Francisco Gonzales explains how he manages time as a CEO: he schedules family, business, and self-care equally in Google Calendar and refuses to be a slave to work. He uses the airplane-mask analogy: secure yourself first to support others.
Time management is another thing I love. If you are able to have good time management, you have enough time for everything. How do you manage your time? Well, I try to dedicate the necessary time to the business. How do you define that? Well, in terms of having a balance. And that balance is when you put the business before your family. Well, there are multiple cases, right. So I believe that family is the most important thing. But if you are able to dedicate quality time, but truly quality time, and you make quality time for the company and you also dedicate time to yourself. Because as they say on airplanes, I like that phrase, they say put on your mask first and then you put it on someone else's. Because if you don't put it on yourself first, how are you going to be able to support others? You have to be, well, yourself, right? So when it comes to time management, you can't be a slave to your business either. So time is the only thing that doesn't come back. You can have businesses that make a lot of money, that leave a lot of satisfaction, but also many that. But time doesn't come back. So I am very efficient in my opinion, in how I use my time. Do you use any tools or what guides you? No, no. Google Calendar? Yes, I use Google Calendar for all my things, both professional and personal. And no other task management apps or anything like that. We have some cloud applications, but they are more for business purposes, you know. No, they are for how I manage my time.
