In this solo YouTube video, Ty (Tyrone Bray) challenges the conventional notion of "time management" and reframes it as self‑management within the limited span of time we experience. He presents three practical strategies to make self‑management easier and less stressful. First, he explains how to prioritise by distinguishing important tasks—those that directly advance personal goals such as weight loss, business growth, or relationship improvement—from urgent tasks that merely feel pressing. He argues that focusing on important tasks naturally leads to the completion of truly urgent ones. Second, he advocates time‑blocking using the Pomodoro Technique: breaking work into 25‑minute focused intervals, eliminating distractions, and taking short breaks, which often yields more output than longer, unfocused sessions. Third, he stresses the need to set realistic, actionable goals that feel achievable; unrealistic goals trigger internal resistance, procrastination, and demotivation. He expands on procrastination as an avoidance tactic, illustrated through a live comment from a viewer named Neil, and explains how fear of loss or discomfort fuels delay. The video concludes with a recap of the three strategies, an invitation for viewers to comment or email questions, and a promise of future content.
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Hey guys, what's up and welcome to today's video. So today I'm going to give you guys my 3 best strategies for managing time. Now I say managing time because if you've seen my previous videos around time management, you'll kind of understand that I don't believe that time management is really a thing. Instead, I believe it's a case of self-management within the span of what we experience as time. So it's not the, oh, I can't manage my time, it's you can't manage yourself within the time that you have. But either way, quite often when it comes to managing ourselves, it helps if we have some specific strategies or tactics that we can implement in order to make our perceived management of time much more simple, much easier, and often far less stressful. So the first thing is prioritisation. Now that kind of sounds obvious, like, well, obviously, Ty, I've been trying to prioritise, but I still can't seem to do the things I want to do or need to do. On a consistent basis. Now, quite often the reason for this is because we fail to prioritize and separate the difference between our important tasks and our urgent tasks. Now, the catch is often things feel urgent, like they have to be done now, so we often end up focusing on them. The catch is they're not necessarily important or relevant to the specific outcomes or goals that we're looking to achieve. Now, we might have these big goals, whether it's weight loss or building our business or improving our relationships and so on, and we maybe have specific things that we need to do in order to achieve those goals. That's cool. But often there are so many other pressing issues throughout the day that feel urgent, like they need to be sorted out right now, that we often leave those so-called more important tasks to last. Now, the catch is when we leave them to last, first off, they get our tired and worn out self because we've been busy dealing with these so-called urgent things all day. And then the other catch is obviously we have this inability to focus as clearly because most of our energy, resources, etc. have been spent on those earlier tasks. So if we can instead look at all of the different things that we need to do and go, okay, well, these are the things that are important, these are the things that are going to specifically lead me to my goals and my outcomes. These are the things that must be done this week in order to move me forward versus these are the urgent things or the things that feel like they need to be done quickly and urgently and need to be responded to immediately. Guess what? Those things will get done anyway. If you focus on the important tasks, the things that are actually going to move you forward and move you towards your goals, those urgent things, if they're truly urgent, you'll do them anyway because we operate based on what we prioritize gets done. So the things that we prioritize in our mind tend to be the things that get done. So if we can prioritize those important tasks, hopefully they will get done, and then the urgent tasks will take care of themselves anyway because, well, they're urgent, we have to do them. So that's our first thing. We must learn how to effectively prioritize. Now, the second thing comes down to time blocking and things like that. Now, for me, the most effective use of time blocking is to use the Pomodoro Technique. Now, you may have heard of this before, but basically it's where you chunk your work sessions or your work blocks into 25-minute sessions. So some of you might be able to work for 50 minutes or an hour or 90 minutes and beyond and so on. That's cool and awesome. But if you find that you can't do that, one of the best things that you can do if you find you get distracted a lot is break down all the tasks you need to do today and kind of get an idea in your mind of how long each task will take you, and then you block it out into 25-minute work sessions. And you literally take a timer, start your work session, hit the timer, turn your phone over so you can't see all the notifications, put it on silent, and so on. And you want a clear, undistracted environment where you can work for a solid 25 minutes. At the end of that 25 minutes, you can get up, go for a walk, have a breather, grab a drink, and so on. If you feel good enough to continue working, then feel free to continue working. You just reset the timer and go again. But only if you think you can complete that 25-minute block undistracted. And what you will likely find is quite often within that 25-minute work session, you'll get more done than you had in the previous 90 minutes or the previous 2 hours and so on. Just because you're giving yourself that undivided attention on the specific task that you want to get completed or at least significantly worked through in that 25-minute block. So that's my second one, time blocking specifically using the Pomodoro Technique. And then the third thing that you'll, that you'll want to do ultimately is set realistic goals. Now again, this kind of sounds like an easy one and an obvious one, but most of us don't do it. We have massive goals, which is cool. You should have big goals that stretch you and inspire you and so on. I've said this before, but you need to set a goal that genuinely in your mind is at least realistic. Now, and when I say realistic, it's a case of, okay, well, if I do this, this, and this, then I know that I can eventually achieve that thing. Now, I say realistic because if there is a part of you, particularly if that part of you is greater than the part that believes— so if there was a part of you that thinks, hmm, nah, I can't do this, I don't think I'm going to be able to achieve that thing— then unfortunately you won't put in the effort to get there. You might act as if you are and sort of show up in this version that sort of shows the outside world that it looks like you're interested and determined and and committed to reaching this thing. You show up, you say the right things in front of others, you act the right way. But when you're, when you're alone or on your own, which is the same as being alone obviously, but when you're alone and on your own, what tends to happen is you procrastinate a lot or you find other things that need to be done, some of those urgent tasks that often just get in the way of those important things that you're trying to do. So this goal that you have just stays there. You never really move any further towards it, or if you do, it's very, very small amounts. And then we make excuses and reasons as to why the deadline that you had for this goal needs to keep getting pushed further and further away. And then, of course, unfortunately, what tends to happen is we become more and more demotivated and often find that we trust ourselves less and less because we keep failing to show up for ourselves. So we have to be careful with that. Cool, we've just got a comment come in from Neil. What we got? What we got? So, never suffered with procrastination but have done lately. Could be my age now, I don't know. Yeah, that's an interesting one. If you, if it's something you've never actually struggled with, um, often procrastination, it may not be the case for yourself, but often procrastination is, it's a, it's a, it's an avoidance tactic. We're trying to avoid something that we know we may have to experience or we're trying to avoid something that we know we may have to lose in the now. So it's, oh, here's my goal, but in order to get there, I've got to do these uncomfortable things and push myself out of my comfort zone. Sometimes that will cause us to procrastinate. Or it's a case of, in order to have this new thing, I have to give up all these other things which I love, or I perceive that I'm going to have to give them up. So again, we procrastinate and delay and sort of put up these barriers because there's something within our world that we don't want to lose or that we we perceive that we're going to lose, maybe won't, but we think that we will have to or give them up and sacrifice them. So we stop acting in alignment with the outcome that we want. That could be the case for yourself. Of course, I don't know your specific situation right now, so I don't know specifically, but likely it's related to that, something you don't want to experience or something you don't want to give up. Cool. Right, people. So those are my 3 strategies. One is prioritization. 2 is time blocking using the Pomodoro Technique, and 3 is to set genuinely realistic goals that you feel confident taking action towards. As always, people, thank you for watching. If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments below or reach out to me on my email, and I will get back to you with another video soon. Take care, and I shall chat to you guys tomorrow.
