Stop Killing Your Time ⏰ in 2025! | The Black Coffee Club Live

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New day, it's a new If I had a million tongues, I couldn't tell it all, man, I could not tell it all if I had a million tongues. Thank you all so much, really truly genuinely appreciate you. Man. I am indeed Junior the Truth, and this is indeed your Black Coffee Club Live. Man. It feels so good. You feel me feel so good. We haven't we haven't done one. We hadn't gotten one in this week, man, And I didn't get to do my Monday one like I usually do. So time has permitted me to be able to get it done today, man. So we're in here. Thank you all so much once again for taking the tiny tuny and really truly genuinely appreciate it. I am indeed your host, Junior the Truth. You could follow me everywhere via social media. I could be found with the handle Junior of the Truth. That's j U n I O R t H G t r U t H and it's over all your social media platforms, each and every one. But if you really looking for me, you can catch me over on the Simple Truth Network www dot the Simpletruth dot network. It is our very own Superinformation Exchange. So it's there. Come on over, y'all, Come on over, man, where you being, freeing, where you being. But salute to you all. Thank you to everybody that's tuning in in real time, really truly genuinely appreciate you. Salute to everybody that's catching the show and syndication or the podcast. Thank you all so much as well. Man, We really truly genuinely appreciate you. So, Man, today we're gonna tackle something I'm pretty sure we all been struggling with in twenty twenty five. I can tell you know. We're halfway through the second month of the year twenty twenty five, and man, it's something we all been struggling with, I know. And if you're if you're ready to stop killing your time and start living productively, then this is it. This is it, like like Jack, like, this is it. Today I'm going to help I'm going to reveal and I'm helping myself by revealing the five biggest time wasters that are robbing us of our potential. And I'll share my practical strategies for working on these. Man, I have to always come back and keep revisiting these, and I think that I've been catching myself, and so as of twenty twenty five, or as of this point in twenty twenty five, had to kind of take an assessment and look at what have I been doing with my time? And how am I wasting my time? Man? And so I got my five biggest time wasters that I'm gonna share with you all, and I'm gonna share you the strategies that I've come up with on how to overcome them. So grab you coffee today. I'm off of I don't even man, I forgot what kind of coffee this is. It's a CA cup, it's carried coffee. It's a CA cup, It's it is a cinnamon something, it's a it's a some sort of blend. It's a medium brew, but it's some sort of Bleand I'm sorry. I'll do better. I'll do better. But grab your coffee and get ready to take control today. Salute to my brother whatever man, what's up with you? Salute to DP rocking the building man. Really truly genuinely appreciate y'all. But y'all know that's what we're gonna do. And before we do what we do, I gotta do what I do. So let's get to it one. So I'm hustled harder than the moment. I'm a feast on these streets. Got a revolver I told for these niggas trying to take me off the block where I'm poison. Bailey's out the bottle. Man, There you have it. I tell y'all, every trip, Man, I feel like I just man, I feel ultra explosive man. Every time. Man, I have a real live implosion every time I hear that. Man. But salute to you all, Thank you all so much. Man. Let's go ahead on and get to it. Man, I only got a couple of minutes before I need to slide on and get on with the day. For those of y'all who do know, Man, the Black Coffee Club Live. We are a space for self mastery, personal development, and real talk on how to basically improve man or master ourselves. Every day we have in depth productivity slash self development slash cultural conversations and we're here. You know what I mean. We are here today We're gonna dive into a topic that's especially critical as we navigate twenty twenty five. You know what I mean. For me, it's all about time management, man, it's all about time management. I feel like time is the biggest asset that we have. It's the biggest, most precious, most important asset that we have, and so it's imperative that we pay attention and we lock into how it is that we actually are spending our time. Salute to my sister Shequila feels top of the day till you love one. And Happy Valentine's Day to everybody. I keep I haven't said any said that to anybody yet, my fault y'all. Happy Valentine's Day for those of you, all the for the women folk, you know what I mean? Me and folk, y'all gotta get y'alls from somewheres else. Man, this ain't you know. I got number of love in my heart for y'all. But this ain't that. This ain't that. But I've noticed that no matter how busy we are, we often end up killing our time and not producing. Like there's a huge difference between being busy and being productive, and I think that we lose sight of that, you know what I mean, Like, we really truly lose sight of the fact that there is a difference between being busy and being productive. And busy, though it may look productive to some people. Busy or busyness does not always equal productivity, and productivity does not always equal busyness. You know what I mean. Some of the most productive people don't appear to be busy at all because they've mastered the way to produce and they've mastered efficiency. But over this next little this little bit of time that we're gonna be kicking it, you know what I mean, I'm gonna break down five key the five key things that I and and this is me. I'm not projecting to you all. This is the five things that that that that that I need to stop wasting my time on. And these