Notice where time goes
Review commitments, interruptions and lost time, including the role of technology and expectations from others.
Personal growth
It’s About Time: The Art of Choosing the Meaningful over the Urgent
Make more deliberate choices about where your time and attention go.
By Valorie Burton
What this programme helps you work on.
A full calendar does not necessarily reflect what matters most. Valorie Burton’s It’s About Time explores the pressure of urgency, competing obligations and the choices behind how you spend attention. Participants review current commitments and make room for a meaningful priority through more deliberate planning.
Who it suits
Overcommitted professionals balancing competing demands.
The focus
Meaningful priorities, time budgeting and daily, weekly and monthly planning.
Inside the programme
What you’ll explore.
These themes guide the learning. The depth and selection depend on the format and the needs you bring.
Define what is meaningful
Identify a priority that deserves attention and examine why urgent demands repeatedly displace it.
Make deliberate trade-offs
Consider which commitments to change, reduce or discuss so your plan reflects the time actually available.
Use planning and pauses
Connect daily, weekly and monthly planning with time to stop, review and choose rather than simply react.
From ideas to action
Put it into practice.
Review your commitments and make room for one meaningful priority.
An example to work through
Review your next week’s calendar. Identify one meaningful task with no protected time, then choose a commitment to adjust and prepare any conversation needed to make the change realistic.
This is an example of local application. We adapt the discussion to your situation and agreed scope.
Your practical takeaways
What you’ll work towards.
- A clearer picture of how current commitments use your time.
- A meaningful priority with space allocated to it.
- A planning habit and a commitment to reconsider.
The learning experience
How it works.
Facilitated learning combines explanation, discussion and reflection on participants’ own situations. Where the agreed format allows, you practise an application and decide what to try at work. Scope, duration and any follow-up are agreed around the group’s needs.