062: Practicing Aligned Time Management & Unleashing Your Great Work with Dr. Amanda Crowell
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062: Practicing Aligned Time Management & Unleashing Your Great Work with Dr. Amanda Crowell
Take a look at your to-do list. How much time do you have set aside for the things you want to do? And how much of the tasks on that list don’t actually need to get done?
As an entrepreneur, there’s so much pressure to be productive, hussle all the time, and crank out as much work as possible. True happiness, however, comes from making time for the things you genuinely enjoy and learning to let go of the rest.
In this episode, I’m chatting with Dr. Amanda Crowell, cognitive psychologist and business coach behind the Aligned Time method, a system for managing your time well and making your dreams a priority in your life and schedule.
What you’ll find in this episode:
Why doing more isn’t always best
Knowing the difference between what you do and don’t have to do
Allowing yourself to do certain things “less well”
Making space and time for what you really want to do
The three parts of Amanda’s Aligned Time Method
How to let your identity evolve without losing yourself
About Amanda
Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist and business coach who helps accidental entrepreneurs get more clients and have a bigger impact. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost a million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.
Links from the Episode
Learn more about Dr. Amanda Crowell
Order the Aligned Time Journal
Listen to the Unleashing Your Great Work podcast with Dr. Amanda Crowell
Quotes:
[07:19] “It was not until I finally turned around and looked at the question, Do I actually have to do all of this?, that I was able to truly move the needle, shift everything out of the margins, and put things in the right places. Things that only need a little bit of time only got a little bit of time. Things that I wanted to really invest time in and enjoy and savor had the time to do that.” - Amanda
[08:38] “You don’t just need to like, reorganize your life a little bit to bring something on board that matters to you a lot. You have to substantively, foundationally shift the way you're viewing your life and your time.” - Amanda
[08:58] “What can I do less well?” - Amanda
[13:00] “You get to choose whether or not you're going to meet the expectation to do your best work for other people all the time. But that's not a freedom that we feel naturally in this culture, in our society, at least in the United States. And that's one thing that has us locked away in a prison of expectations.” - Amanda
[19:30] “You’ve got to hold yourself pretty loosely. There are some things that are true about you, and you should know those things. The rest of it, you need to be willing to try different ways. Experiment. Try taking on a little piece of another piece of identity. See if you can live with it. If it's not so much in tension with who you think you are, but find out by doing.” - Amanda
[23:35] “Get in the flow, and change the flow from inside the river.” - Amanda