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How to get the most out of your time

We all get 24 hours

Almost everyone wants to find a way to get more out of their time.

We all know that there are only 24 hours in a day but figuring out how to use them is way harder than it seems. Finding the way to incredible productivity that feels fulfilling (and not draining) is a challenging task but it is one that it totally worth it.

This attempt at a motivational quote can often leave us feeling like we’re doing something wrong. How is it that there are some people that just seem to be able to do a crazy amount of stuff in so little time. *cough* Beyonce *cough cough* Elon Musk…

It’s not that they have more time necessarily, it’s that they do the things that bring them the biggest return on the time they’re spending.

How we choose to spend our time is incredibly important to how successful and fulfilled we’re going to be.

What does success look like?

This is a much more complicated question than most people give credit for. And that’s because everyone’s idea of success is different and even YOUR idea of success can be different at different times in your life.

Some people think that you need to have a big house or a beautiful spouse or a “good” job to be successful. Others think that having your family close by and the chance to go on vacation every year is successful. Maybe success is continuing to learn new skills and strengthening the relationships you have with those around you.

As you can see, success can mean many things.

So what does it mean to you?

What would a successful life or even a successful day look like?

Once you know what success looks like you can start to build your days more intentionally so that you get the most out of them.

Your Roles

Your day to day roles are important to consider when thinking of how to get the most out of your time. Are you a mom, a teacher, a team member?

Chances are that you’ve got at least a few roles to think about. Most people have about 3-5 roles that are central to their everyday identity and those are the ones that you’re going to want to focus on in order to get the most fulfilment out of your time.

How do you fulfil your roles?

The trick to becoming your definition of successful is to consistently make time to fulfil your rolls.

Let’s take the 3 roles I mentioned above: mom, teacher, team member.

In order to feel like I’m fulfilling these roles I might want to make sure that I have breakfast and dinner with my kids every day and that I spend 20 minutes of uninterrupted time with each of them every day.

Maybe I want to make sure that I give detailed feedback on student’s assignments so that they can make their work better. I could also make sure that I’m approachable and available throughout the time I’m with my students.

As a team member, I might want to make sure that I’m actively collaborating on 1-2 projects with colleagues that will positively impact our work environment.

After I define these roles and what they mean to me, all that’s left to do is schedule them in to my days.

Being Your Best Self

After you start to add these things into your calendar you’ll find that they don’t actually take up that time and that the time you spend doing these things help you in 2 ways.

First, you’ll enjoy these tasks because they’re things that make a real difference to you. Second, they’ll be the tasks that give you energy throughout the rest of your day making the stuff you have to do that’s not as awesome more bearable.

Like most planning strategies, the more you do it the more your results will compound. Just like a flywheel it gets easier and easier since you build energy and momentum for yourself by spending your time on things that are worth it.

Want more like this?

Check out these posts:

Prioritize: How to know what to do when

Develop a GREAT Morning Routine

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Why you need Grammarly in your life

Two of the very first skills that we start to learn in life are reading and writing. These build the foundation for communicating with others in every capacity. It also allows us to open up our abilities for learning other subjects. To put it bluntly, it’s a must-have for pretty much everyone in today’s society.

I always loved to read. Throwing myself into fantasy worlds, pursuing adventures with my favourite characters… This is definitely my idea of a well-spent afternoon. I was always told by teachers that the more I read the better of a writer I would be, but I didn’t really see those results.

I read about two grade levels above mine in elementary school, conquering children’s novels by the end of 1st grade. Even though I’m an excellent reader, writing was always a lot harder. I was a below average speller, found punctuation difficult and I was often asked to re-write assignments since my penmanship was atrocious (Thank the Lord for computers right?).

My mediocre (at best) writing ability always hindered me in grade and high school and caused me to put more effort into math and science since report writing was way easier. But then moving into a business program in college I needed to start using those writing skills again, and boy were they rusty.

Using spellcheck in word documents helped but I was embarrassed about my poor skills. My embarrassment lead to mistakes in my writing since I had a hard time letting others proofread my work. Even this past summer when I started this blog I sent it to my dad and this is what he sent me back:

“Cool idea and a great start.
Your writing style is fun, light and conversational but you have quite a few typos and grammar issues.
I’d suggest you make use of a proofreader or at the very least wait a few hours before posting and re-look at your post with fresh eyes in order to digest the text as if you were a regular reader. As I think back… proofreading was never your strong suit “

Gotta love my dad, he’s a straight shooter. And he was right. My proofreading still sucked and I was never the most patient. Instead of waiting just went ahead and posted causing me to cringed later. I still have some posts that I haven’t re-wrote because I can’t stand how cringe-worthy they are.

But this email made it abundantly clear that I needed some help if I was to be a full-time content creator that relied on their writing. I did a bunch of research and I came across Grammarly.

Grammarly is the best tool that I’ve ever used. It’s an award-winning service that’s being used by everyone from universities to corporations. It helps students get better grades, professionals build their reputation and helps people learning English pick it up faster. I wish I had found it sooner!

The best part is that it’s absolutely free to sign up. All you do is click, make an account with your name and email address and you’re on your way to error-free writing.

Grammarly is the only tool I need to make sure that my blog posts are awesome and well written. It will also be the only tool you need to improve your writing immediately.

Sign up for a free account today by clicking the banner. I guarantee it’s a choice you’ll be happy with.

Setting Up Bluehost

Alright! So Bluehost is the most widely used web hosting service and has a ton of benefits, including 1-click WordPress setup, making it super easy to get your blog set up in a jiffy. This step by step tutorial will help you set up your hosting service in less than 15 minutes. Let’s get started!

When you Click on this link you’ll be brought to the Bluehost sales page where all you’ll need to do is click “Get Started Now”

That will bring you to this page where you can choose the plan that’s best for you. If this is your first blog/website I would recommend starting with the basic plan. If you see that there are features that you’d like to have by all means choose the plan that fits!

After that, you’ll be asked to create your domain. Your domain is free with Bluehost (bonus!) so you don’t have to worry about any additional cost. Go ahead and enter your domain and choose .com, .ca, .net etc. from the drop-down menu.

Next, you’ll fill out your account information which is just you’re basic contact info.

You’ll also confirm your package information. Notice that the $3.95/m price is based on a 3yr term and it will be billed altogether. The great thing here is that you only have to worry about it once and you’re good to go for 3 whole years! You can add the extras if you want but they aren’t necessary.

Of course, payment info is next so just pop our credit card into the secure site and you’re all set.

Just create a password to access your account

And you’re all done with setting up your hosting!

You can now log in and choose a theme for your brand new blog

There are tons to choose from so find one that suits your needs. There are tons of free themes and you can change your theme at any time so don’t fret too much. I know, all the options can be stressful!

Note: Themes are templates to build your site around and have specific customization options.

Bluehost will even help you set up your website depending on if it’s personal or for business. 💕

You can start your site here and get it ready to launch using their easy tools

Then all that’s left to do is launch!

Done and Done

Hope this was helpful! I stressed out about setting up my site soooo much when I was starting but Bluehost made it super easy and seamless. Honestly, it will be 50x easier than you’re expecting.

So at $3.95/m, take the plunge. Starting a blog/website isn’t something that’ll you’ll regret. All there is are possibilities to share your brilliance with the world and even make some money from doing so.

Get cracking!!

I’m ready! Take me to Bluehost

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