Kris Krohn here with limitless TV and
today we're talking about effective time
management skills because you know what,
there's a lot of people not getting what
they want out of life because frankly
when in school did they ever talk about
how to manage time? Well, you get yours
right now
If you had ten books that you needed to
read, how would you go about reading them?
Think about it for a minute. I got ten
books are you going to read a chapter in
each of the books and every day read
just a few paragraphs or a few pages out
of each of those books? For me, there's
incredible power that comes from focus
and what this is is this is where I
intentionally do the opposite of ADHD.
I think we all know that there's a lot of
over prescripting ADHD and labeling
in our society that basically says,
"squirrel, squirrel, squirrel" it's this
idea that we can get so distracted
because, look at it, I got my cell phone
it's dishing up all of this information
then I'm on on YouTube then I got to
watch this video my friend sent me then
I'm at work then I'm driving in my car.
Life is so different than it's ever been
for most of the history the entire human
race and I'm going to invite you to do the
opposite which is to put your blinders
on, your focus blinders. When I read a
book, I read one book at a time. And, I
feast on it and I learn everything that
I possibly can and I want to dedicate
all of my faculties to it. So in the end,
which of the ten books do I actually
read first? and that comes down to
prioritizing. You want to have effective
time management there's this lie and it
says that we can multitask, or men are
bad at it, or women are good at it. You
know what? Multitasking is lie. There's
no such thing as multitasking. There's no
way that you're actually really putting
100% you're focusing more than one thing
at any given moment. So time management
comes down to this idea of I got to
prioritize what is the most important
thing and usually it's the thing that we
don't want to do or maybe it's the hard
thing, it's the same thing that we
perceive is as more challenging and
difficult and yet that is the thing that
will make all of the difference. So I've
got to prioritize, I got to put on my
focus blinders and then allow myself to
dive in to go as deep as I can on being
completely present with the one thing
that is most important that I'm doing in
that moment. So when it comes to
developing effective time management
skills, I want to share with you what I
consider a lower law and a higher law.
And, the lower law is to become an expert
of time management. We would agree that
an expert of time management is really
good at prioritizing. Our day is filled
with a list of things that we
need to be doing and if you're an
entrepreneur then you know that that
list looks very different than if you're
an employee, but whether you're being
micromanaged by a company or have a lot
of freedom in your company or whether
you're an entrepreneur and you're the
boss, you're the, you're the, you're the
director of the show, either way there
are things that need to get done and you
can tackle into this also social life
and family life and, and, and, personal
things, and fun things, and travel things,
and work things, and you put all that
together and the question is, how do I
manage all that?
Well, it starts by
getting ultra simple with, "what do I need
to do today?" and by need, I need to
separate out my wants. And there are
things that need to happen and then
there are things that that it would be
nice if they did happen. So, one priority
is, what needs to happen? and this is the
part of the filter you need to be very
careful of. A lot of times, people will
take the easy things to cross off the
list, and guess what? They do those things.
And, if you have a capacity to do twenty,
or ten, or five things a day and you're
always tackling the easy things first
then what's the risk?
The risk is that
you'll never get to the hard things, the
necessary things. Because hey, I want to
push off the challenging things that's
what really leads to procrastination. Now
for me, I don't care whether it's hard or
easy. I prioritize according to need
because the sequence of timing in life
bears far greater success for the bears
the fruits of success in our life, then
necessarily what we did. People are
constantly mistaking movement for
achievement. You know what I mean right?
You might even be watching this video
because you're really good at being busy.
You're really good at doing things and
yet, you don't have the results that you
want. Well, all that tells me is is that
you're saying yes to the wrong things
and you're saying no to the right things.
So, we generally do that based on our
personal preference of what we do like
to do, and what we don't. What's hard, and
what's easy. Let go of hard and easy. And
instead, focus on what gets to be done.
You might even choose to develop the
pattern of, I'm always going to do things
from the highest priority to the lowest
priority, and if I'm going to cheat the
system at all, it's to start my day by
doing the hardest things first.
Now, if you give me an individual that is
able every day to be aware of what they
need to do, properly categorize it,
sequence it, so that it starts with the
most important things whether hard or easy,
and go on down. And if you're capable of
sticking to your list and not ending
your day till is done I would call that
the lower law of effective time
management. But there's a higher law. And,
the higher law is this idea that there
are things that you can do that will
collapse time. I'm all, I'm a huge fan of
shortcuts. And, we already made this,
this, this point that busy people aren't
always the most successful people's.
Instead sometimes, some of the busiest
people have these stories of I work so
hard, I do so much. Yeah. And are you where
you want to be? that's a hard pill to
swallow and if you got pride the answer
is going to be yes. And the reality is
man we're trying to get someone who
doesn't want to get there with balance?
So, this higher law has to do with
balance where you don't have to be busy.