insights are backed by my own personal experience, my own research can I And I promise you man, if you just listen to me and you can relate, then you're gonna be able to reclaim your day. Let me answer this live on air. Hey, what's up with it? Bro? Yeah? I'm in a black coffee club live you good? It's all good? All right? I got you. I hit you when I get done. Yeah, yeah, all right. That was the guy you feel me for the That was the guy I figured, uh him calling me. I figured it was something he actually needed or something that needed to be addressed or apologies, and I put him on the spot and put him live on air. So all right, let's get to it. My five, My five key time wasters that I've been spending a lot of time on. One of them. This is gonna sound crazy, Shequila Lucini, what's up with your homie? Old school? Instantly I see in the building, what's happening. This is gonna sound crazy, This is gonna sound crazy, This is gonna sound absolutely ridiculous. Right, But the first one is multitasking. I waste so much time on multitasking is ridiculous. I'm talking about it. I'm talking about since the beginning of twenty twenty five, so from January halfway through February, I'm realizing that multitasking for me is nah. Man, that's a big, big, big, big time waster. We all think that we're being efficient when we juggle multiple tasks, but the research really shows that multitasking actually reduces our efficiency. When you switch between tasks, you lose valuable focus. One of the most critical things that you can give to a task is your focus. Like, think about that. One of the most critical and important things that you can give to Any task that you take on is focus you feel me, so let me help you or I'm gonna help myself like individual like individually view it. Right, So let's say that somebody's performing a task for you, for the for the sisters. Let's say you go to get your you go to get a pedicure, right, and the person giving you the petty has taken on the the task of giving you a pedicure. Right. What happens if the person who's given you this service is not focused on you and focused on the actual service you feel me? Like, imagine sitting there getting a petty and a person think about how you feel because I didn't, I didn't been around you know that, and I and I didn't seen sisters and I ain't I didn't actually get pedicures, uh, with with people before, with sisters before and whatnot? Right, And imagine, I know how y'all get like if a person is not focused on you doing that moment. So they get up and they're trying to eat lunch, or they get up and they're trying that's disgusting, but it up, or they're focusing on multiple clients, or they get up and they're checking their phone or checking their email, or the person who's giving you the pedicure, they also have to work the front desk and they got to ring people out and so on and so forth. And you sit there and the water gets cold and you get frustrated, and so on and so forth. Like one of the most critical things that you can give a task is your focused And if you're not focused on a task, then you're going to definitely lose efficiency. But that's just incredible, I mean, and when you individualize it, or excuse me, when I individualize it, and I think about it from that standpoint, I think about times when I've spent just simple stuff like I'm taking this time to meet with you, right, So if I've taken time out my day to meet with you and we're meeting or we're having a discussion, happy hour, conversations with Temka, what's up with it? Meet me, and you're not focused on the conversation that we're having, like it's a rap. That's probably the last time you're gonna you're gonna get a conversation with me, you feel me. Or you're taking time to spend time with this valentine that you're spending time with someone special, right and you're sitting there and all they're doing is on their phone, scrolling through social media or whatever. Like you're gonna know, one of the most important things that you can give any task is a focus. Is your focus. So number one one of my very first key time wasted up twenty twenty five up to this point in my life is multitasking. I'm losing efficiency when I try to multitask. So what do I need to do instead? Embrace single tasking, one thing at a time. Use techniques like the Pomadour method. I share it with y'all. I got my Pommadora clock my time, or rather, I have not started using it. I'm not gonna lie. I'm very I'm very ingrained my ways, so I haven't used it for a very specific reason and for full transparency. I need to clean my office up. I need to clean my office up and I need to and I have not opened the clock yet, the timer yet because I need to clean my office up. I need to clean my space, I need to cleanse the area, and I need to start renew And that's one of the things that I'm really trying to get done, especially before my birthday, right, that's the truth. I've also watched this to Miika. I actually have purchased a brand new mac like, I have a brand new MacBook Pro that I need to use. You know what I'm saying. My old mac Book is shot. I refuse to open it. This is me being transparent with y'all. I refuse to open it because I need to. I'm not opening it before I clean my before I clean my office, like, I'm not opening it. That's my reward for me getting my office clean. But guess what I've been doing. I've been multitasking. I've been trying to get this done, trying to get that done, trying to get this done, and then trying to clean up my office the other time that I have and I have not spent my focus. And if I literally focus, I need about probably I need probably about two days. If I can just focus for just two solid days, I can get my office clean. I got a brand new printer that we've put that I've put in. We got a a the MacBook. I got my pome Adora timer bike. So but this is me being this is me sharing with