Changing Your Perspective on Time Management, with Ken Guest

There are 8,736 hours in a year. We all get the same number, yet some people seem to accomplish more without allowing work to consume everything else. Maybe the problem isn’t that we need more time. Maybe we need to change the way we think about the time we already have.

In this episode of Purpose Under Pressure, host Bryan Lefelhoc, founder of Bryan Media Strategies, is joined by Ken Guest, Chief Revenue Officer at Sandler by the Ruby Group, to talk about time management, distractions and why constantly trying to “get caught up” may actually be making things worse.

Managing time well means protecting the hours that aren’t supposed to belong to work in the first place, and optimizing the hours that are. When you’re off, be off. When you make a commitment to your team or to yourself, put it on the calendar and keep it. You may never get everything done, but you can get much better at making sure the right things get done.

Purpose Under Pressure is brought to you in partnership with Sandler by the Ruby Group, serving sales professionals and sales organizations nationwide from their locations in Akron and Columbus, Ohio, in Capital Region, New York, and in Jacksonville, Florida

Key Takeaways:

— Stop trying to get caught up. There will always be something else to do, so focus on what matters most.

— Manage your perspective. You can’t create more hours, but you can decide how intentionally you use them.

— Put tasks on the calendar. Blocking time makes priorities visible and forces better decisions when something new comes up.

— Protect your personal time. Being physically home while mentally at work means you’re never really off.

— Treat email like a task. Check it when you’re prepared to read, respond, schedule the work and move on.

— Turn off the distractions. Notifications constantly pull you from proactive work into reactive mode.

— Keep appointments with yourself. If prospecting, planning or another priority earned a place on your calendar, treat that commitment seriously.

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Helpful Links:

Ken Guest, Sandler by the Ruby Group: https://go.sandler.com/therubygroup/

Bryan Lefelhoc, Owner, Bryan Media Strategies: https://www.bryanmediastrategies.com/