How to Set Boundaries and Protect Your Time

How to Set Boundaries and Protect Your Time

21mIntermediate2021-01-29

Authors

Paula Rizzo

Paula Rizzo

Author, Emmy-Winning Producer, Productivity Coach

Course details

Productivity coach, author, and Emmy-winning producer Paula Rizzo shares powerful tips to help you set boundaries to protect and take control of your time. Some things sneak onto your to-do lists that make you unproductive, unhappy, and stressed. Paula helps you visualize how much different your life, including your productivity and happiness levels, could look if crucial time is protected. Paula highlights the need to identify where you’d most like to be spending your time and to learn how to track your time consistently. She teaches how to set clear rules for whenever you are making decisions about your time and schedule. Paula covers the power of no and how to say it with ease and grace. Once you say yes, it’s important to stay accountable and set yourself up for success. In closing, Paula steps you through applying a strategy to set clear boundaries and stick to rules to get back your time and create a happier, more productive work and personal life.

Skills covered

Remote WorkTime ManagementWell-Being and Self-CarePersonal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Boundaries are your friend

The Case for Protecting Your Time

  • Your future life
  • Identify your best time spent

Time Tracking 101

  • Where does the time go
  • Common time-wasting activities
  • Shortcuts to identify time-wasters before they take over

Setting Your Own Personal Boundaries

  • Setting rules to take back your time
  • Ways to get in 'the zone' and get things done
  • Structuring your day for optimal productivity

Strategies to Stay on Track

  • Clear and kind ways to say 'no'
  • How to stay accountable

Conclusion

  • Just because you can, doesn't mean you should