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Finding Time In The Day For Your Priorities With Tabitha Crocker – Ep. 19
With a constant bombardment of demands and responsibilities, it can be difficult to find time to focus on the things that really matter. In today’s episode we’re chatting with Tabitha Crocker on how to handle the feeling of not having enough time in the day and chatting through her goal aligned framework to help you find time for yourself and your priorities, let’s do this!
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Podcast Keypoints
0:00 – Episode Sponsorship
1:23 – Episode Overview
4:18 – Your Money Your Life For Tabitha
6:43 – There Isn’t Enough Time In The Day
7:53 – This Year Flew By…
9:38 – Aligned Goal Framework
12:48 – Time Blocking – Making It Work For You
16:43 – Adjusting Your Schedule If You’re Not A Morning Person
18:29 – What’s The One Action Step You Can Take Now
19:37 – RESOURCE – CEO Hub Trello Board
20:50 – FREE SUMMIT – Present Profitable Mom Summit
23:38 – Connect With Tabitha
24:08 – Challenge
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Finding Time In The Day For Your Priorities With Tabitha Crocker
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Introduction to Today’s Podcast Episode
Do you feel like there’s just not enough time in the day? You can never get done everything that you need to. There’s always something that falls through the cracks. Then this episode of the Your Money Your Life podcast is going to be for you. Tabitha is our guest today, and Tabitha is a productivity coach who is passionate about helping new mom entrepreneurs to leverage their time and energy using priority-based productivity techniques, scalable strategies, and mindset shifts.
Meet Tabitha: Productivity Coach and Entrepreneur
She empowers you to crush your business goals as a profitable entrepreneur and be a present mom without guilt or burnout. She’s addicted to bulletproof coffee, personal growth books, and family dance parties. As a blogger, course creator, coach, and mom, with a Bachelor’s in Psychology and a Master’s in Business, Tabitha runs her productivity coaching business while raising her son and her daughter with her husband in Alaska. Now what I love about Tabitha, we’ve had several conversations, so you’re just going to hear throughout the interview, that we’re very aligned when it comes to our priorities and what we’re focusing on. And you know, I love me some systems and managing my time. And the way that Tabitha focuses on this is just about so aligned, so I can’t wait for you to hear this interview. So, let’s do this!
Welcome to the Your Money Your Life Podcast
Welcome to the Your Money Your Life podcast. I’m your host, Aimee Cerka. After my husband and I faced three major financial roadblocks in the last six years, I felt like I wasn’t doing all that I could and I had let my family down. It always felt like life was a struggle, like I had to work harder than everyone else. It just came easy to them, and I didn’t feel worthy of success. Until a coach helped me see the successes in our experiences instead of our failures. This allowed me to create and implement systems to grow our network by 200,000+ while spending time with my loved ones and on my priorities. Now I help motivated women create the happiness, family life, financial security, and long-term wealth they deserve. If you’re ready to eliminate stress, struggle, frustration, and guilt within your finances, you’re in the right place. Welcome, I’m so glad you’re here!
A Conversation with Tabitha
Aimee: Welcome Tabitha, to the Your Money, Your Life Podcast. I’m so excited to have you here. I think this is going to be a great conversation.
Tabitha: Thank you so much for having me, Aimee. We are so well aligned in our missions and our philosophy, so I’m super excited to talk with you today.
Aimee: Yeah, it’s been a couple different conversations we’ve had now, and they’ve all been great. So, sure this one will be too. So first off, you know, always want to ask, what does your money, your life mean to you?
Tabitha: Well, I know this is kind of cliche for the “woowoo world,” but I really do feel like money is energy. And really, it’s kind of an extension of the energy in your life and how you’re choosing to live it. And really it can be, especially as an entrepreneur, your business is really an extension of who YOU are. And it’s really this constantly evolving process, and the flow of money is just that. It’s a tool and also a great feedback mechanism.
Tabitha’s Journey with Time Management and Productivity
Aimee: I like that. A feedback mechanism. And so, why don’t you tell me a little bit about your journey with focusing on time management and productivity?
Tabitha: Yes, so I’ve always been super, super organized. I love being organized. I always love finding the most efficient, effective way to do things. Like even in my career, I always found that I would get into a new position, and then I would literally make everything as efficient as possible, and then I’d be like, bored. And then I’d move up into the next position and like do the same thing. I really loved the puzzle and the challenge of trying to leverage my time and energy and then just make things literally run as efficient as possible. And then slowly, over time, in my own business, I started to realize that there were some common themes and ways that I could make my business more efficient and effective, and then kind of distilled them down into techniques and strategies that I could then teach other people, specifically moms who are also entrepreneurs, because we have some unique challenges that maybe someone who is a full-time entrepreneur and doesn’t have children or a family or those other priorities, it can look very different.
