Dr. Wayne Pernell suggests auditing your calendar two weeks out to find meetings you don't actually need to attend. Skip the non-essential ones or get updates by email instead, so you can focus on what matters.
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You've said yes. So you get to decide how to handle those. Now, there's one challenge that I have for you, and that is to take a look at your calendar for two weeks from now. Are there meetings on that week that you actually don't really, really, really need to be at, whether you called the meeting or whether you're being called to the meeting? Are there meetings that week that you don't need to be at? Could it be done via email? Could you get the catch up notes? And so the challenge is look at your calendar starting two weeks from now, because over the next two weeks, you'll probably want to fulfill the obligations you have two weeks from now.