Time management is not making you feel overwhelmed and stressed – it’s your lack of focus
Many of my coaching clients come to me thinking time is their biggest problem. But once we start peeling back the layers, the problem is rarely about time – it’s about focus and how their attention is constantly pulled in a thousand directions.
I see people fall into this trap over and over again: people stuck in cycles of reactivity, constantly busy but not necessarily finishing their days or their weeks feeling like they have achieved anything significant.
Some not-so-difficult strategies to help address this:
✅ Protect your first 30 minutes: Avoid diving into email or news feeds to protect your “cognitive bandwidth”
✅ Switch off unnecessary notifications: Every ping, ding and task switch costs more time and energy than you think.
✅ Designate scan times: Don’t let your day be hijacked by “just checking.”
✅ Use one tab at a time: Your brain really cannot multi-task well – simplify your screen to sharpen your thinking.
✅ Block deep work: Treat focus time like meetings – non‑negotiable and essential. And if you don’t treat your meetings like this, you should do!
If you are are feel overwhelmed and exhausted, adopting even one change into how you work, could have a significantly positive impact. Your focus and attention is a valuable resource. Protect it.