014: Learn to Master Your Time (not just manage time)

People don't often see the bigger perspective in their minds like they should be seen. And they end up doing things they shouldn't be working on in the first place. But seeing past the barriers of clearly seeing might not be a walk in the park. But, it's not all that difficult if one learns to focus their mindset and manage their time, like identifying your top priorities. When people break past these barriers, they can be more productive. Emily Sander, currently a C suite executive in corporate America, founder and primary coach at next level coaching. She works with business leaders and entrepreneurs working on their prioritization and time management to make them more productive. She wrote a book earlier this year called Hacking executive leadership. Now, she joins the podcast to talk more about the practical things of managing time and developing a mental mindset to build a foundation that will enable one to go forward.  Strengths The first big concept is to play to your strengths, identify your strengths, play to them and get other people or processes or automation, or help for the things you're not good at. You can identify what you're good at by asking yourself what comes naturally to you? What do you like doing? What do you lose time doing? What are you known for? And then delegate higher or build a process to the rest. Playing to your strengths is important for two main reasons. You get further faster in what you're doing because you're good at it. And secondly, if you spend time doing things that are not in your area of strength, you waste time there because you're not as good, but you also wear yourself out and tire yourself out when you get to the things that you're good at. So, it's almost like a double compounded negative, and you're stacking it against yourself. ZonesThe green zone is positive, and the red zone is negative. If you're in the green zone, you are energetic, enthusiastic, forward-thinking, feel like you're on your game, have good ideas, and contribute well. Conversely, if