Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and goal achieving.
Speaker 1: This is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host
Speaker 1: Paul Fellavledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode six oh six. Today's episode is You'll stay
Speaker 2: average forever until you master these four powerful time rules.
Speaker 2: Most leaders are not overwhelmed because they have too much
Speaker 2: to do. They're overwhelmed because they have never been taught
Speaker 2: how to control time without lying to themselves. Time is
Speaker 2: not the problem. Discipline is the problem. Clarity is the problem.
Speaker 2: Boundaries are the problem.
Speaker 1: There are four.
Speaker 2: Simple time rules. None of them are fancy, none of
Speaker 2: them are new, all of the work, and most people
Speaker 2: ignore them because they look too basic to matter, and
Speaker 2: that mistake keeps leaders average. So let's break these down
Speaker 2: and turn them into real leadership moves you can apply immediately.
Speaker 2: The first rule, the eight plus eight plus eight rule.
Speaker 2: Eight hours for you, eight hours for focused work, eight
Speaker 2: hours for deep, guilt free sleep. This is not a
Speaker 2: lifestyle quote. This is an operating system. Leaders love to
Speaker 2: brag about grinding late nights, early mornings, running on fumes.
Speaker 2: That is not leadership that is poor energy management dressed
Speaker 2: up as dedication. If you do not protect time for
Speaker 2: your body, your relationships, and your mental reset, your decision
Speaker 2: quality drops, your patience shortens, your communication gets sloppy, your
Speaker 2: leadership presence erodes. So your action step look at your
Speaker 2: calendar this week in block time that is non negotiable
Speaker 2: for you, not left over time, scheduled time. Treat it
Speaker 2: like a meeting with your most important stakeholder, because it
Speaker 2: truly is. The second rule, the one three five rule.
Speaker 2: One massive goal that scares you, three key tasks that
Speaker 2: move you forward, and five quick wins that clean up noise.
Speaker 2: Most leaders fail because everything feels important. When everything matters,
Speaker 2: nothing moves. Your one massive goal is the anchor. If
Speaker 2: it does not scare you, it's not big enough. This
Speaker 2: is the thing that actually changes your role, your income,
Speaker 2: your impact, or your future. The three key tasks are
Speaker 2: the moves that push that goal forward today, not someday today.
Speaker 2: The five quick wins are maintenance, email errands, paperwork necessary,
Speaker 2: but not leadership work. So your action step start every
Speaker 2: morning by writing your one three five on paper, not
Speaker 2: your phone. Paper slows you down enough to think clearly.
Speaker 2: The third rule, the ten minute rule. Ten minutes of
Speaker 2: deadly focus, two minutes of rest, and then repeat. This
Speaker 2: rule exists for leaders who struggle to start. Procrastination is
Speaker 2: not laziness. Its resistance ten minutes is small enough that
Speaker 2: your brain cannot argue its way out of it. Once
Speaker 2: you start, momentum takes over, focus sharpens, confidence builds, work
Speaker 2: gets done. So your action step pick one task you've
Speaker 2: been avoiding, Set a timer for ten minutes, phones down,
Speaker 2: notifications off. When the timer ends, stand up, breathe, reset,
Speaker 2: and then go again. The fourth rule is the ninety
Speaker 2: ninety one rule. Ninety minutes for ninety days on one
Speaker 2: life changing goal. This role separates leaders who dabble from
Speaker 2: leaders who transform. Most people scatter their effort a little here,
Speaker 2: a little there, Progress stays shallow. Depth wins, consistency wins.
Speaker 2: Time focused on one thing compounds fast. So your action
Speaker 2: step identify your one life changing goal for the next
Speaker 2: ninety days. Schedule ninety minutes on your calendar at the
Speaker 2: same time every day. Protect it like a command decision.
Speaker 2: And here is the leadership truth underneath all four rules.
Speaker 2: Time reveals priorities, Calendars expose honesty, excuses, hide fear. Average
Speaker 2: leaders react to time. Strong leaders command it. You do
Speaker 2: not need better hacks, You need better standards around how
Speaker 2: you spend your minutes. If you want to lead at
Speaker 2: a higher level, stop negotiating with yourself. Pick one role
Speaker 2: from today's episode and apply it for the next seven days.
Speaker 2: Watch what changes in your energy, your focus and your confidence.
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