359. Finding Focus and Changing Your Approach to Your Time Management with Sarah Tetlow

Mar 20, 2023

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Today, my guest is Sarah Tetlow. Sarah is the founder and CEO of a company called Firm Focus. What Firm Focus does is it works with attorneys and law firms to improve a variety of things such as their productivity, ridding themselves of the art of procrastination and helping them delegate, she has a complete system for how to manage your email inbox, and a variety of those kinds of productivity enhancements that will allow you to become more efficient and more effective as an attorney and as a business owner. It’s a great conversation with tips and tools that can help everyone!

In this episode, Neil and Sarah discuss:

Sarah’s approach to time, attention, and email management.
Appropriately prioritizing your day.
Reducing procrastination in your life.
Using ARTT to manage your email effectively and efficiently.

Key Takeaways:

Procrastination is a habit, not an identifier. You are procrastinating, you are not a procrastinator.
Block and schedule your time on your calendar for you and hold to it as you would for meetings with other people.
Schedule appointments with yourself to get the tasks done that you need to.
Your inbox should not be your to-do list. You should also be wary of how many flags you are using in your inbox.

"My system doesn't teach Inbox Zero, but it is about Inbox Zen. It teaches the workflow of the mailbox, in taking it out of the mailbox, you're doing something with it, and what to do with the message so it doesn't live in your inbox and you are taking control of it." — Sarah Tetlow

Get in touch with Sarah Tetlow:

Website: https://www.firm-focus.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-tetlow/

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