In this video Margaret shares more detail about the first of D’s of time management – Delete.
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Transcript:
Hi I’m Margaret Briem. I’m probably best known for the coaching and training services I provide and two of my brands Live the Life You Love and Delicious Sexy Business Secrets. We are your best choice for support in navigating the course to intentional success. Dare to dream with Margaret Briem. We will get you there.
In my previous blog post and video I talked about the Four D’s of Time Management. They were Delete, Date-out, Deliver and Delegate. I want to expand a little bit about each topic so today we are going to talk about Delete.
Delete is kind of like the gift of ‘no’. You are telling people, if you volunteered to do something, someone called you and asked you to do something and your heart is not in it or you found it wasn’t a priority, or for whatever reason you don’t want to do it, you need to call the person and let them know. Now the person is going to be upset, because they don’t want to look for another person to do the thing and they feel put on the spot and left in a lurch. The thing is that when you agree to do something and it isn’t something you really want to do, you won’t do a quality job. You are giving them the opportunity for them to look for someone who’s going to do a quality job and therefore, make them look amazing. You want to do that. It is honest to do that and it shows integrity to do that.
Now they are going to be upset. So they might say some unkind things. Please, just let that roll off your back. What you need to know is that the next time someone calls you and wants you to volunteer for something that’s not something you want to do, or they ask you to do something that’s not something you want to do, you need to just say ‘no’. It’s okay to say ‘no’, because it will give them the opportunity to find someone who will do a good job and whose heart will be in it. Just because you are the first person they do call doesn’t me you are the last person they can call. If you can, help brain storm who they can call so that they have a resource to work with.
Other times, when it comes to Delete, we might have projects that we thought were a good idea, celebrations we thought were a good idea, or something we thought was a good idea that we put on our calendar, and then for whatever reason circumstances changed. You don’t want to treat your calendar like it’s a stone. You can go ahead and delete that from your to-do list, from your calendar, just remove it. If there are people already involved you might want to let them know. A lot of times people are so busy they forget about things. So unless it is in their calendar too, if you just delete it, probably, no one would notice. If you think it is in somebody’s calendar, let them know.
Other things you can do to delete things from your calendar is to just simply cross them off. There are so many things in most people’s calendars that they could just cross of and decide not to take responsibility for. I am not telling you to shirk any responsibility that you have. I am not telling you to neglect your kids. I am not telling you to let your house get dirty and let it stay that way, or a million other things that we are responsible for that if we deleted it from our list, it would actually downgrade our quality of life. What I am telling you to do is if it’s not a priority to you and it’s not in alignment with your core values then to go ahead a feel free to delete it off your calendar and not feel guilty about that. Permission granted to not feel guilty.
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I am Margaret Briem telling you to choose to Live the Life You Love. Don’t you deserve it? Until next time, take care.
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