Monday Momentum #10

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Monday Momentum #10

Welcome back to Monday Momentum here on Digital Brew. My name is Brian Colburn, and today we've got a few announcements to make and then we're going to move on to some content to help you keep that momentum growing.

First and foremost, Monday Momentum. This will be the last Monday Momentum of the year. We will pick back up on the sixth.

In addition to that platform, news at the end of Thursday's publication will be going dark after this week until the 9th of January, 2025.

So both will be returning the week of the sixth, which will be awesome. I'm already looking forward to that.

However, I'm scheduling some content out so I can take a couple weeks off and Monday Momentum again, will be going dark until next year

Over on LinkedIn. First and foremost, there's a link down below. If you're not connected with me on LinkedIn, I'd love to connect with you there on that platform. It is my platform of choice. I spend more time there than all of other social media platforms combined, and I published an article.

"Do You Need a Coach Knowing when it's time to Seek guidance?"

It is not a sales pitch. It's an honest opinion of mine, of struggles people face and how a coach can help overcome them. So you might relate to that and explore getting a coach, whether it's me or another coach, or a coach for an issue, a set of circumstances I do not coach for.

But that is over on LinkedIn.

I had a lot of fun working on that article and I published it as a LinkedIn article that you can find on my profile.

The link to the article will be below number one. When you click it, hit me up. Let's connect on LinkedIn. That will be awesome.

And lastly, leveraging time blocking.

I have been time blocking for about a year now, and I'm an old school planner. I started off day planning in a Franklin Covey paper planner back in the day. I moved to the Palm Pilot when the Palm Pilot was new to schedule my day, organize my tasks, et cetera, et cetera.

I decided I wanted to go digital only, but had a hard time.

I still relied on my paper planner when I was transitioning to the Palm Pilot. And the Palm Pilot was cool when I was away from my desk or didn't have my paper planner with me.

And I struggled and I went back and forth. Okay. I'm all digital and I would get rid of my paper planner and try to do digital and things would slip through the cracks and I would go back to paper and I struggled with that for 10 years of where? Where do I land, paper, or digital?

I put in a hard push about two years ago to be digital only with smartphones nowadays. Access to my calendar in the palm of my hand no matter where I am, [00:03:00] I can time block easily. I can make notes. I can schedule tasks to do, and I want to say I have been more productive this last year. Using time blocking techniques instead of keeping a to-do list.

Now, one caveat, my inbox is my to-do list and I also subscribe to inbox zero, meaning at the end of the day, my inbox should be nothing on a good day. On a day. There might be emails in there that I need to address, but I've decided to deal with them in the future the next day, but they stay in my inbox until it is complete.

Right now, as it stands, my b Coburn inbox zero emails and it's Monday morning my Sitch Radio. Inbox. I have one email in there, and it's a proposal I'm working on later this week.

So that email is gonna stay there until that proposal is sent. So my inbox is a quasi to-do list

Number two, when I decide, okay, I need to do this task. I calendar time to do that task. So it's named similarly to what the task is in conjunction with that email if an email is attached to it.

Those techniques have been working wonderfully for me for a couple of reasons.

I use Calendly so people can book time with me.

If I block off one to one 30 to handle a task, nobody can book that time or take that time from me. Therefore, I'm really cautious about filling my calendar with to-dos because then I can't schedule with new clients, number one. Number two. If it's gonna take me 30 minutes, I'm gonna schedule a 30-minute window and not say, oh, I just need an hour to do this, and then it takes 20 minutes, and then I've got 40 minutes of what do I work on next?

So I'm really cautious about how much time I block on my calendar and my calendar just seems always packed, every day. Seems, like it's out of control. However, a lot of those time slots are taken by tasks that I'm gonna do in solitude, sitting at my computer, handling something that needs to be done.

I would encourage you to check out inbox zero and time blocking, if you struggle. If you've ever said, oh, I forgot about that meeting. Oh, I forgot I was supposed to do that. Let's have a conversation. Maybe I'll do a long in-depth post on time blocking or inbox zero and we can. ,try it out together again. I've been working on it for over a year.

It's working wonderfully. I encourage you to check it out.

That is Monday Momentum for today, the 16th of December. Everybody have a happy holiday season.

This Monday. Momentum will come back on the 6th of January 2025.

Happy New Year, everybody.

Links

Do You Need a Coach? Knowing When It’s Time to Seek Guidance

Brian Colburn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briancolburn/