249: Outside-the-Box: Thinking About Time Management with Emily Roach-Griffin

Journaling prompts about what’s most difficult about time management

Why time management should be thought of as “task management”

Why we need to unravel and untether ourselves from much of our traditional thinking about productivity and self-worth

The importance of a toolbox of strategies, realizing that different tools may be effective on different days:

Tools to help with “time blindness” and time awareness, like a timer and to-do list
Tools to help with being on time, like an app
Tools to help with tasks, like breaking large tasks into “baby tasks”
Tools to help prioritize tasks, like containers

How Emily has “game-ified” her household tasks to change her perspective

Why time management is NOT about getting more done in less time

How to use a check-in system with your energy level to determine what is possible

Why avoiding certain tasks might be our attempts to conceal our pain