How to Organize Your Time and Your Life
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In the Linkedln Learning podcast, “How to Organize Your Time and Your Life” by Julie Morgenstern, she talks about ways to manage your time for greater productivity and build a system tailored to your needs. Julie talks about the three steps for organizing anything, the analyze, the strategize, and the attack. She gives an example where she was coaching a well-accomplished man who was overworked but got all his work done. She talks about how she could not just tell the man to just attack the problem by making a to do list, but to first ask a series of questions to really zero in on what needs to be fixed and what doesn’t. Then, she would tell him to figure out his goal, what and where he is trying to get to. By creating a “bucket list” of the top things he need to do, he can then try to plan how much time he got. By figuring out what he wants then thinking how he is going to get it done in the certain amount of time, then he can start to attack the problems. From this podcast, I learned about the best steps to plan my time and get things done. I should also try to focus on one thing at a time to efficiently manage my time. This podcast relates to my career goals in that I have to plan my time wisely in order to get work done. Even now I can use it due to me working two different jobs and balancing my coursework at the same time.