you. I have not taken the time to sit down and spend that concentrated, focused effort on cleaning my office. And I'm not opening nothing else until I clean my office. But focus on one task at a time to really dive deep and get more done. Like, if you focus on one task at a time, you can dive deep and you can get it done when you have multiple tasks that you know, let's spend a little bit of time on this. Let'll spend a little bit of time on that, and spend it no if you could literally single task it. Do one thing at a time, get this complete, boom onto the next one. Single task focus, get it complete, boom onto the next one, and you will really really truly maximize your efficiency and your productivity. And like I said, that's one of the things that I'm literally working on from here for I've been multitasking all the time, and I finally realized how much I was sacrificing for you know, quality, how much I was sacrificing in quality and productivity. Now I'm going to keep my focus laser sharp, boxing and barbecue. What's up with your hommy? Now I'm focusing laser sharp one task at a time. I'm zeroing in zoom. Excuse me, getting as possibly as thorough as I possibly can on those singular tasks, and I'm working. That's I'm hoping. I'm hoping y'all understand what I'm saying. Number two. So number one was multitasking. Number two is constant email checking. And I'm not just gonna say email. I'm a spread it out to messaging. So constant messaging, check, message checking, constant constantly checking your emails. If you're checking your inbox every few minutes, you not alone, like it's not, but each but each interruption can take over twenty three minutes to refocus. That's what my research said. Each interruption can take up to twenty three or take over twenty three minutes to refocus. So when if you're working on that thing, Tamika, and then you start checking your email, and then when you get into your email, you go down that pipeline of picking up something else. I need to do this, I need to do that. I gotta check this box, gotta check that box, or whatever the case may be. Then when you get back to that thing, now you gotta use the restaurant. Now you gotta go and get something. You gotta go take a nibble of your lunch. You got somebody that's gonna call you with a conversation. It can take over twenty three minutes for you to refocus. And you think about in the grand scam of a work day, right, you think about how much time twenty three minutes is. Twenty three minutes is domn near. That's domn near a half hour. And if you're dedicating think about this. If you're dedicating eight hours to work, so you have a half hour, which is essentially and this is assuming you don't take a lunch, you've spent literally one sixteenth of your day on one break of concentration. Now, I just said that it happens multiple times, you feel me, and each time that happens, it can take over twenty three minutes to refocus. So when you think about it, think about these days where at the end of the day you like, damn, I didn't get done. I was here all day, sat in the office all day, and I didn't get nothing done. Well, you had ten times where you broke to check an email, respond to email, and then you took twenty three minutes to refocus. You only have six like I said, you only have If you think about those half hours, you only have sixteen of those, you feel me, And you didn't spend You spent ten of them right, trying to refocus from a distraction. Yeah, constant message checking, constant message checking, emails DMS. A lot of us, you know, we work on our phones, y'all out of pocket too. A lot of y'all work foot do a lot of work on your phones. And the company doesn't pay your cell phone bill, y'all and got sold on that, y'alln't boughty into that bull. But y'all checking text messages, responding to text, taking calls, all of that stuff. Man, So what do you need to do instead to help with the constant message checking? Set specific times to check your messages? You feel me? So within your day schedule message checks schedule, I would, I'm gonna start scheduling three of them. I'm gonna do I'm only gonna do three of them. I'm gonna do one. I'm gonna do one at the beginning of the day, I'm gonna do one at lunchtime and the lunchtime hours, and then I'm gonna do one toward the end of my work day. And that's my office as far as my office time is concerned, But schedule, just schedule them. It don't even have to be three. It might only be one for you. Just do one at the beginning of the day and then that's that. Or it might be two. Do one at the beginning and then want at the end and then prioritize your days around those. But you need to set specific times to check messages, like the start and the end of your work day. All right, Meet Meek said, whatever man said, that's a lot of time to refocus. It is, bro it is Meet Meek says, salute to a dirt gag I've seen in the building. What's up with a boss Meek says. Tamika says, yup. I agree. Takes forever to refocus, and you really stop because the focus does not come back. Nah, you get stuck because you'd be like damn, I working on and depending on you know who you are and how you work and how you operate. Like for me, I have a I have a five ring circus in my head. Me so I'm I can't go back and refocus because now I'm thinking about, oh, I need to get such and such off Amazon. As matter of fact, I need to check on that delivery was that delivered? You feel me, Oh, I had to I gotta process that order. Whatever. Man just ordered something from the simple truth shop, man from the truth shop. Let me go make sure his stuff was delivered. You feel me, Oh, I got a process like it's it's a man. I'm telling you it's a mess. It's a mess. Boss says fact truth. I just told my supervisor don't call my personal line hit me on the job phone only. That's a fact. If they hit your part, they shouldn't have your personal