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3 High Impact Leader Published by Orange a division of The rethink Group, Inc Charlotte Lane, Suite 300 Cumming, GA U.S.A. The Orange logo is a registered trademark of The rethink Group, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form without written permission from the publisher. Other Orange products are available online and direct from the publisher. Visit our website at for more resources like these. ISBN: Carey Nieuwhof. Carey Nieuwhof Communications Ltd. The rethink Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America First Edition /23/2016

4 SESSION 2 THREE LEADERSHIP ASSETS Stop saying you don t have time for something. Start thinking you didn t make time for it.

5 SESSION SUMMARY Congratulations! You made it to the second session! Now, this might not seem like a big deal to you, but trust me, it is. Did you know that more than 90% of people who start an online course never actually finish it? The fact that you ve made it even to this week tells me that s not going to be you. And believe me when I say that the investment you put in here is worth it. It will help you operate out of your passions and consistently produce your best results. And my guess is that the three hours you put into this course will get you three hours per week back. In a year, that s 150 hours back. For some of you, completing this course might get you as much as three hours a day back, which is... well, a lot of time. So, are you thinking of this as an investment that WILL yield rewards? Good. Now let s dig in. Today we re going to talk about the three primary things you re dealing with in your life and leadership. Every leader has three primary resources. If you think about it, these are the three primary currencies you deal with every day: 1. Time 2. Energy 3. Priorities Most leaders only manage their time and try to juggle a few priorities, which is why most are continuously frustrated. Almost nobody thinks about that second step; how to manage your energy. What s more, even fewer leaders understand how managing all three can lead to incredible productivity and deeper accomplishments in all areas of life. Focusing on time management alone can only get you so far. Here s why: everyone gets the same amount of time every day. It doesn t matter if you re the President of the United States, the president of a Fortune 500 company, or the president of a fledgling business, you only get 24 hours in a day. Whenever you re handed a complicated task, or when your life undergoes a major change, nobody gives you an extra five 13

6 hours in the day to handle it. You have to manage everything that comes your way in those same 24 hours. The challenge is that the opportunities available to a capable leader always exceed the available time. Now you might be in a situation where this isn t necessarily true for you right row. Maybe you re just starting a job, or you re in a situation where you feel underchallenged. I get that. But if you re a capable leader, trust me that this will change. When I first started in ministry, it was a much quieter and slower pace than the world of law from which I d come. I didn t have a demanding 40-hour work week when I started, and I remember thinking, How am I going to fill all this time? It didn t take long for me to discover that the time I had didn t feel like enough. As a result, in those early days, my work weeks became 50, 60, sometimes 80 hours. My brief window of boredom disappeared fast. So will yours. Okay, let me guess it s already long gone. What s worse, as a young leader, I didn t know how to manage my time. I got better at it over time, but I eventually realized that time management alone was never going to cut it. In fact, eventually, managing time becomes draining, not energizing. What I was doing wasn t working and what most people do to manage time doesn t work long term. I realized that I desperately needed a new strategy to keep going. So what happened? Well, the insights in this course is what happened. I m sharing all my secrets from two decades of learning, growth, and constant adjustment with you. That s what follows. So let s start with one insight on time management to get us rolling. One powerful switch you can make today is to banish a phrase we ve all said far too often. The phrase is this: I don t have the time. I realized I was saying I don t have the time far too often, to everything from work projects, to social engagements, to exercise, and sometimes even time with God. Instead of saying, I don t have the time, I started saying, I m not going to make the time. Do you hear the difference? One 14

7 makes you sound like a victim. The other admits that you re making a choice. You re choosing to not meet. You re choosing to not work out. You re choosing to not go home on time and have dinner with your family. It s far more powerful than you think. A word of caution. Don t say I m not going to make the time for that out loud (that s a quick way to lose a few friends!). Instead, think this through in your head when you re asked to give some of your time. Rather than telling yourself you don t have time, recognize that you re not going to make the time. This will force you out of making excuses and help you begin to prioritize what is most important for your time and energy. leverage time effectively as a leader, but effective leaders also leverage energy. Here s a formula that describes the potential of managing both time and energy in life and leadership: Managing energy + managing time = clear and realized priorities. Managing both your time and your energy will help you realize your most critical priorities (remember all those things you wished you had more time for in Exercise 1? Those things). That s how you re going to get ahead. RETHINK THIS: Stop saying you don t have time for something. Start thinking you didn t make time for it. If you take it seriously, I think this simple change will radically alter how you think about time. We ll come back to managing your time later, but now we re going to move into rare territory. Few leaders ever get here. I want to introduce you to what might be a fresh concept: energy management. Great leaders stop only managing time; they start managing energy. Why? Well, time is fixed, but energy is flexible. You can 15

8 EXERCISE 2 IN THE LEFT COLUMN: Revisit yesterday s list of things you wished you had more time for. Finalize that list in priority order. IN THE RIGHT COLUMN: For each priority, write down how much time each week you d like to devote to it in hours. PRIORITIES priority 1: TIME priority 2: priority 3: priority 4: priority 5: priority 6: priority 7: priority 8: priority 9: priority 10: 16

2016 Carey Nieuwhof. Carey Nieuwhof Communications Ltd. The rethink Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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