The Importance of Systems
Aimee: Definitely agree. And I have was interviewed on a podcast, was that last year? Yeah. And one of her questions that she always asked was, what’s your superpower? And I’m like, my superpower is like, I love systems. I’m like a systems expert. So like, I love to like create these and systematize all of this to make it easier and run seamlessly. And I think that’s why we get along so well.
Tabitha: I always joke that I’m like a super lazy person. So I’m like, oh, like how can this just like get done faster without me having to do things?
Building a Schedule
Aimee: Yeah. So without having to waste the brainpower, I’m like, just make like the schedule. I don’t have to think about what I’m doing today. Because today’s Thursday, so I vacuum and I meal plan for the week, like, it’s done!
Tabitha: Yes! Oh, we are kindred spirits, for sure.
Aimee: So often when we’re talking with prospective clients, or people that are looking to make these change, but they feel it won’t work for them, and it’s because of something. So, what’s the one myth that you would want to just bust to help them really see the light that there is hope?
Addressing Common Myths About Time Management
Tabitha: Yes, I think the biggest one that I hear most often is there isn’t enough time in the day. And it truly can feel that way, but if you are using your time that you do have inefficiently and ineffectively, like I’m sorry, this is like cold, hard truth, like punch in the gut, but if you have more time, that’s not going to solve your problem. If you’re being inefficient, you will simply continue to be inefficient and maybe you’ll have like a, you know, a tiny increase in getting more done. But really, overall, it’s not gonna make any difference. And we all have the same 24 hours in a day, and I’m sure that you have seen someone who is doing what you want to do. And I just challenge people to take that as inspiration instead of like, “She’s doing it so that means I can’t do it.” but the fact that she’s doing it means IT IS possible for you.
Aimee: Yeah, I love that and I also love to hear like, I’ve noticed that especially in 2021, as I like I streamline work on productivity and all of that, you know, people talk all the time about like, “This year flew by, and etc.” and like, “I can’t believe it’s December,” and I was looking around, I was like, I don’t have that feeling. And I think it’s because, you know, when you manage your time, and we’re going to talk a little bit about like, being aligned with your priorities here in a minute. But like when you’re in that place, it didn’t feel like life was flying by for lack of a better word. Have you had that experience? Or clients that have had that experience as well?
The Importance of Intentional Living
Tabitha: Yes, I know exactly what you’re talking about. And I think what it is, is when we get busy
and overwhelmed, we start to run on autopilot, and we’re not being intentional. And if you’re really leveraging your time and energy efficiently, then you’re being very intentional with what you’re doing. And so you’re really fully experiencing life, and it’s not just a big blur of chaos.
Aimee: Yes, yes, exactly. So what’s one thing that you would tell the listeners that they can do like, right now, today to help them move forward and start seeing those results?
Tabitha’s Advice: The Eisenhower Matrix
Tabitha: So something I always go back to, and I really think is such a powerful tool, and you’ve probably heard of it, and it’s probably so over-said, but it’s the Eisenhower matrix. And it’s urgent, important, not urgent, and important. Not important, but urgent. Not urgent, not important. And to just really look at the things that you’re doing every single day and kind of start to put them into these quadrants and see, like, are you spending time on things that are not urgent, not important? Because that’s probably not the best way to spend your time. Or are you really putting your priorities on those things that are important but not urgent? Because those are the things that typically are our priorities and goals and things that are really going to get us ahead. And if we’re not careful, we can let them kind of fall to the wayside. So really getting clear on your priorities and then just using that little tool to kind of plug those into place and see how you’re spending your time.
Aimee: Yes, and actually, so do you remember The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? And I know there was something else I was reading recently that referenced the Eisenhower matrix and the 7 Habits and so many of these, like really incredible resources that we can implement. So, I love that.
Where to Find Tabitha
So how can the listeners find you? Connect with you? What’s the best place for them to do that?
Tabitha: Yes, so I am most active on Instagram, and my handle is @themamamatters. And I’m there every single day sharing some sort of productivity or time management tips and also, you know, snippets of mom life and being an entrepreneur and the crazy balance that is life. So, that’s probably the best place to find me.
Aimee: Awesome. Well, thank you so much, Tabitha, for coming on the show. We’ll make sure we link all of those things up in the show notes, and we’ll see you next time.
Tabitha: Thank you so much. This was great.
Wrapping Up
Aimee: Okay, so I hope that you loved that conversation with Tabitha, and you found it as inspiring and helpful as I did. I mean, time management and productivity, that is something that we are constantly working on. I mean, we have to manage our money, our time, our energy, our priorities, and everything that we’re focusing on. So, if you loved this episode, I would love it if you would screenshot it, tag me on Instagram, let me know what your favorite part was, and make sure to tag Tabitha as well. If you have not already, subscribe to the podcast, leave us a review. And if you do, I would love it if you would let me know, because I would love to thank you and shout you out. So, that’s it for this episode of the Your Money, Your Life Podcast. I’ll see you next time.
Outro
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