What’s the thing you complain about most at work?

Not enough time?

Too many meetings?

Your overflowing inbox?

Doing things outside the scope of your role?

Yearning for a vacation?

We like to think that we’re superheroes of highly-efficient productivity, yet on most days, that’s far from the truth. Because back in reality, we can only do so much.

Boundaries with your time are by far the hardest to keep. You may start the work day knowing your schedule and the tasks you wanna get done. Next thing you know, it’s after 5 PM, and your to-do list is far from complete.

If our work day is not structured to meet our specific needs, others will intentionally or unintentionally steal large swaths of our time, leaving us frustrated, resentful, and feeling behind.

I have a quick trick that’ll save your precious time and energy.

Part of you will want to tell your partner and friends about this because it’s so easy. Why wouldn’t everyone do it?

On the other hand, part of you will want to keep the unfair advantage to yourself.

December tends to be the most stressful, busiest month of the year. It's the time when we're torn between our personal commitments and priorities and going hard at work to finish strong on the year's goals, projects, and sales.

And while we may really want it to be the most wonderful time of the year, our to-do lists overflow with expectations and obligations, causing time stress, overwhelm, and frustration.

In a year poised with cliches of vision and prosperity, it simultaneously felt like time flew by and also painstakingly dripped like an annoying, leaky faucet.

I and the best psychics and fortune-tellers certainly didn’t see 2020 playing out this way. Days ran together in a monotonous manner. I often awoke in the not quite light out morning thinking, is it Tuesday or Friday?