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Dealing With The Unexpected At Work

Extreme Productivity with Kevin Kruse

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Introduction

The hosts express gratitude and discuss the importance of extreme productivity, then address a listener's question about dealing with unexpected events at work, offering advice on living and working from a calendar.

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Welcome, welcome everyone.
Speaker 1
Thank you for joining me. Thank you for giving me the gift of your time. I know time is worth more than money. You know time is worth more than money. So it means a lot that you're investing 10 or 15 minutes here today to learn how to achieve extreme productivity while also overcoming that feeling of being overworked and overwhelmed. Now I'm Kevin Cruz and in the last episode, I shared three simple ways to get more energy. And today, I'm going into the reader email to answer a question. I'll be answering the question about how to deal with the unexpected that happens at work. But first, I want to share this podcast review from Mel Davis 1231 on iTunes. Mel wrote, I listened to podcasts all the time. The way Kevin explains time management really resonated with me. Something just clicked, creating a to-do list on a calendar with a time and duration is working. I implemented this technique immediately. Also the 3210 email system. I'm getting more done in one day than I have in weeks. Thank you, Kevin. I can't wait to hear your next episode. So thanks, Mel, for leaving that iTunes review. If you like any of these episodes, it would mean the world to me. If you would take one minute to go to iTunes and leave a review for the extreme productivity podcast, because that's the way other people will find the more reviews we get, the more iTunes will recommend the show to others. And before I answer this reader's question, if you have any questions about time management or productivity or something you've heard me talk about in this show, just send me an email, Kevin, at KevinCruise.com. And I'll be sure to get back to you. And if I use your question as part of an episode, I'll send you something fun, maybe a master your minutes t-shirt or autographed book or whatever other cool thing I've got laying around. So here's the question. It comes from someone named Ben. Ben writes, Dear Kevin, I have begun listening to your podcast recently and I particularly liked your episode about not using to-do lists instead, scheduling your day in 15 minute chunks. I do have a question that has emerged from my first day of attempting to schedule myself. Picture the scene. And let me add, this is Kevin, that Ben is one heck of a writer. I love this email. So here he goes. Picture the scene. I'm there on the train at 6 a.m. this morning, heading into work. I spend the hour train rides scheduling the entire week into 15 minute chunks. Side note, this made it clear to me how much free time I have to go and focus on growing the business and not working in it. However, disaster strikes in the office when a series of events transpired to remove me from my office and send me on a wild goose chase around the city of London. This blows my carefully scheduled day out of the water. I wanna ask about your thoughts on scheduling carefully, yet still allowing for flexibility within the schedule. Especially given I work in an industry where clients will often request meetings at the drop of a hat and I'm expected to oblige. These guys pay the bills, and so it's not really advisable to keep them waiting for the next scheduled opening. Is it about accepting that these guys form part of my most important task and risk the loss of focus on bigger, wider goals? Or is it just the case that you'll need to be flexible? Thanks again and please keep up the amazing work. Ben. Okay, dare Ben. Here's what I think about that awesome question. Congratulations on your commitment to giving up the to-do list and working and living entirely from your calendar. It's gonna take some getting used to, but I do think this is one of those core practices that will put you in the top 1% of productivity. And I get some version of your question very often. You know, what do we do in our well-planned minute by minute day is thrown into turmoil because of unexpected fires to put out or meetings that run long, family emergencies and so on. And let me share that, you know, this is a problem that happens to me as well. In the last week alone, I went to pick up my son early from school because he was sick.

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