Time Management that Works for the Brain
You know those people who seem to have figured life out - they’re awesome at their work, but they’re not stressed out all the time? They seem to enjoy life, do things their way, and do it well. This is about being more like those people.
If you are trying to fit it all in to your calendar, you have already lost. It is time for a new approach to managing your time. Your time is limited and what you can do with it is not. While that may sound like it’s at odds with the usual self-help, be optimistic, promise the world approach we hear all the time, it is paradoxically the key to being amazingly effective at what you do. Admitting this to yourself can be quite freeing. It means you can shift from trying to pack it all in, to figuring out a) what is worth doing, and b) how to be awesome - at your creative and productive best - for those things you will take on.
Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and NLP, this course guides you in applying the lessons from the book, Two Awesome Hours, to changing how you work and live.
You will learn to:
Get to the stuff that is important to you - to your success, to your career, to your fulfillment
Enjoy your work more
Be at your creative and productive best when you work on the important stuff
Spend the time working and playing that works for you
Choose what not to get to, and know how to get to the less important stuff without draining yourself
Know yourself/ be more compassionate with your own brain, so you partner with your brain rather than wear it down
Where do these lessons come from:
1. Behavioral science – psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive therapy have a great deal to offer about how we can get in our own way and how we can adaptively course-correct. The lessons help both before we get in our way, as well as after we do. From my experience as a PhD in Psychology, a scientist, and professor, I draw from these lessons. They provide wonderful guidelines and tools for working with the brain rather than against it, so you can be awesome at what you do and and enjoy it more.
2. NLP – NLP excels at providing tools for choosing your mental and emotional state. It is ideal for identifying resources you have within that you can apply in new ways to resolve the challenges at hand. And it provides the structure for learning how others who do things well do them so that you can model their excellence. It thus has a wonderful toolkit for learning how people who have work and life figured out do it.
3. Modeling human behavior – I love to learn and have made it my business to study what’s going on when we have great days and what’s going on when we can’t seem to make anything happen. We all have times when we can be amazingly productive, and love what we’re doing. We all also have times when we can be miserable, slow at work, uncreative, and feeling overwhelmed. It turns out there are conditions that set up these different outcomes. In this course, we focus on what those conditions are.
The course occurs across three (awesome) 2-hour sessions.