Do You Have Any Special Tips for Better Time Management?

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Do you have any special tips for better time management? This is JJ Virgin four time New York Times best selling author, celebrity nutrition expert, expert and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert. Nikita on Facebook asks, I'm struggling more than ever with time management. Do you have any special tips? Hey, it's JJ and I've got New York Times best selling author of the Urban Monk and the Art of stopping time, Dr. Pedram Shojak with me to answer this question. He's a qigong master and Taoist abbot with a practical approach to modern living, using Eastern thinking and practices to help overcome the Westernized challenges of everyday life. And in his spare time, when he's not skiing the black Diamonds at Deer Valley, he's producing compelling docuseries including Interconnected Origins and Exhausted. He'll be right back to answer this question. Stay with us.

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Time is something we have as a gift. I mean, we're all born, get a certain amount of heartbeats, don't know how many that's going to be. And then we're out, right? And we're done. The time you're given, I mean, you could extend it hopefully with lifestyle measures and diet and exercise and, you know, stress management and you get hit by a bus, you know what I mean? Like, that is something that's kind of cosmic and out of our hands. But I can tell you one thing, we each have the same 24 hours in a day. The question then becomes, how many things have you slapped into a 24 hour period? And are you compressing that time or does that time feel spacious? Does that time feel great? I mean, look, you have your average day in your life, a million things to do, phone calls and meetings and whatever it is. Compare that day to a day where all you have to do is kick on your flip flops and walk down to the pool in some Mexican resort because you're on vacation. Those two days have the same 24 hours. One has a lot less crap stacked up, doesn't it? So how do you manage your time better? For me, I have to look at everything through my life garden. My life garden is this matrix through which I look at everything, saying, look, if I had room in my life for five plants, what would they be? My family and friends, my health, my career, my passions, desired objects, whatever it is for you. And you figure out what those plants are and you figure out how much water in the form of time, money and energy. We trade those three for each other all the time. How much water goes to each of these. How can you allocate water to the important things that day and then what do you got to say no to? What are the weeds? Right? And some days, you know, all your plants take a lot of water and it's just going to be a busy day and you just got to say no to all the other nonsense. And other days you could say, look, you know what? I got a deadline. I'm going to promise my kid, I'm going to take them, I don't know, to the park or whatever it is tomorrow, and I'm going to establish some balance through my day so that I can take care of the things that I know I need to take care of. And by assessing what the priorities are, I get better and better at saying no to the weeds. I get better at saying no to the things that are just going to crowd and compress my timeline and make me feel stressed.

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