in with that um idea of being so busy and I don't have enough time, and I'd also say to this person who wrote the question in with that um idea of like I'm running between this and this and this, how can you look at automating your business, your life and your um commitments in a better way? Because if you're running between your team and your business and your clients and whoever else, what things could you do to put it, what things could you do to put it? What processes could you do to put in place so that it takes the pressure off? Yes, because, just like the scrapbooking queen, this person who's asking this question may be not addicted, but almost like they might be on the hamster wheel of over committing but also feeling the need to be the one that does everything totally, and that and I say that with so much love and compassion as someone who really was that person.
Speaker 2:But where in your life can you share with your team, you know, share the load with your team, delegate to your team and let them actually have the opportunity to do things that they would love the opportunity to do? How can you automate your processes better and put in, you know, digital procedures and things like that, where you can take the load off all the things that you're?
Speaker 2:doing because if you went into business to have the freedom to, to create and to do, and to have more freedom and flexibility, you're literally living a life where you would be better off being employed. Yep, because at least you could like lock the door at the end of the day and not have to worry about it.
Speaker 2:Whereas this person feels so stretched. So I would really look at you know, getting a mentor or getting someone who can help you systemize all of your business and your processes so that anyone can pick them up and do them. It doesn't have to be you doing them and also putting in really strict boundaries with yourself more than anyone else?
Speaker 1:so this person needs to put boundaries in around how they'll spend their time yeah, and I think you know, when you do start putting the time limits and the time frames and the um, the like, boundaries around things, you first of all, god, you find so much more time than what you've ever dreamed of, and just how you feel and how you show up, it's just such a more like conscious way, like I just feel so much more energized, so much more productive each day and just like I'm moving with purpose and intention. I'm losing the chaos. I haven't mastered it, as I've said, but I'm definitely 10 times better than where I was and I think, just losing that like that hustle and that chase mentality of like, oh, I've got to do this and I've got to be there and oh, don't have enough time, don't have enough time. Sometimes I still have moments being like, oh shit, I'm like I haven't managed myself well, um, but I think that's the difference.
Speaker 1:Now I don't necessarily think I don't have enough time, I've got too much. Sometimes I just think, oh, I haven't managed this perfectly. I even had that instance the other day I can't remember when it was and I hadn't managed my time or thought things through, and I called you and I think I'd um stuffed up. I made a nail appointment and had the dog in the car and hadn't prioritized that, and I remember calling you being like, oh, I've really stuffed this up, that's such a minor thing, but realizing that I hadn't, that's not like me to not plan that out anymore. So I think those moments of like that chaos and that um, almost unplanned yeah, that stress, it just reduces that as well, which is really great, absolutely. I think with this as well, when you actually get more conscious with time, you can actually spend some more time nurturing yourself and prioritising yourself. So many people run with the story of I don't have time for me and I just give to everyone else, but I think that so often we just spend so much time working and then distracting ourselves yes whereas when we have more conscious time, unconscious time, yeah
Speaker 1:you can really think of. Like I um, I had a beautiful self-care night on monday night. I was able to plan out my week, do a workout, uh, I journaled and I also read and I went to bed at a normal time. I wasn't up super late and it was just a couple of hours of just being really intentional with how I was going to move and I wasn't like, right, great, I've finished yoga, I'm gonna run off to this and that.
Speaker 1:And I also want to preface this by saying when I work out, my, I work out at home, I don't work out, I don't have to travel to a gym or anything like that. But it was really intentional time and it was really mindful and I felt really nurtured and like cut full by the end of it. And I think this happens so often where people don't prioritize that time or don't make that time or use that time to doom, scroll or distract themselves with, like you know, a rubbish tv show or whatever it is. That's fine to do as well, like no shade on that either, but in terms of it just makes that story of not having the time not actually real yeah, absolutely well, I think that's some great advice for that person.
Speaker 2:Tess, we end every episode in gratitude. What are you grateful for?
Speaker 1:I'm really grateful for, uh, my planner. I'm so grateful for my planner. It really is the emotional support friend. It really helps me get everything done that I want to. I've found something that really helps me spread like really be effective with my time and how I'm showing up each day. So I'm so freaking grateful for learning how to use that and create it so that it was effective for me beautiful what about you? What are you grateful for?
Speaker 2:I'm grateful to have done the work, the self-development work, to get out of the story of being in that like need to do huge, high impact, huge, high output. Um, so I'm very much about high impact, low output now and getting things done. I'm actually really grateful to that process that I learned about the diamond focus the laser focus. Whatever it was, but it was, it changed my life completely changed my life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it really did now I don't have that story that I run of, I don't have enough time and I don't have the story of um. You need to be so busy to be successful gorgeous beautiful episode.
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