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Growth Spurt: Get Organized with Time Boxing · The Growth Project

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  Hello everyone! Welcome to another episode of The Growth Project, specifically a growth spurt. I'm Anthony Libra and today we're going to be talking about how to plug and play something into your routine that takes five minutes, but can really get your mind and energy right to start your day. And especially when we have these busy days that have a ton of competing tasks and a ton of competing priorities, this specific routine can help you organize and help you approach the day and dedicate your time, energy, and attention toward the priorities needed to be successful.
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  And the specific routine we're going to be talking about today is called Time Boxing. So really, it's pretty simple. And how it works, what you're going to do is you're going to take a piece of paper, you're gonna take a word document, and you're going to write down everything on your mind ideas, tasks, meetings, reminders, everything that's on your mind.
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  Get it on paper, get it on a word document. Now, what you're going to do from here is you're going to identify and prioritize your top three tasks for the day. So you have this list in front of you, either on paper or digitally. Take some time to make those top three priority. Stick out. You can do this by either underlining them.
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  You can do this by, bolding them if need be. You can do underline, highlight, whatever it's going to take to have those top three priorities stick out and be front of mind from there. This time, boxing what it looks like is you plan your day hour by hour. So from 7 to 8 a.m. I'm going to be doing X from 8 to 9.
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  And I'm going to be in a meeting from 9 to 10 a.m.. I have some time for you to work on some of those priorities. And really what this does is it allows you to see where priority work can be done, where meetings are going to take place, where you can dedicate time to appropriate projects, things of that nature.
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  And it allows you to find the gaps, to really dedicate some quality work towards those top three priorities you identified at the outset of your day are. The reason this is valuable is it allows you to see where your time goes. It allows you to conduct a sort of calendar audit to see, okay, I know what my priorities are, but it's my time, energy and attention actually going to these priorities.
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  If not, probably worth looking at some changes being made. It also makes it easier to intentionally dedicate time to those priorities, especially if you have those gaps, maybe from 1030 to 11. Maybe it's a 45 minute gap, wherever it may be. You can find those times to block off your calendar, so to speak, and be, hey, I'm focusing on what I need to focus on to be successful.
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  And this also helps to improve some transitions, especially when we're in the thick of it. When we're tasked a task meeting to meeting day to day, it's almost impossible for our minds to catch up. So when we take the time for five minutes in the morning to go from 7 to 8, I know I'm here that way at my 8:00, I know that I have to mentally prepared for this meeting.
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  I know I have to be mentally prepared for this upcoming presentation where I need to perform well. This helps reduce some of the overwhelm. It helps reduce some of the go go go mentality that we often find ourselves with, or when we have a to do list that spans 3 or 4 sticky notes. It allows us to really prioritize.
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  Where do I want to start? Where do I want to put this time, energy, and attention to say, hey, now I could put my name on the day and say, today was a successful day. Today was a productive day. It also helps to buffer this idea that not everything can be done in a single day. You have three priorities in front of you.
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  What groundwork? What progress can you make on those three priorities to ensure your time, energy, and attention is going to the right place. So is a quick, practical routine that helps structure your mind, helps to organize your thoughts, and also make sure, hey, I know when I finish this day, when I get to 5 or 6 p.m., whatever that day ends, I put my time where I need to.
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  Until next time, thank you.