The 2025 Time Management Challenge
Is time management a challenge in your day-to-day work?
So many CEOs, leaders, and business owners live and breathe by their calendars. If that describes you, it's time to make sure your calendar is protecting your time, energy, and creativity instead of creating more problems in your day.
With a few key tweaks, you can turn your calendar into one of your best time management tools.
The “Schedule Downtime” Challenge
Here's what you're going to do:
Go in and add a 5 minute-buffer before and a 15-minute buffer after every existing meeting on your calendar. If you already have back-to-back meetings scheduled, make a list of who the meetings are with.
Create a new rule to add in at least 5 minutes before and after every meeting (virtual or in-person) on your calendar moving forward. Communicate this to anyone responsible for managing your calendar.
Schedule 30 minutes of totally free time on your calendar at least once a week. Bonus points if you can fit in two or three of these blocks! Use this time to encourage and expand your creativity, however you choose.
Some ideas for using your downtime well:
- Journaling
- Drawing
- Brainstorming or making lists
- Creating a word cloud
- Reflecting on recent conversations or questions
Your time is a finite resource, and it's so easy to get caught up in the daily chaos while your time runs away from you.
Reclaim your time by leveraging your calendar and streamlining a system designed to give you more of your time back!
✅ Get your own (free!) Calendar Management Challenge Cheat Sheet to help you complete your email challenge and get back on track with an organized inbox.
Need help with time management in your business?
At Elevate, we love stepping in to help you optimize your calendar and make the most of your valuable time!
A 1:1 Operations Strategy Call is the perfect way to zero in on what's wrecking your calendar and figure out what action steps need to be followed to take back control of your time!
This call is our chance to collaboratively solve your calendar management issues while putting systems and checks in place to proactively keep these problems from happening again.
We can work through anything from how to stop double-booking yourself to how to delegate your calendar to a team member so you don't ever have to worry about it again.
Click here to get all the details and schedule your 60-minute 1:1 Operations Strategy Call!
