Hello - I’m Ryan G, and I host Excitement Sessions LIVE most Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in the 3p PT hour on my LinkedIn. I invite you to join me!
I hope this is reaching you as you’re finishing another day at your job.
The goal of Excitement Sessions is to help people go after that professional thing they can’t stop thinking about. Often times, when you’re thinking about it the most is right when your current professional day comes to an end.
I imagine you got done doing something that isn’t that thing you actually want to do…
I reference stats like this all the time — 33% of the world's employees say they are thriving in their lives overall. There is a good chance you’re one of the 67% (or more) who don’t finish their professional day doing something they truly want to do.
… and you’re likely finding it hard to make time to start working on the thing you actually want to do.
Because it is hard. It is hard to make a pivot to doing something you actually want to do while there are so many other things going on.
What is the worst is that if you can’t make time to work on what you actually want, you’re going to continue doing what you don’t want to do.
It’s a vicious cycle.
If the above sounds like you, perhaps we should talk!
How I time block
I use a spreadsheet to allocate my time in 30-minute buckets for the categories I need to achieve: Health, Build (my projects), Freelance (contracts for sports work), Open (contracts for other work), Personal (time for me), Family (time for me with my family), Sleep
I revise this calendar 3-4 times per year, usually around the football and basketball seasons and the school year, because I broadcast those sports and have children (fall - football; winter - basketball; spring and summer)
Once I like the allocations (the spreadsheet totals the hours I’m committing to each), I translate those over to my Google Calendar
I then accept that time is finite — I cannot create more time, and therefore, cannot put categories on top of one another
So with that acceptance, when something “comes up” — a meeting with a co-worker or boss; donuts with my son; drinks with a friend — I swap times on my Google Calendar so that I don’t delete the time I’ve committed to
I re-allocate when things aren’t working well
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My plan for this Substack is to take something that I think about during Excitement Sessions LIVE or throughout my day and share it with you so that you can feel reassurance, hope and support and can make your thing a reality.
What’s something that you can’t stop thinking about? What’s keeping you from making it happen?
