Making Peace with Time (low-tech, no cost)

January 24, 2024/Mary Cravets/1 Comment

I’ll admit it: I have a troubled relationship with time.

I’m always searching for the perfect way to schedule my calendar. The perfect scheduling tool. The perfect reminder system.

This year I made three simple changes that cost me nothing and make a big difference in how I feel every single day.

  1. For as long as I can remember, I have hung a one-year dry-erase laminated calendar on the wall that I face while sitting at my desk. Time was literally looming over me. I was facing off with it every single day. So I moved 2024’s calendar behind my office door and filled the space I face with the things that are most important to me: family, pets and inspiration.
  2. Another long-time practice that I changed is I stopped wearing my Apple watch. Even though I have all the notifications turned off, it was a distraction. I could check the weather, my exercise rings… so many ways to waste a little bit of time here and there. I’ve swapped out the techy nagging device for a watch my Dad gave me one Christmas. It’s sentimental and low tech. Doesn’t even have the date on it.
  3. With this last one, I may be veering into the neighborhood of TMI, but an idea from my fab time management coach Lisa Crilley Mallis of Impactive Strategies, I go to the downstairs bathroom instead of the one right next to my office. A mini-break from my day.

I’ll wrap up with this thought: when you have a busy life and business, making huge sweeping changes is hard. And then maintaining them? Almost impossible.So while these 3 changes might seem too small to actually make a different, the power behind them is that they are sustainable.

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Mary Cravets

Founder Mary Cravets started Simply Get Clients because she saw small business owners complicating growing their businesses. Or falling victim to the "build it and they will come" myth. So she developed the simple structure to cut through all the noise of social media, "experts", online funnels, advertising and more to focus on the central problem of business owners: getting more clients. And you know what? There is NOT a one-size-fits-all solution.

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  1. Rory says

    Hi Mary – Your comments and practices and insights are always worth hearing and reading for me. I’m trying to set up some new systems in my life too right now. Working on it. Thanks again for your referral to the smart CreativeLive person (name escaping me temporarily) – we are speaking soon. WIll let you know how it goes! Have a great weekend.