From the course: Building a Time Management Mindset

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Build your time management system

Build your time management system

- Here's something fascinating I've noticed. People who are terrible at time management are constantly thinking about time. They're always worrying about what they need to do, how they'll get it all done, and what might be falling through the cracks. But people who are really good at time management, they barely think about time at all. The difference is that effective people have built systems that do the remembering for them. Psychologists call this cognitive offloading. It's just a fancy term for something pretty simple, getting stuff out of your head and into reliable external tools. Now, remember the four tools we've talked about? Here's where they all come together. Each tool is designed to offload a specific type of mental information. Let's start with your calendar. Its job is very simple. It holds all of your must do commitments, like meetings, deadlines, and appointments. You never have to wake up wondering when is this important event, because your calendar already knows…

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