Do you ever have those days where you feel like you felt busy or you felt like you were doing stuff all day

but you can't actually think of anything you accomplished and you definitely didn't get done

the stuff that you really really wanted to.

I feel like this is something we can all relate to and today we're talking about some real strategies to get more done and feel more accomplished but in way less time.

Hey Clutterbugs, welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast. Today we're talking about one of my favorite things to talk about, which is time management and motivation.

And I love talking about these two things because for a really long time these were two of my absolute hands-down biggest struggles.

Part of it, I'm sure, was ADHD, but part of it was I just don't like doing stuff I don't want to do.

You know what I mean?

So I really struggled to get motivated to do tasks that I thought of as boring or mundane or things that were really hard work,

which a lot of that stuff was housework.

So laundry and dishes and scrubbing and cleaning often got put off

because I just never felt like doing it. To be totally honest, I just didn't want to.

And that at the real crux of it is what's behind motivation.

You actually, when you're motivated to do something, it's because you actually want to do that thing.

And if you don't really want to do it, if you don't feel excited about it, if you're not like

pumped, like yes, this is going to be awesome. Faking motivation or forcing

yourself to do something when you're not motivated is brutal. It feels next to impossible. So we're going to talk about some real strategies

to get you excited and wanting to do the things that you don't really want to do.

Ways to trick yourself, trick your brain, and trick your body into feeling motivated.

But we're also going to talk about time management because this is a skill, really.

It's a critical skill that can help you get more done in less time because you're really doing the things that matter first.

Okay, so let's start with time management because what is time

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