046: Time Margin—Are You Drowning, Treading Water, or Gliding?

Are you what author Bridget Schulte calls OBL, Overwhelmed By Life? I am this week . . . maybe you can relate. This week I'm putting words to crunched time margin. In a future episode, I'll share what I'm experimenting with to transform to-do list drowning into gliding.

📘 Books Mentioned:

Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business — If you want to join the book launch team to get insider access and community leading up to the launch, sign-up at itsfreetime.com/join and you’ll be the first to know when that kicks off!

• Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

• Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More

• Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

• Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

• Scarcity: The Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives

• Who Not How: The Formula For Achieving Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork

🎧 Podcast Episodes Mentioned:

• The Tim Ferriss Show: Terry Laughlin—The Master Who Changed My Life (#276)

• Bewildered: 15: Ten Thousand Spoons

• Free Time: 031: Eleventh-Hour Creative Gremlins, 003: Liberate Your Life Force with Christine Arylo

• Rework: Scratch Your Own Itch

🔗 Resources Mentioned: Join the Free Time Book Launch Team, BFF with Jenny Blake, Byron Katie's TheWork.com (Look for the Judge Your Neighbor worksheet), the Knowing-Doing Gap

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