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Speaker 1: This is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host
Speaker 1: Paul Fellovledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the Seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode two thirty four. Today we're not just talking
Speaker 2: about managing your time. We're burning in efficiency to the ground.
Speaker 2: This is the Scorched Earth time management Method, a ruthless,
Speaker 2: no holds barred approach to optimizing your daily routine, eliminating distractions,
Speaker 2: and making every single minute count. If you've ever felt
Speaker 2: like your time is slipping through your fingers, this episode
Speaker 2: will help you take it back and dominate your day. First,
Speaker 2: we're starting with expose the waste, because we can't fix
Speaker 2: what we can't see. To adopt the Scorched Earth time
Speaker 2: management method, you need to start with a time audit
Speaker 2: for one week. Track everything you do every single minute.
Speaker 2: Use a tool like toggle or clockify, or even a
Speaker 2: simple notepad. Categorize your activities into three buckets. High Impact
Speaker 2: Tasks is your first bucket, things that directly contribute to
Speaker 2: your goals. These are your leadership tasks, strategic planning or
Speaker 2: revenue generating activities. The next bucket is low impact tasks,
Speaker 2: so this is administrative work, emails or non essential meetings
Speaker 2: and distractions are the third bucket social media, idle chats
Speaker 2: or general time wasting activities. And at the end of
Speaker 2: the week, take a hard look at the pattern. Where
Speaker 2: are you wasting the most time, what distractings are eating
Speaker 2: your day? And most importantly, are you spending enough time
Speaker 2: on tasks that truly move the needle. This is your foundation.
Speaker 2: You cannot go scorched earth if you don't know what
Speaker 2: to burn. Next is the actual scorched Earth method framework,
Speaker 2: and that framework is eliminate, automate, and delegate. So for eliminate,
Speaker 2: be ruthless. What meetings, tasks or habits can you eliminate entirely?
Speaker 2: Cancel non essential meetings and replace long discussions with quick updates.
Speaker 2: Use tools like Freedom or cold Turkey to block distractions
Speaker 2: like social media. Next is automate, invest in the tools
Speaker 2: that handle repetitive tasks. Use Zapier to automate workflows like
Speaker 2: save meeting notes to a shared drive, automate scheduling with
Speaker 2: calendar or clockwise, and for content creation, use AI tools
Speaker 2: like chatchpt for blog drafts, agendas or email templates. And
Speaker 2: last is delegate. Stop doing tasks that don't require your expertise.
Speaker 2: Empower your team to make decisions or handle recurring tasks
Speaker 2: without your constant input, and use project management tools like
Speaker 2: notion or click up to delegate effectively in track progress,
Speaker 2: and by eliminating waste and automating the repetitive and delegating
Speaker 2: the rest, you free up time to focus on what
Speaker 2: truly matters. Next, we have to talk about batching, blocking,
Speaker 2: and extreme discipline. Once you've cleared the clutter, you'll need
Speaker 2: extreme discipline to stay efficient, and here are three strategies
Speaker 2: that elite performers use. Number one is batching tasks. Group
Speaker 2: similar tasks together and knock them out in one sitting.
Speaker 2: For example, record all your podcast episodes for the week
Speaker 2: in one block of time. Wink wink. Respond to emails
Speaker 2: once or twice a day instead of reacting as they
Speaker 2: come in. Next is time blocking. Assign specific blocks of
Speaker 2: time on your calendar for focused work and for deep,
Speaker 2: high impact tasks, use ninety minute focus sprints, take a
Speaker 2: fifteen minute break, then go again. Protect these blocks like
Speaker 2: they're sacred, no interruptions allowed. And last is the morning
Speaker 2: power hour. Start your day with your most critical task,
Speaker 2: no emails, no social media, just pure focus on something
Speaker 2: that drive results. And the last topic is the mindset
Speaker 2: shift extreme ownership over time. And here's the truth. Managing
Speaker 2: your time isn't about working harder. It's about taking absolute,
Speaker 2: extreme ownership of every minute. Treat your time like it's
Speaker 2: the most valuable currency you have, because it is. And
Speaker 2: here's how to adopt the Scorched Earth mindset set. Non negotiables.
Speaker 2: Identify two or three critical tasks every day that must
Speaker 2: get done, no excuses, say no more often if it
Speaker 2: doesn't align with your goals, it's a no, and review weekly.
Speaker 2: Reflect on how you spent your time, what worked, what didn't,
Speaker 2: and then adjust accordingly. So by now you've got the
Speaker 2: tools to redesign your life for total efficiency. Perform your
Speaker 2: time audit and ruthlessly cut the waste, automate the repetitive,
Speaker 2: delegate the unnecessary. Then lock in your extreme discipline with batching, blocking,
Speaker 2: and owning every minute of your day. The Scorched Earth
Speaker 2: time management method isn't easy, it's uncomfortable. If you commit,
Speaker 2: you'll take control of your time, boost your productivity and
Speaker 2: achieve more than you've ever thought possible. This has been
Speaker 2: the seven Minute Leadership Podcast, and I thank you for listening.
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