The Bright Method Podcast: Realistic Time Management and Productivity for Working Women & Working Moms

Most of us equate being organized with being good at time management. Sorted inbox, perfect to-do list, color-coded calendar – that must mean you’re close to cracking it. But organization and time management are not the same skill, and the gap between them might be exactly what’s keeping you stuck. So if you’re organized and still chronically overwhelmed, I’d start here. Short one today, but it packs a punch.Resources mentioned in this episode:Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolanLinks you might enjoy:✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you’re ready for a full time management system that’s realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It’s helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

There's this quiet assumption that at some point, a smart, accomplished adult should just have this whole time management thing figured out. So if you've ever looked at your workload and thought, "I should be better at managing this by now," I want to push back on that. Time management is a skill set, not a character trait, and most of us are running on a version we learned in middle school that was never upgraded for the life we're managing now. Let's dig in.Resources mentioned in this episode:"Think Less, Think Better" – New York Times opinion piece, 2016Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolanLinks you might enjoy:✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Planning tends to get filed under productivity and control – a type-A thing, an efficiency thing, something you do to squeeze more out of your day. And there's some truth to that. But the deeper reason behind why I plan has nothing to do with control and everything to do with taking care of myself. If that sounds corny, I get it. I also think it'll make a lot more sense by the end of this one. Let's talk about it.Resources mentioned in this episode:Enrollment for the October and November start dates for the 10-week Bright Method program is open: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolanLinks you might enjoy:✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm. •📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Sometimes we have a goal that's worth pushing hard for. Most of what I talk about here is doing less – getting your workload in line with your capacity so life actually feels manageable, but there are times when the goals we want for ourselves mean deliberately making our lives harder for a while. Let's discuss four criteria to think through before committing to a push season.Resources mentioned in this episode:Episode 19 (how to prep for a busy season)Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolanLinks you might enjoy:✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

Oftentimes, planning gets categorized as less valuable than the work we should be doing. So if you've been skipping your planning session because you don't think you can bill for it, or if you don't bill for your time but find your planning session keeps getting quietly dismissed, I want to push back. Let's discuss the three reasons protecting time to plan is worth it, no matter how your hours are tracked.Resources mentioned in this episode:Episode 8 (what the Clean Slate planning session is)Episode 73 (Kelly's time management journey)Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/the-bright-method-time-management-course-with-kelly-nolanLinks you might enjoy:✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

If you have an ever-different schedule due to your work schedule, a partner's, or something else, the Bright Method may sound like it wouldn't work for you (after all, I talk a lot about calendaring repetitive things), but it SHINES for people like us. Let's dig into it, talk about things to calendar when you get, e.g., a shift schedule, and more.Resources mentioned in this episode:Join the 10-week Bright Method program here: kellynolan.com/brightLinks you might enjoy:✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.

A client said it like it was just a fact: if she pushed back on new work, those clients would take their business elsewhere and never come back. Kelly heard it and recognized the fear behind it - she'd also spent years operating from that same exact assumption.This episode is about what actually happens when you push back. Kelly makes the case that it's one of the best ways to find out who you're working with, whether they're a fit for the life you're building, and whether it's worth staying. She shares her own story from her attorney days, a client who stepped off a board after one pushback conversation, and another who got promoted five months after finally having the capacity conversation her boss didn't know was needed. If your plate is overflowing and you keep absorbing anyway, this one's worth a listen.Resources mentioned in this episode:Join the waitlist for the 10-week Bright Method program here: https://kellynolan.com/bright-method-waitlistLinks you might enjoy:✨ The full Bright Method™️ program: If you're ready for a full time management system that's realistic, sustainable, and dare I say… fun, check out the Bright Method program. It's helped hundreds of professional women take back control of their time – and their peace of mind.🌿 Free 3-Day Time Management Program: Get three short, practical video lessons packed with realistic strategies to help you manage your personal and professional life with more clarity and calm.📱 Follow me on Instagram: Get bite-sized, real-life time management tips for working women – like reminders to set mail holds before travel, anonymous day-in-the-life calendars from other professional women, and behind-the-scenes looks at how I manage my own time.