Rory Vaden

shift that needs to happen is it's not like i'm this helpless victim that is subject to the world around me who is unfairly blasting me with all this stuff no you're in charge like you everything that exists in your life you either said you said yes to it in some way so it is your responsibility and and you created the problem but that also means that you are in charge of fixing it that you have the power to change it but

shift that needs to happen is it's not like i'm this helpless victim that is subject to the world around me who is unfairly blasting me with all this stuff no you're in charge like you everything that exists in your life you either said you said yes to it in some way so it is your responsibility and and you created the problem but that also means that you are in charge of fixing it that you have the power to change it but

what we started to realize is that most of what people have learned and think about time management, I went so far as the opening line in my TED talk is I said, everything you know about time management is wrong. It's wrong because we have been taught to think about time in a very, you know, linear way. And the world today is much more like multidimensional.

what we started to realize is that most of what people have learned and think about time management, I went so far as the opening line in my TED talk is I said, everything you know about time management is wrong. It's wrong because we have been taught to think about time in a very, you know, linear way. And the world today is much more like multidimensional.

Yeah, so a little bit about that. We love to take people on a quick history of time management theory. So era one time management thinking was very one-dimensional. We refer to era one thinking as efficiency. So that was the strategy was I got 10 things on my to-do list, how do I crank them out faster?

Yeah, so a little bit about that. We love to take people on a quick history of time management theory. So era one time management thinking was very one-dimensional. We refer to era one thinking as efficiency. So that was the strategy was I got 10 things on my to-do list, how do I crank them out faster?

time management and productivity as a body of work really develops, like it comes on in the scene in like 1950s, 60s. So, you know, it's the manufacturing era where it's conveyor belts and engineering and just doing things faster. That also reflected in our mindset was how can I be more efficient?

time management and productivity as a body of work really develops, like it comes on in the scene in like 1950s, 60s. So, you know, it's the manufacturing era where it's conveyor belts and engineering and just doing things faster. That also reflected in our mindset was how can I be more efficient?

now efficiency is good all things being equal doing things faster is great the problem is that there is a point of diminishing returns to using efficiency as your only strategy for productivity right um which is that no matter how fast we move the the amount of busy work always expands to fill the amount of time available right So it's more like quicksand.

now efficiency is good all things being equal doing things faster is great the problem is that there is a point of diminishing returns to using efficiency as your only strategy for productivity right um which is that no matter how fast we move the the amount of busy work always expands to fill the amount of time available right So it's more like quicksand.

It's just kind of like the faster you go or the more that shows up. It doesn't mean you shouldn't be fast. It's just not going to get you what you're looking for. Then in the late 80s, Dr. Stephen Covey wrote a book that changed the world, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. I'm sure you're familiar with it and sold tens of millions of copies.

It's just kind of like the faster you go or the more that shows up. It doesn't mean you shouldn't be fast. It's just not going to get you what you're looking for. Then in the late 80s, Dr. Stephen Covey wrote a book that changed the world, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. I'm sure you're familiar with it and sold tens of millions of copies.

Dr. Covey pretty much single-handedly introduced a new era of time management thought that the world refers to as prioritizing, but we would classify prioritizing as era two thinking, which is still to this day the predominant strategy that most people use in terms of how they think about time. Here's what prioritizing is. It's to focus first on what matters most. Super powerful, super relevant.

Dr. Covey pretty much single-handedly introduced a new era of time management thought that the world refers to as prioritizing, but we would classify prioritizing as era two thinking, which is still to this day the predominant strategy that most people use in terms of how they think about time. Here's what prioritizing is. It's to focus first on what matters most. Super powerful, super relevant.

Dr. Covey had this thing called the time management matrix that he explained of urgency and importance. And basically, he taught us to score our activities so that we could reorder them and say, it's not just about getting these done faster. It's saying, hey, item number seven needs to be pushed to item number one. which is valuable. And so that's super valuable.

Dr. Covey had this thing called the time management matrix that he explained of urgency and importance. And basically, he taught us to score our activities so that we could reorder them and say, it's not just about getting these done faster. It's saying, hey, item number seven needs to be pushed to item number one. which is valuable. And so that's super valuable.

Prioritizing is as important today as ever before. But what I noticed in my own life, because I was a student of Dr. Covey and several books on time, I mean, there's no shortage of books on time management. There's no shortage of apps. There's all these tips and tricks and tools and technology that exist to help us with this problem of feeling so busy. And yet,

Prioritizing is as important today as ever before. But what I noticed in my own life, because I was a student of Dr. Covey and several books on time, I mean, there's no shortage of books on time management. There's no shortage of apps. There's all these tips and tricks and tools and technology that exist to help us with this problem of feeling so busy. And yet,

the majority of us are still overwhelmed.

the majority of us are still overwhelmed.