noon i don't know where you are um and where i am it's still a little confusing because it's exactly
noon so i don't ever really know what to say at that point happy lunch happy lunch to you so
i you guys i brought my friend megan here and we're about to talk serious time management okay i
gave you guys a heads up that this is what we are going to talk about today it's going to be a quick
10 to 15 minute sort of like reboot of how to be able to um get our time back now that the kids
are out of school how do we keep functioning and megan without any further ado also she may have
something that's amazing and it's free and it's a freaking boot camp so i'm just saying so that's
megan has a system like a proprietary system tell us about tell us about what you're doing megan
yeah so um bottom line is uh about 10 years ago i was in a stage of life juggling full-time career
a young toddler and it was just in that season which i think so many of us in where we keep
telling ourselves hey you know what i just got to get out of this stage like it'll just be so
much better in the next stage and then guess what there's another stage right behind it
it's just as hard and i had this really pivotal pivotal moment one day where this woman at the
park because i was pushing my dog on the swing said it's just chatting what do you do for fun
and i didn't have an answer like i literally couldn't come up with anything and it rocked me to
my core because i didn't even know i didn't know how to have fun anymore and i went home that night
and i remember just weeping and first it was almost at the like how did i get here
and then and then the guilt sets in right and then i started thinking on the outside looking in it
looks like i had everything i ever wanted but the bottom line is i've got like low-grade depression
that seems to be growing because i can't remember the last time i took a hot minute
for me or did anything for fun every day was this race against the task list right and it's
only a good day if it all gets checked off and i knew this was not sustainable and the irony of
it is my entire 20-plus corporate year career was in how to develop systems and processes
to build things better faster cheaper so i'm like megan you have 20 plus years knowledge in this how
about you turn it on yourself in your calendar and say how do we go about finding a better way
for women to plan manage and juggle their time that's realistic and gives us some room to breathe
yeah oh my gosh so how did how did you come up upon this solution this like
system that you've developed it just probably a lot of trying failing trying failing and then just
finally figured it out yeah and it was a trial and error i threw everything away so i'd been using
the same planner for over 20 years i have been through all of the proprietary time management
expert programs over the course of my career and i just said what if none of that existed and i throw
all of it out and i applied um for any like software or tech geeks out there i applied a lot
of the principles that you find from the toyota manufacturing company all around lean planning and
said how can i bring this into day-to-day living so that was really the inspiration behind it
um so i really took a lot of the principles and then it was like you said trial and error of okay
and knowing i wanted to build a system that could be broken apart and taught to others not just for
myself and so i'd say i went all in for about 18 months working with myself and others and then
really got to a point where i was seeing consistent results for all the women going
through the program and that's when i knew okay this is translating and this is working right
that's i hope that everybody really hurt her whenever she said so it can be broken apart
and taught to other people a system isn't a system truly unless everybody can do it it's not really a
system unless it's truly duplicatable to its core and so i think that i mean i'm going to be joining
this boot camp too because first of all we can always be better we can always learn from other
people and the reason that i'm not like coming on and talking about time management like from
my own like for me talking about time management is because guys we need to be able to exist in
our own lanes right like i teach on other things i'm going to bring in friends to teach on this
stuff because i'm not going to teach my limited knowledge of what worked for me but maybe isn't a
system right instead i'm going to bring a friend of mine in and i'm going to say hey guys here's
the expert at this right and so this is what megan is doing and can you just please kind of reiterate
um what their like what the boot camp entails like what are we going to be able to get into and it's
like when you guys jump into it the link is in the description of the video when you click on it
you'll be able to jump in two days so there's two options yeah choose the one that's right now and
just start today so you can get like get things rolling for yourself but yeah tell us about it
i think because my background uh in corporate was so much training and development um i always
hesitate whenever i invest my time in a program right i'm like is this just gonna be 30 minutes
of them telling their story and are we going to fluff and are we going to frame the problem but
i'm not and at the end of it i'm like i already knew what the heck do i do about it it's like
when you go get a recipe right when you go to get a recipe online and you're like
oh good to know that you learned about this in montana on your vacation when you were five right
give me the recipe yeah no i i swing the pendulum a little on the other side sometimes i'll be
teaching for 10 minutes i'm like oh yeah sorry my name's megan so anyway let's get back to it so the
way the boot camp is structured again back to this idea of the systems when it comes to managing your
time the way i like to think of my entire top framework and top stands for time management
organization and productivity think of it almost like like a machine assembly line right the
machine is the same i'm going to teach you all the components of the machine why this works for you
is because you bring your unique inputs into the machine meaning what's the realities of your life
right now what constraints do you have on your schedule what's your family life what's your work
like what goals do you have what are your core values all of that's uniquely yours you're going
to put it in the machine and what's going to come out the back end is a weekly plan that is uniquely
