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How to use batching and sprints to create more time in your week

How to use batching and sprints to create more time in your week

FromThe Business of Psychology


How to use batching and sprints to create more time in your week

FromThe Business of Psychology

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38 minutes
Released:
Nov 4, 2022
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Podcast episode

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How to use batching and sprints to create more time in your weekLinks for this episode: 
Instagram: 
https://www.instagram.com/rosiegilderthorp/ (@RosieGilderthorp)
https://www.instagram.com/thepregnancypsychologist/ (@ThePregnancyPsychologist)
Recommended books:
https://amzn.eu/d/8E310yX (The Lean Startup by Eric Ries) 
https://amzn.eu/d/1OBj7hC (Sprint by Jake Knapp)
Full show notes for this episode are available athttps://psychologybusinessschool.com/the-business-of-psychology/ ( The Business of Psychology)
Today, I wanted to talk to you about two methods of productivity that I find really helpful in running my practice. The reason I've decided to share this now is that a lot of people have been asking me how on earth I'm managing with my second Instagram account! For anybody that hasn't been following my journey with it on social media, I have set up a new account called https://www.instagram.com/thepregnancypsychologist/ (@ThePregnancyPsychologist) which is all about pushing forward my work with severe pregnancy sickness and the mental health impact of that. I've been meaning to do this for years, I've wanted to do this for a really long time, but I haven't had the headspace. It isn't something that I'm particularly using to promote my private practice (although if I do get clients from it, that would be brilliant because I love working one on one with people who are struggling in this in this part of pregnancy) but actually, for me, it's much more of what I would term an impact project. It's something that I don't really mind if I don't get paid for it because I'm generating income in the other parts of my work with Psychology Business School, with my private clients, with my coaching clients; those are the activities that generate the profit that I then use to pay myself to do some stuff for free. And that includes working with charities that are focused on this area, it includes putting social media content out into the world, and hopefully soon, launching my new podcast, which is actually meant to be an intervention; it's not a marketing podcast, it's not out there as a funnel, it's there to directly help people in their earbuds, who are struggling with severe pregnancy sickness. I've been working on it for a while - because it's a bit different to a normal podcast, I'm not going to hit go until I've got the entire intervention recorded, so it's unlikely to launch until January, but I'm using this Instagram account to provide people with direct support now, because it's something I can do instantly, I can share meditation tips, I can share the framework of the intervention via social media and hopefully start making a difference to people straightaway. So that's why I've decided to do it now because I've got a little bit of profit that I can put into that. But of course, I'm still only working two and a half days really, because I work two full length days, and then one school length day, and I always say to my coaching clients and my students in Psychology Business School, if you're working school hours, that is not a full day, you can't expect yourself to achieve what other people do in nine to five when you're working 9:30 until 2:30, that's impossible. So structuring my expectations, I've only really got two and a half days to play with in my work and I'm doing a lot in that time. But it is possible with organisation, and not just organisation, it's also about having gotten your other projects to the point where you can take something new on, because you've got the systems in place that allow certain things to run with minimal input from you. 
So that's the first thing to say, if you're thinking about adding something new into your practice, the first thing you need to do is focus on your systems and processes with everything else.
I've spoken on this podcast before about my work with my assistant, Anna, who deals with all of my admin, my scheduling my invoicing, responding to new...
Released:
Nov 4, 2022
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