You don't have to be overburdened. You
don't have to get caught up in the to-do
list. And, the higher law requires you
instead of going from a place of logic
in determining what you're going to do
it's going to go inside to a place of
intuition. For over a decade now,
intuition has guided and led my business.
Sometimes it's had me do the logical
thing. Often it's had me pursue paths and
go down roads and do things that didn't
make sense. So I'm going to share with
you the most powerful thing that I do
every morning and time management.
Really, my day, Kris Krohn's day, starts at 9:00.
Because at five o'clock I'm at the gym
doing acro yoga, I'm reading some book,
I'm praying, and learning, and I'm helping
get my kids ready for school, get them
off to school, and doing some chores
around the house. I've showered, I've done
all that. Nine o'clock my day starts. nine
o'clock my day doesn't start until I
have dedicated some time up here and in
here to what needs to happen today. And
so, when I do my morning power hour and
when I exercise and when I'm meditating
or listening to good books, I stopped the
moment I receive inspiration on what
needs to happen that day because that's
the mantra of my morning. It begins with
what do I get to do today? and then all
of a sudden my notepad comes out and I
start taking notes on, who do I need to
get an email to? and generally by nine
o'clock I've got a list that isn't on my
schedule I look at my schedule of my
appointments
an effective time management for me I
never fully booked out my schedule I
like to keep it half empty because I'm
leaving room for intuition. An intuition
strikes in the moment. It's a very
present thing. And so before 9 a.m.
starts, I've got a list of 2, 3, 5, 8 things
that need to happen that day that aren't
on my schedule. And when I look back,
guess what actually lead to me down the
road to the success, the happiness, the
balanced life that I want? it was the
things that were dictated by intuition. I
started recording this these series of
videos this morning here at my house
with with Nate. He's so brilliant at what
he does but he came over 8 a.m.
honestly even though I scheduled that
that's a really outside the norm thing
because I'm not even at 9 o'clock and
I've got some things right here that are
itching that I'm super eager and excited
to get to. They only came about from my
Power Hour in AcroYoga this morning. And
I received at some great downloads, some
great information and that's my priority.
Intuition will always trump what's on
the calendar and another one of my rules
is that I get to honor people when I
have an appointment with them. And so,
those are the two biggest things that I
do for my higher law of time management.
now the reason why I call them a
shortcut on time is because, and I talk
about this principle of collapsing time
it's hacking time. How do I hack it? How
do I skip? How do I jump past? Intuition I
believe, we're all, we're all connected to
a greater divine source and we have all
the information we could ever want
readily available if we'll ask for it.
And, that's why the mantra of my morning
is what do I get to do today? That's a
part of God, that's a part of my Higher
Self, and what I'm accessing is far more
ancient wisdom that's available. Napoleon
Hill spoke of opening the windows, the
doorways, of the temples of wisdom that
are available to us. If we just ask.
So those questions, ask in the morning, what
do I get to do today? usually leads to a
list and my days not done till that
entire list is complete.
In hindsight,
doing those things were often what I
attributed some of my greater success to.
And so my invitation is first of all, get
your lower law house in order by
learning how to effectively manage time
by prioritizing and if it's hard and you
know that you're the type of person that
bumps that on the lower priority list,
don't do that.
Bump it up to the higher priority list
because the things that are needful
versus wants those things need to happen
today for you to get where you want to
go. Higher law? step into the world of
intuition. Start with a mantra for your
morning. What do I get to do today? and
become very good at listening. Last
little bonus segment here, how do you
really access intuition? For me, it's a
series of steps. You might want to write
them down because I'm going to give them
to you real quick. Because our time is up.
The first one is I ground. I call my mind
banished the 60,000 daily thoughts and
get ground in a breathing deeply.
Number two is I ask the question the one
I'm suggesting for you is what do I get
to do today?
it's very mindful. Then the third is to
listen, just to wait and to be, and to
listen. And then the fourth is to receive.
Get it. It's there but you've got to
learn to trust it because it's not here,
it's in here. Then number five is to
trust what you got don't second-guess it.
Are you a doubter by nature? Stop that.
Doubt is an unnecessary cancer to your
life's results. Do it is number six. Take
action and these these six steps of
intuition have been with me for years
and there's a book I'll never write of
all the books I've written the book I'll
never write is, really how did I create
all the success and all of my businesses
in my life and all the things I was able
to do is I trusted my intuition.
Because, I believed that it belongs to a greater
source of information I'm constantly
getting downloads and information that
it's not in my awareness of anything I
believe I've ever learned and I get to
run with that information and that is
that higher law of time management. So I
hope you've enjoyed this video and
Friends, that's how you do it. Now here's
the cool part, last tip. You can have your
life changed right now by changing
everything based on what you wrote down
and what connected with you take your
effective management skills not just to
that amazing level one level but bring
it up through the roof and see your life
explode with new production, new results,
and new happiness, and don't forget
tapped into that intuition. Thanks for
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