#230: Feminine time management strategies that boost your productivity - Tash Corbin, Heart-Centred Business Podcast

Show notes can be found at tashcorbin.com/230 In today's episode, I'm going to be sharing with you feminine time management strategies that boost your productivity. Traditionally, when we think of things productivity and time management strategies, we can associate them with jamming more things in and really hustling. Getting up at 4am, getting stuff done before the kids wake up and the sun wakes up and even while the early birds are still sleeping. Do more! I even used to say when I worked in corporate, "I'll sleep when I'm dead!" Productivity was about jamming in as much as possible. It was about making sure that you extracted every possible inch out of every possible second. Time management strategies were not about how to make things easier or more effective, time management was all about how to make sure you can do 100,000 things in four minutes a day, and jamming as many of those four minute increments in as you could. What I have discovered, and something that I've had to detox myself from, is just how masculine dominated those productivity and time management strategies are, and how much they can really drain my energy and end up being really ineffective for me. Over the course of running my business, I have discovered how to really get the best results from myself. It is by embracing a more feminine energy orientation towards time management, productivity, and getting results in my business. I believe that we are a balance of masculine and feminine energy, and I 100% believe that we want to keep those things in balance. I'm not saying it's all just the feminine energy or it's all just the masculine energy, but for myself, I know that with the corporate background that I have, my experience of my education - being in high school and particularly in university - I have been really focused on those masculine dominated time management strategies. I do need to detox from some of that programming that says that the masculine orientation is the best way to do it because I know for myself that that just isn't the case. My question to you is: What if you could achieve more and have better outcomes, but do it in less time and with less work? One of the big things I want to say before I even jump into my time management strategies with you, is to just notice how you feel when I say a word like 'easy'. How much have we been told that easy equals wrong? That easy is the cheat's way? What about how you feel when I say the word 'lazy'? I am on a mission to fall in love with lazy. What about the word 'fun'? Can growing a business, being productive, getting work done and getting results be fun? They are the three words that I focus on whenever I'm going for a big goal. Easy, lazy, fun. ELF is my little acronym for it. With ELF, I'm able to pay attention to my thoughts and feelings about those words and look for ways where I'm making things hard, where I feel like I need to look like I'm really diligent, and where I'm sucking the joy out of the thing that I'm doing. I've got five tips for you on how to really embrace more feminine time management strategies and boost your productivity. 1. Make your to-do list smaller I don't know how many times I was told this and how many times I brushed it aside because I believed that I was a really productive person so I could have a longer list. I know from experience that having a longer list overwhelms. Having a longer list makes you less productive. Think about it: If you are looking at your to-do list and there are 100 things on it, and you get 6 done for the day, do you feel like you'Let me know your thoughts via our Text FanMail!Join us in Noosa at the Heart-Centred Business Conference in September!Find out more and secure your ticket at: tashcorbin.com/conference