number, bro, ain't no way, no way, you don't call it. If you called it, you only called his phone. If you put if you got something on the bill. Yeah yea yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Ab says right, I completely derailed thinking about I'll get completely derailed thinking about some bs. That's a fact, bro, Yeah that's a fact. So all right, so we said, okay, set specific times to check your messages emails included. Don't like you can't think about that, like how you just get emails all day and you're expected to get emails emails Like that's not productive. That's not productive. Neither are meetings. But that's a whole different conversation. Turn off your email notifications to maintain your concentration. So turn off your notifications, all those direct messages, emails, turn them off. You can just you can on it. You can just silence your phone. Simply silence your phone. You get simple. It's simple. Just silence your phone because the majority of them come from your phone. If you have it on your computer and you have to pop up on your computers, you can silence your computers. You can silence those, but turn off those notifications and maintain your concentration. Imagine how much more you could accomplish if you weren't constantly distracted by incoming messages and calls and whatnot. All right, number three, Now I'm telling you man, I'm literally man, I was literally just talking to my people, like like when you're sitting there and you talking, and then like, because I'm bad about my smart watch, right, So I'll be sitting here and then my watch will vibrate and light up. And the minute it vibrates and light up, what do I do? Boom? And then I'm touching it boom, And then from there I'm breaking whatever it is that I'm doing right now. I didn't totally broke that moment, even if I could be having a conversation with somebody, I didn't totally broke that moment. And then if I'm by myself now I'm about to go off and pick up something else. So it goes from here to some me talking here to hear boom. Next thing you know, Now I got my phone and I'm trying to open up and you see what I'm saying like it's it's very very easy. All right, So that was number three. All right, this is I told y'all, unnecessary meetings, unnecessary meetings. That's the third thing on my list. Whatever man unnet sincesory meetings the app. Did you know the average employee spends over thirty hours a month in meetings that are not productive. That number is low. It's probably double that. I bet. I'm willing to bet, especially those of you are who are in leadership capacities or administrative capacities. I guarantee you that your number is more like forty five to sixty hours of meetings that are not productive, no productive meetings. You feel me you are having non productive meetings, period. So what do you do instead? Especially for my leaders, people who are leaders in leadership administrative capacities, people who have staff that are under you. Be selective about which meetings you attend. I need to clip this, I need to clip this part. Be specific about what meetings you attend. Excuse me selective if everybody you don't need to be at every meeting. Like I told you, there's a difference between busy and productive. There's a difference. You got busy and you have productive. Be selective of the meetings that you attend for my entrepreneurs, be be be selective of the conversations that you have. People say, hey, man, I need to chop it up with you. I'm very selective, man, I need to I need to I need to holler at you. I need to pick your brain about something. I said this before. Picking my brains is like picking my pocket. Picking my brain is like picking my pockets. You feel me. People people have people literally have they exchange with me. So people have they pay money to have conversations with me. You understand what I'm saying. Like my conversations, they yeah, so this is not this? Ain't that? So you as my entrepreneurs to Mika, people listen, meet you gotta be selective of those conversations. You gotta be selective of those meetings that you take, very very selective, all right, be selective for the meetings that you take. Number The next one is for simple updates. Consider alternatives like emails, quick quick huddles which will clear up your agenda. Give an end of the week reports. Just do a weekly report if you can do a week, especially those of you all who have staff, instead of having that weekly, that two hour meeting weekly, No, just get a weekly report. What are you doing in your area? What's going on? You feel me? What give me? In that way is documented. I can I can look at it, I can refer to it. I can compare and contrast the weeks to see what outcomes we accomplish, to see what you feel me, what the comprehensive progress is of your area. Like do a weekly report, a little quick huddle or something along those lines instead of those standing meetings. I hate the standing meetings, all right. Also, when you have those little quick huddles, have a very clear agenda. One of the things that I did when I was in the when I worked at the university, if I walked into a meeting, y'all bear with me on this, I gotta go. If I walked into a meeting and there was no agenda, I'm leaving. If I come to if you come to if you schedule a meeting with me there's no agenda, or I'm included in the meeting and there's no agenda, And I really prefer that the agenda come beforehand so I can look at it and really then I could decide if I need to be there. But if I come to a meeting and there's no agenda that I'm up through, I'm out. I'm out because this is about to be three hours of bush bs. It's all about protecting your time. If it doesn't add value specifically to what it is that you're doing, say no. Also, those of you all who are in leadership, you understand what I'm saying. Those of you all who are in leadership, delegate, feel