024 Kathryn McKinnon: Triple Your Time Today

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To help us sort through what time means to us and how we can better manage our use of time, we asked Kathryn McKinnon, Time Management Expert, and Author of Triple Your Time Today to join us.

As you’ll hear from her story, her life and relationship with time has evolved over time, and as she took charge of her life and time now focuses on Executive Development & Coaching for Success with Your Life, Career and Your Time!

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I think we take it for granted. Time is a state of mind.

The fact of the matter is with time there’s no future and no past. There’s only the present moment. If you live your life present moment to present moment to present moment, you realize you have a choice in how you spend your time. There is such a thing as time management and yes you can. You can really manage your time.

When you start to really live in the moment; it’s hard to do at first; but when you really focus in and live in the moment you realize that you have an abundance of choices about how you spend your time.

I’ve been an executive for 32 years and a coach for the past 20 years. I primarily help women executives, professionals and entrepreneurs and some open minded men learn how to choose more success with their life and their career and their time. I’ve founded businesses. I’m a busy mom. I have two active teenage boys, a husband of 23 years who travels a lot so I’m a single mom when he’s gone. He is really gone for weeks at a time. I’m also a paid professional singer on weekends and I volunteer. I’m the one responsible for keeping everything going. I want you to know, I don’t have a full time assistant. I don’t work 14 hour days. I keep weekends open for my family. I have a home office that I work from. I chose this career and I chose this topic and I chose this way of developing my career so that I could have a family. I think it’s important for people to know that.

How do you make all those choices? I think the answer is over the years I’ve developed a mind set as well as systems that really help me create more time for the things I need and want to accomplish.

I never saw the truck. In an instant this two ton flat bed truck ran through a stop sign and it violently crashed in to me.

After a break at the hospital I went back to work. After months of physical therapy and a year of visits to a chiropractor, I still had that back pain. I also had the stress at work. I didn’t know at the time that there was a connection between stress and physical pain.

At that point I kind of had an epiphany. As I began to really embrace the process of focusing my thoughts, I started to appreciate my time in a new way. I realized that all my attempts to be productive and successful had almost succeeded in helping me lose my life.

It was a real wake up call for me. Since then, which was many years ago, I’ve had a continual awakening to try to stay within my grounded personal energy while consistently moving towards my goals and getting things done. I made a decision to reclaim my personal power. I made a choice. I found my purpose. I embraced how I spend my time in a whole new way. Life opened up for me as a result of that with grace and certainty and it continues each and every day as I continue using these practices and these systems.

You ask why did I write the book. Well, a few years ago I was seeing a lot of success in the transformation my clients were having as a coach and I wanted to help more people. I began to shift my business on line. While looking for ways to build my business, I was told that giving away a free report was a great way to build a contact list. So I reviewed all my client issues and stories and started looking at what they all had in common.

Interestingly, I notice they all had difficulty managing their time in one way or another. Then I realize that managing time was something that I had become really good at; over time.

The first strategy that I think might be the most important in managing your time is develop the right mind set. That’s the foundation for everything that I do and teach. We all have the same amount of time every day but do you know how you spend your time? More importantly, do you know what you think about while you’re spending your time? If you’re not getting the results you want with your time, maybe it’s because you’re not focused on the right things. When you create the right mind set, you become really far more efficient with your time because you’re consciously aware of what you’re thinking about each moment. That helps you reach your goals…

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Contact Kathryn McKinnon

Website: kathryn-mckinnon.com

Twitter: @KathrynMcKinnon

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