Dan Martell - December 10, 2014


Why Energy Management Is Better Than Time Management


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Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

219.9955

Word Count

977

Sentence Count

57


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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody what's up it's Dan here and today I want to talk about the
00:00:04.360 difference between time management and energy management. A lot of people
00:00:09.240 confuse the two and it's been something that's been instrumental in my
00:00:12.180 entrepreneurial career to get right because I believe that you can't manage
00:00:16.920 time. Time is infinite like this minute or these minutes you're gonna watch this
00:00:21.280 video are just gonna occur. You can only decide what you do within that time and
00:00:25.320 what I've learned over the years and it's taken me like 10 plus years to
00:00:29.400 figure this out is that it's more important to manage the tasks and energy
00:00:34.520 levels of those tasks throughout your day than to try to just overly schedule
00:00:39.420 and be super productive or whatever you think that is. So again, energy
00:00:43.080 management over time management. So here's how it works. Time management is
00:00:47.520 trying to figure out the productivity side. Energy management is saying what is
00:00:52.740 the energy involved to accomplish that task and what part of the day do I
00:00:58.200 Do I feel would be the best to represent that?
00:01:01.360 So here's how I do it for me.
00:01:03.000 I always like to start my day with the best routine.
00:01:05.980 I call it the morning ritual.
00:01:07.700 And this always involves, just because of me again, everybody's different.
00:01:11.460 I always go to bed somewhat early, around 9.30, 10 o'clock at night.
00:01:15.000 I like to get up early and go to the gym.
00:01:17.340 Because I know that if I go to the gym, I'm going to have one of the most amazing days.
00:01:21.080 I then spend time getting ready for the day.
00:01:23.720 It's kind of like my planning moment where my willpower and my brain and my thoughts
00:01:27.900 on what do I want to do that day are really the strongest.
00:01:31.400 So I sit down and I plan my day.
00:01:33.280 Now I usually get one or two what I call big rocks and it's not my concept.
00:01:38.520 Many people have written about this online.
00:01:40.520 Many big rocks finish for the day in the morning.
00:01:43.740 This is before anybody else, any other meetings that I schedule.
00:01:47.020 I try to schedule my first meeting at 10 a.m. with the team.
00:01:50.420 Everything's done before 10 a.m.
00:01:51.940 This is when I move the big rocks so that if I get nothing done for the rest of the
00:01:55.060 day, which I'm sure you've experienced where at the end of the day you'll look back and
00:01:58.380 say, what did I do with my day?
00:02:00.940 You'll at least get that done.
00:02:02.400 So I get those big rocks moving.
00:02:04.980 Then I try to do paperwork after my morning meetings.
00:02:07.820 Again, it's just the way my brain works.
00:02:09.340 I just feel like I'm more detailed oriented right before lunch.
00:02:12.120 I always have lunch with people.
00:02:15.040 It's the only part of my day because I have two small kids and I'm very involved in kind
00:02:19.840 of spending time with them.
00:02:21.880 is my time to interact with people from outside the business. Anybody who wants to reach out to
00:02:26.060 me and have lunch, that's when we do it. And then after lunch is when I organize my in-person
00:02:31.140 meetings. For me, it's a lot of phone calls. I don't like traveling or spending time in the car.
00:02:36.880 I think that's a huge time waster. If you're that kind of person that always goes to errands,
00:02:41.560 you really got to ask yourself, why do I always need to drive to go see somebody? What if I could
00:02:45.320 get them to come to me? Or even better yet, what if we just did a phone call or shot an email? I
00:02:49.840 think a lot of people spend time in commute that don't need to. That is my afternoon. So I keep
00:02:56.660 the energy high because usually at lunch if you didn't eat something super lean it's going to
00:03:00.800 have an effect. So I do my phone calls, I do my meetings, it energizes me. And then at night time
00:03:06.380 after I always get the kids and then bring them back and kind of feed them, bathe them, put them
00:03:10.480 to bed. At night time is when I do my research. This is for consuming any content that might have
00:03:15.840 came out through the day. I don't like getting distracted. I'm easily distracted and it's probably why I spent so much time trying to figure out this process. So at night time is when I sit down and I read anything, I research stuff, I kind of go through all the stuff that I need to learn more about to kind of work on my day or my week or my month. And that is my night time routine. So that's how I manage the energy levels throughout the day knowing who I am. Some people like to work late. I used to be that way but it just seems when you've got human
00:03:45.600 alarm clocks you just can't do that as well so for whatever it is for you just
00:03:51.060 understand that it's not about time management you'll get way more done when
00:03:54.420 you start thinking about what are the energy levels during the day what is the
00:03:58.140 most suited type of tasks that match those energy levels and how can I put
00:04:03.120 them in group them together so that I get those things done in that form again
00:04:08.340 my friend Alex asked me to do these videos I'm gonna do one a day for the
00:04:11.460 the next 30 days, every Monday, I will see you next Monday
00:04:15.000 and I'd love to hear from you in the comments below.
00:04:17.160 Let me know what the biggest takeaway,
00:04:19.080 let me know what you wanna hear from me,
00:04:20.380 I'd love to understand that.
00:04:21.920 So just leave a comment below and I'll see you next Monday.
00:04:24.820 Have an amazing week.