01:30 Diary management. It's not the most exciting of subjects but get it wrong and it can lead to all kinds of kerfuffle, so for example have you ever realised that you didn't allow yourself enough time to get something done and then spent the rest of day or week or month frantically trying to catch up with yourself? So I think that's something we can all relate to and today i'm going to share one simple thing that we could all be doing, to help guard against that sort of kerfuffle. So I've been a member of the Only Networking community for a few years now and I still remember going along to my first online meeting and as a shy introvert I was slightly nervous but putting my best foot forward and ready to meet a bunch of new people! And the meeting lasted 90 minutes but that wasn't the end of the story because once the call was over
02:16 I needed more time and for that very first meeting because i didn't know anyone, I actually needed another hour to sort out my notes connect with people on LinkedIn and send a handful of personal messages. So thankfully I didn't have anything else booked into my diary after the meeting so I was able to focus on those tasks straight away whilst things were fresh in my mind but imagine if my diary had been full-to-bursting with back-to-back calls and an unrealistically long list of things I'd wanted to get done that day I would have spent the rest of that day, perhaps even the rest of the week fretting and stressing about when on earth i was going to get the time to do the follow-up from that networking meeting. And eventually I might well have told myself well it's too late now, I might as well not bother which would have made going to that meeting in the first place a questionable use of my precious time after all building relationships are genuine takes more than just showing up to a meeting once a month doesn't it? So if i'm going to invest time and money in being part of a networking community i want to do it properly or what's the point
03:14 And whilst I'm at it, I actually want to protect time before each meeting too so that i can print the attendance sheet think about what I'd like support with and make sure that I arrive to that meeting feeling really calm and grounded. So I know what I need to flow in and out of those monthly networking meetings with more ease so I can do something about it right? I can plan for it! I can block out that time in my diary so that nothing else creeps in...and I like to think of that as creating a lovely protective bubble around what's important So I wonder, might you benefit from taking that approach too? And i'm going to share another quick example of the importance of giving yourself time in that way. A client that was working with a few years ago was unlike me a prolific networker
