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#110 — How to Clear Your Calendar in Your Busiest Seasons

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  • Author: Focus on This
  • Full Title: #110 — How to Clear Your Calendar in Your Busiest Seasons
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  • What’s the Key Outcome to Have This Week? Summary: Coming off a week like i had last week, it was really important for me to kind of look at the calendar ahead and say to myself, you know, this is really serving me. Some of those meetings will have been booked months ago. Sometime they’re just recurring meetings. A question you can ask yourself is, what is the key outcome i’m trying to get from that meeting? And why is that so important to have this week? Sometimes you can eliminate a meeting, but you still need that outcome. Transcript: Speaker 3 I mean, again, it’s, it’s, you have wort calendars, you have personal calendars as well. And again, i think just with the introduction of holiday season, you know, automatically the tank goes up, cause it’s, it’s family stuff, it’s, you know, other personal stuff, it’s work stuff. Itso, for short, full of calendars, full calendars for everyone. Speaker 1 Ya. Well, and i think, you know, coming off a week like i had last week. It was really important for me this week, as part of my weekly preview, to kind of look at the calendar ahead and and say to myself, you know, this, this is really serving me, not the other way around. You know, i’m not going to tolet this week, you know, last week run into this week. You know, again, that’s why that weekly preview time is so important for us, to have that time to really reset. We talked about that n recent episode, you know, it’s kind of like a fresh start. And it certainly was for me this week. Speaker 2 One of the best ways, when you’re evaluating your commitments, what’s on your calendar, you’re going to see appointments and meetings. Some of those meetings will have been booked months ago. Sometime they’re just recurring meetings. A question you can ask yourself is, if you are taking some time in a weekly previe for instance, to look ahead at the next week or two weeks, and just go, what is the key outcome i’m trying to get from that meeting? And why is that so important to have this week? Because sometimes you can eliminate a meeting, but you still need that outcome. And what i mean is, if you can identify that question. Oh, all i really need to is what my boss thinks about x process or something. Maybe that’s something you can send ina in a quick novitio voice memo. Emal te, and just eliminate the meeting, cause you identify the key outcome, and what outcome is so important to have this week by that meeting, sometimes you, if you can identify it, then just volley it to the people you’re matingwith. Belik a, do i need to be there you now? I’m kind of overloaded to have these other prioritie, so yea, consider, consider those commidments. Make sure you’re clear on why you’re doing it. And if it’s like courtney said, if it’s serving youy, Speaker 3 i think that’s good (Time 0:12:44)