In this episode of Three Thoughts for Thursday, I invite you to rethink time as more than a scheduling problem. Time is not just something you manage, it’s something you experience.

Instead of starting with business goals, I share why I always begin with one deeper question: how do you actually want to spend your time?

We explore three essential layers of time, your year, your month, and your day, and how understanding their natural rhythm can shift you out of force and into flow. From seasonal work cycles to daily creative energy, this episode is about designing a business that supports the life you want to live, not one that consumes it.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re busy but not nourished, productive but depleted, this conversation will help you reconnect with your own time sovereignty and create more space, energy, and ease in your business and your life.

Welcome to three Thoughts for Thursday, where wisdom meets momentum.

Here's Kimberly Beer, entrepreneurial, wise woman and cyber sorceress to share three sparks to challenge how you think, create and lead.

In this three Thoughts for Thursday.

I want to spend some time talking about time and sharing three thoughts I have for entrepreneurs around how they want to spend their time.

So my tagline is to create a business that supports the life you want to live.

And my programs are geared toward that.

And when people come to me to work with me on a one to one basis, my private clients and they want to work on creating a business system that supports the life they want to live, I don't start by asking them their business goals.

I start by asking them how they want to spend their time.

Because I think at the end of our lives, as mine is getting, as I've been on this planet longer and longer, let's just put it that way, it is more about how I experience time, how I experience my day, my week, my month, my year.

And creating a business that supports the life I want to live.

Is it is key to look at some factors around time.

So I'm going to give you three thoughts around three periods of time that I think are absolutely key to consider in how you are showing up in your business and how your business and this is the more important one, how your business is showing up in your life.

So the first one, the first thought or question for today's T3 is how do you want to spend your year?

So I think a lot of us work on how we want to spend our week.

And I'm going to tell you, my calendar is definitely done by the week.

I live on a weekly cycle.

But I also have to recognize that a lot of my business has a seasonality to it.

So I the photography part of my life definitely has a seasonality.

We have a season where we're doing workshops and retreats.

My business life has a season to it.

It's December right now as I'm sitting here recording this and maybe you're listening to it in December, maybe not, but in December there is definitely a rhythm that is different in December than there it will be in.

Even when that calendar flips to the new year in January and when you're looking at how you want to spend your year, how do you want to spend it?

Some people want to be able to take the summers off.

Some people want to be able to travel in the winter.

Some people want to be able to do some type of a ritual once a year where they have A special date that they go on a vacation around when you're thinking about your time and how you want to spend it.

Because we're all given an allotment of days here, an allotment of years, an allotment of months.

Let's take a look at that bigger chunk of time and say, how do I want that to flow?

How do I want to spend my year?

And really answer that question deeply about the year.

How do you want to do that?

Because when you start looking at it as how I want to spend my year in rhythm, then my next thought flows right into that, which is, how do you want to spend your month?

So for me, my seasons dictate a little bit about the month.

Because my year is planned with certain seasons, then that's going to affect the way I spend my month's time.

In some seasons, my entire month gets to be spent here on this farm, hanging out with the horses and my chickens and my goats and recording podcasts and spending some time in creative heaven, which I absolutely adore.

But then when my season starts doing workshops and retreats, I'm gone once a month.

I'm gone for a week.

Most months between February and October, there is generally one week out of the month that I'm not here, and I have to have a rhythm, and I have to, A, want to take that week, and B, feel comfortable with how my month gets spent.

And it is seasonal.

Some months are different than others, but by and large, most of my months have a week carved out of them that I have to compensate for.

I have to realize that even though I love that, it does put stress on my family.

It puts stress on me.

The travel is hard.

I have to know that the benefit, the energy return, the monetary return, the emotional return for that investment in that week, in that month is worth it.

And for me, it is.

I love our workshops and retreats.

I get a ton out of them.

As much as I put into them, I get a ton back.

So that's key.

But for you, think about it.

Do you want your weekends off?

Is that important to you?

Are you okay working one weekend a month?

Do you want to be able to take a week out of your month to carve a week to do something else?

So think about how you want to spend your month, then chunk it down to how do you want to spend your day?

How do you want to spend your week?

So when you think about how you want to spend your day, you can start to look at the rhythm of how you can get into more flow so the earlier episode this week was about transmuting force into flow.

And this conversation about time and about chunking it from the bigger chunk of a year down into a month and then into a day starts to make a lot of sense, right?

So look at the month.

How do you want to spend the weeks within the month?

And then look at your day.

How do you rhythmically work best in flow?

So here's what it is for me, and this is not to say this is what it's going to be for you.

Different strokes for different folks here.

Honestly, everybody has their own rhythm.

I know for me, I love to do my creative stuff right out of bed, and I make that a ritual.

And oftentimes I think my sleep works it out.

I get my download in the night, and then when I come in here to sit and record a podcast or write a blog post or work on my novel or whatever that happens to be, I am in really good creative flow.

And I notice that if I take that time in the morning and I spend the time in that creative flow, I have more gas in my tank at 2 o' clock in the afternoon.

I will tell you on that Tuesday coaching day where I'm on the phone all day.

I don't do out of bed creative time that morning.

I don't do my spiritual practice or my meditation ritual.

I come right in here into this office and talk to people for the entire day.

I have far less gas in my tank at 2 o' clock in the afternoon than I do on the days where I do my spiritual practice, where I do my creative work first thing in the morning.

So those things are key.

How do you want to spend your day?

Sometimes the way that you spend your day, other people factor into.

I know a lot of moms that want to be there when their kids get off the bus or come home from school.

They want to be available for how they want to spend their day.

They want to be available for the people in their lives, and that fuels them.

It feels like it's in flow.

So when you're considering how you want to spend your time, how do you want to spend those days?

I know for me, getting outside is important.

It is important to my mental health.

It is important to my physical health.

It is important to the health of this ranch.

And if my day is too stacked with things for me to allow me to do that, it's a detriment.

And so I need to look at that and say, that's something that feeds me and I need to make it a priority.

So as we are approaching this brand new year and that rip of the calendar that's gonna happen in a week or two, it's important to consider when we're looking at all of the ways that we want to manifest change in the coming new year to say, how is it that I am spending my time and how is it that I really want to spend my time and what works best in the rhythm of me in order to create a lot of flow in my life so I have more energy.

And honestly, what's interesting is when you are in flow, actually have more time.

It's like time collapses and bends to create more space for you because you are in that flow.

All right, thank you for hanging out with me for three thoughts for Thursday.

Have a great weekend and I will see you in the next episode of the Be More Business Podcast.

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