Speaker 1: I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational moment for
Speaker 1: this week, and we are going to, funnily enough, take
Speaker 1: some time for you to prioritize time for yourself. It
Speaker 1: came to me while I was recently in Perth over
Speaker 1: the school holidays. Now our mad family all went over there,
Speaker 1: all six of us, so I wouldn't say it Sam
Speaker 1: having a little solo holiday.
Speaker 2: But what we did have.
Speaker 1: Over there was Snazz's incredible, beautiful family. But what that
Speaker 1: did was actually gave Snazz and I a little bit
Speaker 1: of time either together or even alone, where we could
Speaker 1: hear ourselves think for perhaps the first time in a
Speaker 1: long time. And it just made me, I guess, think
Speaker 1: about the power and the value and the importance of
Speaker 1: having that alone time. So I did a little bit
Speaker 1: of research into I guess what the benefits are in
Speaker 1: having some alone time, because I do I do know
Speaker 1: from speaking to my clients a lot of them are parents.
Speaker 1: They often don't think that they have that time available
Speaker 1: to them, or if they do provide it to themselves
Speaker 1: or create it for themselves, there's often an element of
Speaker 1: guilt there. So I did a little bit of digging
Speaker 1: and there was one great article. I did find a few,
Speaker 1: because there's one great article about the benefits of alone
Speaker 1: time and how it actually improves drastically productivity.
Speaker 2: It's exactly sort of as I thought.
Speaker 1: I know, when I have my alone time, then when
Speaker 1: I put the head down, I'm so much more productive
Speaker 1: because I feel like I've organized my thoughts. You know,
Speaker 1: I almost feel like the walk I gave myself for
Speaker 1: the little bit of reading time I gave myself for
Speaker 1: the whatever.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I sit in my sauna at home and just
Speaker 1: do some breathing exercises, whatever it might be.
Speaker 2: It's you know, it's fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about it spending two hours by yourself
Speaker 1: relaxing every single day. But when I do that, it's
Speaker 1: almost like I metaphorically tidy my desk, and my desk
Speaker 1: is my brain, if that's makes sense. And therefore, when
Speaker 1: I do sit down to do some work, I don't
Speaker 1: spend the first fifteen thirty forty five minutes fartassing around
Speaker 1: to try and get stuff organized before I actually put
Speaker 1: pen to paper or ideas down, because I've almost subconsciously
Speaker 1: or inadvertently done that when I've had that.
Speaker 2: Alone time earlier in the day, all the day before.
Speaker 1: So the key message here is we often feel like
Speaker 1: making time for ourselves. And I say making time rather
Speaker 1: than finding time, because I do think you have to
Speaker 1: make it, you have to actually be in charge of yourself.
Speaker 1: So I do think that making time for ourselves is
Speaker 1: often misconstrued as something that is going to reduce our productivity,
Speaker 1: because that's time we could have spent doing something else
Speaker 1: and we chose not to do it. We chose to
Speaker 1: be alone or find a quiet space or whatever it
Speaker 1: might be. And actually the research tells us it does
Speaker 1: the opposite. So I think the first thing that I'd
Speaker 1: love you to do or listening to me chat to
Speaker 1: you now is really think about that and really importantly
Speaker 1: accept that. You know, I speak to a lot of
Speaker 1: mums about you can't pour from an empty cup. You know,
Speaker 1: they're always trying to do things for other people, but
Speaker 1: they never fill up their own cup, and therefore they're
Speaker 1: always trying to pour from an empty cup, and as
Speaker 1: soon as they're not doing that, they have this overwhelming
Speaker 1: feeling of guilt that they should be doing something for
Speaker 1: someone else. So giving yourself some time, some alone time,
Speaker 1: some peace and quiet, some sanity, will actually help you
Speaker 1: on the other end.
Speaker 2: It doesn't detract, it adds.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the really important message that I
Speaker 1: want you to accept my listener task for you. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're realizing where I'm heading with this, but
Speaker 1: it's really important. I want you, over the next four
Speaker 1: weeks to map out when you're going to take some
Speaker 1: time for yourself, and I want you to be specific,
Speaker 1: what's the day, what's the time of day, and how
Speaker 1: long it's going to be for and I want you
Speaker 1: to program that in and I want you to stick
Speaker 1: to it, and I want you to find at.
Speaker 2: Least fifteen minutes five times a week.
Speaker 1: Now, if you want to go for more, if you
Speaker 1: want to go for thirty minutes seven days a week, great,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to be as realistic as possible. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make this as achievable for all of us
Speaker 1: as possible.
Speaker 2: And again, you can always lay you can always.
Speaker 1: Add to these things later, but as a starting point,
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes a day, at least five days a week,
Speaker 1: and you're going to map that out over the next month,
Speaker 1: over the next four weeks, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: set in there in stone and I want you to
Speaker 1: see this through. I'm going to check in with this
Speaker 1: in four weeks time to see how you've gone