REMASTERED: Protect Your Time, with Christy Wright (Business, Time Management, Success, Author)
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You can get more of anything in this life that you want, except time. You can earn more money. You can gain more relationships. You can find more stuff. But regardless of how much power or money or fame you have in your lifetime, you cannot have a single minute more than every other person has, which is exactly 24 hours in a day.
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I'm so excited to introduce to you Christy Wright, and she is inspiring and enthusiastic. She educates and entertains audiences all across the country. She speaks at business conferences, Fortune 500 companies, some of America's top universities. And so, Christy, I'm so excited to have you. Thank you for being here.
Yeah, thank you, Josh, for having me. I appreciate it.
So, you know, when we talk about time management, why do you think that is so important today? Why is that whole conversation such a big deal?
Well, you know, it's interesting in the last few years and speaking on this topic, is it such a pain point for people? This is something that we are struggling with in every industry, every demographic, every age, every generation. It doesn't matter the gender or anything. We're all struggling with how to deal with our time and how to manage it because we never seem to have enough for everything that we want to do. And I think one of the real challenges is that we don't realize just how finite it is. You can get more of anything in this life if you want, except time. You can earn more money. You can gain more relationships. You can buy more stuff. But regardless of how much power or money or fame you have in your lifetime, You cannot have a single minute more than every other person has, which is exactly 24 hours in a day. And so when you think about just how finite our time is, you start to realize how incredibly valuable it is. It's the only thing we can't get more of.
So it's that much more important that we really make sure we're putting it in the best places, the right places, and using it in a way that's going to be the most effective for the results we want to get.
If time is finite and it's the one thing that we all have the same amount of and you can't create more of, then why do you think some people accomplish more things and influence more people? So what's the explanation for that?
Well, I think how we manage it is definitely a big differentiator for our success. We have to keep in mind, too, everyone's version of success is very different. So someone that is a high achiever will have different goals than someone that wants to have a small people live in a small town and not have accomplishments or accolades. They value different things. And so our version of success will really determine how we handle our time. But because time is so finite and we all have to frame them out, then how we handle that really determines our ability to be our version of successful. And so whenever you look at it that way, you start thinking, okay, how can I manage this in a way that's going to get me to the results that I want to get to?
And what's interesting is there's a great quote by Warren Buffett where he says, the difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything. And I would say to answer your question, what's the difference between our ability to be successful with our time? It really comes down to our ability to say no. Because when we can't say no to things that, you know, demands and opportunities and guilt trips and things people try to suck us into, then we live our lives for other people. And we don't end up intentionally creating it on purpose, creating a schedule on purpose proactively to get to our results. We're achieving everyone else's results.
And so I think it comes down to the ability to say no and whether or not we're going to use that time in the way that we want to reach our goals.
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