MiGS13: Last Seen…Managing Time

If you think you don’t have time to listen to this episode of Men in Gorilla Suits…you probably need to listen to this episode of Men in Gorilla Suits. This week it’s all about time management!

We’ll tell you how to find the right time management system…for you! We discuss how having a day job can help you find time for your creative endeavors, and we praise the smart phone as a time management tool. (But probably not in the ways many “time management gurus” would tell us to use our phones.) We chat about time management tools and systems — including how some can take up more time than they may be worth for your needs. We share ways to identify bad uses of time, and how sometimes you just gotta suck it up and not do the things you want to do because other things take priority in your life for awhile. Hell, we even discuss the importance of allowing yourself to occasionally give in to being lazy (i.e. the Netflix Marathon).

Christopher shares the big time management tip that helped him tame his to-do list, and Shawn’s big tip for time management feeds itself each time he’s busy. There’s even a little Zen moment when we discuss if we’re like concrete or water in the way we create. Also: is waiting for “The Muse” a good idea, or is she a massive time management killer? (Spoiler: she’s really a succubus out to drain you of time you should just be creating!) Finally, we talk about the difference between multitasking (ick; you can’t do it, even if you think you can!) and task stacking (Hooray for task stacking!!!).

We know it’s asking a lot for an hour of your time, but that’s the length of a commute for most of us. We hope that by the end of this episode, you’ll get that hour back…and then some…

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