yours oh my god you're not i'm not going to sit here and say you need to time block and every
wednesday from 10 to 12 like heck no we're not that doesn't work what's so powerful with this
is then as your life changes like this is my first week of summer break i'm a mom so it's very
different right the machine that i'm using the process to create my weekly plan is the exact same
this week as it was last week but my inputs are completely different because i'm in summer mode
as opposed to school time mode so the boot camp is going to introduce you to the whole framework
you're going to take an assessment so you see here like already identify out of nine core components
where's your biggest room for growth and then we dive in and you're actually going to learn
specific skills that you're gonna put in place after each one of the five core videos
so that you're actually in motion who is freaking out right now first of all i love
a custom something or other you know what i'm saying like i love being able to put in my inputs
and then have things spit out to me where it's it's only about my stuff and what i've got going
on instead of like this general overarching thing i really love that concept that is so stinking
cool lori said exactly your simplistic side i know for me okay where's the fluff is it practical is
it realistic i don't have time to waste as i am wasting time working through this she said
no it's the thing i'm like as a time management expert the last thing i want to do
is feel like i've wasted somebody's time and amanda i see you're saying i've tried
time blocking and it doesn't work for me i hear you because most time blocking is taught with a
corporate mentality and by men and i don't know about you but i don't know the last time i could
block off a three-hour chunk of anything that's not realistic in my life so instead we're going
to be or you're going to be learning in this boot camp two different ways to approach time blocking
that are uniquely yours and we even touch on if you struggle with add what that looks like for
you because there are strategies that you can use they're gonna be different for someone that
doesn't um have those similar struggles oh that is so good and that even goes into personality
style right like in uh people that are just like i want it done yesterday um because i time blocked
but i time block in 15 minute increments and then i shut everything off and because i can't
sit down for longer than 15 minutes it's just i can't there's that and i think there's two
like fundamental things that have happened in our world in the last like 20 years that to me are why
a lot of these traditional time management systems just don't work well particularly for women
first is technology so 20 years ago we were not walking around with computers in our
pockets right i can remember i'm old so like my first job i was issued like a physical pager
and if the software system went down it went off and then i had to go find a pay phone
to call in because i mean we didn't have cell phones and all that right
yeah so when you were working you when you were working when you're at home you're at home well
now we walk around with computers talking to us 24 7. so there are some very specific skills that i
teach you on controls and things you should put in place on your phone to minimize the distractions
and i'll have an entire training on setting up your phone for um organization and productivity
and then second with that yeah it's been really helpful um ladies in particular we find ourselves
again i love technology i am one at heart and technology allows me to work from home and run
a business while raising a family and all of that and it's great but what we're seeing is as women
we just keep adding more and more and more to our plate and nothing's coming off so if our time
management system doesn't give us a realistic view in understanding what all we're juggling
and then give you specific training on how to prioritize it so that we can learn how to
delegate how to move stuff off how to be realistic with our time all we're doing is just trying to
figure out how to get 40 hours into a 24-hour day and that's not the solution
man because now we move into hustle now we move into squeeze the life out of everything um
man i love this i love this um everybody else is loving you so you guys are gonna see megan around
because i adore megan is pretty much how this goes um but make sure that you jump into the boot
camp i'm getting in there with you guys we're we're all just gonna do it at our own pace but
let's talk about it as we're doing it because um well to get in it just click on the link in
the description of this video to get into megan's boot camp but um this is so incredibly important
not just because summer is upon us but because we need to start developing these behaviors sooner
than later and what better time than right now to start doing this stuff because once you start once
you get time management right the rest is allowed at that point to fall into place a lot of times
business paralysis happens simply because you don't have great time management and it's not your
fault we're not really taught good time management you know oh my god i'm so glad you brought that up
because people believe so many that you're either born with a you know type a expert in this or
you're not and if you don't have it you don't have it i was not born with that gene i had my mom on
my podcast once to like prove to everybody i was a hot mess like procrastinator to the extremist
borderline like hoarder um but then i invested in my career in gobs of training around this and so
if you're currently someone who's listening and you're like beating yourself up you're like god
i just feel like other people i don't know guess what they don't teach it in high school they don't
teach in college and most companies don't teach it either so give yourself some grace and say
hey it's all right that i didn't know how to do this i haven't been taught the good news is it is
a teachable skill so this is a great opportunity to say hey i'm going to own that and i'm going to
do something about it there it is there it is guys i we're going to be over and out because
it's a video on time management we're not going to waste your time right so um megan thank you
so much for coming on with me you guys jump in the boot camp we need this as women as business owners
as people that are creating income from home as people that are teaching our kids a different way
we need to be able to do this guys so i love you guys and we'll see you next time bye