free to delegate people to those meetings. Delegate, Delegate, delegate, have people who report to you take meetings for you, or go to those meetings and bring that information back to the team, or go to those meetings as a direct representation of your office or your area. Number four social media distractions, the number four time waster social media distractions, y'all go argue with you, y'all, y'all, go argue with somebody else. Go argue with somebody else, Go argue with your auntie. You feel me. Social media distractions. We have social media distractions. The average person spends over two hours a day scrolling through feeds. I need you to think about that for a second. Just told you we have eight hours of productivity. Theoretically, eight hours of productivity. The average person spends over two hours a day scrolling through feeds. This is what I've caught myself doing. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. What you got to do? Instead, set boundaries by scheduling social media breaks and adhere to the schedule. Use website blockers, doing work hours to keep you on track. For those of y'all that need to go to that extreme, you feel me, I say soon as just I don't set any of the social media notifications, not even my own social media sites, So the punch Junkie, the Punch Junkie network, I don't have that I have. I don't have my automatic my automatic things set on my computer. Now. I get push notifications on my cell phone, but not on my computer. None of the none of the but no social media that I'm on do I have the notifications on my computer only to push notifications to my phone, which I can silence. Now this is the stuff I'm actively working on now, so I'm not I'm still a work in progress, but set boundaries used blockers. By managing your digital time, you're more likely to focus on what truly matters. So that's my up and to this point that's been my biggest time wasting and the last, but not least, man is excuse me, poor task prioritization. Poor task prioritization. You know what I'm saying. Without clear priorities, you might spend your day on trivial task instead of what's truly important. You understand what I'm saying, Like, instead of what's truly important, you're going to spend time on BS. Like I told you, Salute to everybody that has the simple Truth Minute Manual, the workbook, the organizer. You know what I'm saying. In the organizer, you do have the ability to go in and let me see if I can. You do have the ability to have your game plan and prioritize your time, So salute to everybody that has. When they are still available, you can go over to the Truth Shop Www. Dot the Truthshop dot dot com and you can order yours. You can order it in print version or you can order the digital version, whatever you prefer. But salute to everybody that has that. Also salute to everybody has the Minute Manual, one hour book that will change the way you watch clock written by yours truly Junior, The Truth available over the Truth Shop www dot truth shop dot com. But you have to prioritize, you know what I'm saying. You can use methods. You can use the methods like the Eisenhower Matrix matrix or the A, B, C D E technique. Those are things you're gonna have to you can look them up yourself. I'm not gonna go over those and explain those right now for the second time because I gotta go. But categorize your task based on urgency and importance. I don't have my I don't have my notebook. I have a notebook that I write my task daily or excuse me weekly on what need what I need to do, and it's broken down in areas. I'll share it. I'll share it with you all over on over on the Simple Truth Network. I'll take a picture of it and share it and show you all kind of what I do when I structure my weeks. But focus on your high priority items first. Don't let the little stuff take over your day. Like really focus and lock in on your high priority items. And like I said, try to do single tasking on those high priority items. I'm gonna start doing that now and really working on focusing, because, like I've told you all, I'll spend too entirely too much time on these things. So once again, up until this point, my biggest time waster is a twenty twenty five and the things that I'm working on right now. Number one is multitasking. I gotta stop. I've been wasting too much time multitasking. Number two is my constant message in checking a message checking. I'm gonna stop wasting my time checking messages and having to refocus. Number three is unnecessary meetings and conversations. Let me add that under necessary meetings and conversations. Those of you all who are in the work force, you know exactly what I'm talking about. As soon as you get good and you get in the groove, here comes, surely, here comes, surely, and surely want to sit in your office and talk and complain and turn your next thirty minutes in thirty to forty five minutes into a total bitch session about your supervisor. Number four is social media distractions. Self explanatory, was understood, needs no explanation. And then number five is poor task prioritization, Like I really really have to work on prioritizing my task appropriately. So that's it, man, that's all five of those. Salute to you all. Thank you all so much. Let me see, let me see, let me see those of y'all who are listening in to the video. What you can comment in the comment section? What challenges are you do you face with regard to your time management and your ability to produce? What challenges are you facing? Y'all can drop it in the chat. But I gotta go, man, I gotta slide on. Salute to you all. Thank you all so much for taking the time to tune in, and I really truly, genuinely appreciate it. If I had a million times, I couldn't tell it all man. Salute to everyybody that shows love to the Black Gentleman Grooving Company. 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