it's much, much easier to have time for what matters.
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:19 am
And you also have to clearly define your vision and, new keyword, your priorities. It’s also super important to define your priorities. For me… It will certainly, probably be different for you. I know that my priorities are my personal development, my family and Authentic French. These are three very, very clear priorities. I know very well that these are my priorities.
And it helps me to say no when I am contacted for example to promote a project that is not that of Français Authentique, it helps me to say no. Because of course I want to say yes, I want to say yes, but I have to say no. Sometimes I have to say no to my friends who want to see me, sometimes I have to say no to people who contact me, who would like me to help them, but I can't, because if I helped everyone individually, well I wouldn't have any more time for myself.
I hear shots, so I conclude that there may be hunting in the fields, so I'm going to stay on the side of the paths anyway, I'm going to try not to expose myself too much. That's always the problem, eh. You've heard me often in the podcast Marchez avec Johan, you've heard me complain about hunting, while I'm walking quietly on the paths, but that's another subject.
What I was saying is that you have to know how to say no. And saying no… well, saying yes to something is saying no to something else. For example, saying yes to an invitation to a south africa whatsapp number data podcast is saying no to a reading or no to an hour spent with my children, you get the idea. Saying yes to something is saying no to something else, but in an indirect and involuntary and unchosen way.
And the last key word is to simplify your life, because if you have a simple life,
So you see the key words that I was able to address, there was "protect your time", there was the word "distraction", we protect ourselves from distractions, we had the word "interruption", we protect ourselves from interruptions, we had "say no", super important, and we had the word... 'well the two words "priorities", you have to know them, know what your priorities are, and of course the word "simplify", because by simplifying your life, you simply manage to have more time for the things that matter. So the idea is really to be flexible, to readjust your priorities when necessary but to tell yourself that you always have time.
I would like to share with you a poignant example, at least it is for me, regarding… and that's what gave me the idea for this podcast, we always have time, to be honest with you.
For a long time, I didn't call my parents enough. I called them every month, sometimes maybe a little more, a little less often. So I didn't check in often enough, in my opinion. And I said to myself: "Well, that's because I don't have time, I don't have time to call them more." And I learned at one point that my father was sick. And when I got that information, I started calling him every day.
So you see, I went from calling him about every month, every month and a half, to calling him every day. Which clearly shows that I had the time before, before he got sick, I had the time to call him more. It's just that at that point, subconsciously, I had decided that it wasn't a priority and I regretted it a lot obviously.
And that's why I really, really want to invite you to reprioritize maybe more often. I should have reprioritized more often because of course my parents are my priorities and I should have taken the time to call more often. And I proved to myself, when I learned about his illness, that it was really possible that I had the time to call him more often because I called him every day.
And it helps me to say no when I am contacted for example to promote a project that is not that of Français Authentique, it helps me to say no. Because of course I want to say yes, I want to say yes, but I have to say no. Sometimes I have to say no to my friends who want to see me, sometimes I have to say no to people who contact me, who would like me to help them, but I can't, because if I helped everyone individually, well I wouldn't have any more time for myself.
I hear shots, so I conclude that there may be hunting in the fields, so I'm going to stay on the side of the paths anyway, I'm going to try not to expose myself too much. That's always the problem, eh. You've heard me often in the podcast Marchez avec Johan, you've heard me complain about hunting, while I'm walking quietly on the paths, but that's another subject.
What I was saying is that you have to know how to say no. And saying no… well, saying yes to something is saying no to something else. For example, saying yes to an invitation to a south africa whatsapp number data podcast is saying no to a reading or no to an hour spent with my children, you get the idea. Saying yes to something is saying no to something else, but in an indirect and involuntary and unchosen way.
And the last key word is to simplify your life, because if you have a simple life,
So you see the key words that I was able to address, there was "protect your time", there was the word "distraction", we protect ourselves from distractions, we had the word "interruption", we protect ourselves from interruptions, we had "say no", super important, and we had the word... 'well the two words "priorities", you have to know them, know what your priorities are, and of course the word "simplify", because by simplifying your life, you simply manage to have more time for the things that matter. So the idea is really to be flexible, to readjust your priorities when necessary but to tell yourself that you always have time.
I would like to share with you a poignant example, at least it is for me, regarding… and that's what gave me the idea for this podcast, we always have time, to be honest with you.
For a long time, I didn't call my parents enough. I called them every month, sometimes maybe a little more, a little less often. So I didn't check in often enough, in my opinion. And I said to myself: "Well, that's because I don't have time, I don't have time to call them more." And I learned at one point that my father was sick. And when I got that information, I started calling him every day.
So you see, I went from calling him about every month, every month and a half, to calling him every day. Which clearly shows that I had the time before, before he got sick, I had the time to call him more. It's just that at that point, subconsciously, I had decided that it wasn't a priority and I regretted it a lot obviously.
And that's why I really, really want to invite you to reprioritize maybe more often. I should have reprioritized more often because of course my parents are my priorities and I should have taken the time to call more often. And I proved to myself, when I learned about his illness, that it was really possible that I had the time to call him more often because I called him every day.