Hi, my name is Fab (I know, what a way to kick off hey), and no, it’s not short for fabulous, you cheeky little thing.

First and foremost, some Medium introductions. You may have read my pieces in the following columns:

• News in Brief — Social Media & Marekting News Column for Better Marketing
• The Brave Marketer — My Marketing for Writers Column for the Brave Writer
• Productivity Guinea Pigs — My Productivity Column for the Post-Grad Survival Guide

The back story

It has been a long while since I launched my first course. However, I can still remember the excitement. The trepidation, waiting for the first email pinging into my inbox saying somebody has bought your course.

Since then, I have learned so much about launching, developing and delivering courses. Over the past eight years, I’ve been really blessed to learn from the best to deliver professional workshops to big crowds online and offline.

I’ve been training with speaking coaches as well as education and learning experts. I created a full suite of courses and bundles. …

BRAVE MARKETER

Pushing a book can be exhausting — trust me, I know a thing or two about it. I just released my second book, Reclaim your Time Off, out into the world.

This book taught me so much about how to effectively launch your masterpiece and share it with the world. The first step was creating a media plan. Together we took the time to outline who is part of your media squad, and who will be supporting you during your book launch.

Now, it’s time for you to get back to the writing board. It is indeed time for you…

7 STEPS TO RECLAIM YOUR TIME OFF

This post is part of our 7-day Reclaim your Time off challenge. Missed one of the past steps? Click here to get up to speed.

Boundaries are a great way to reclaim your time, and then we’ll help you with all the other habits and little hacks we talked about in this piece.

Boundaries can be physical, such as create finding another room to do your work or your time snacks, but they can also be mental. When it comes to creating boundaries, the first thing is achieving excellent communication.

Understand what the one thing that you can do to…

Tomorrow is the day my second book, Reclaim Your Time Off, comes out into the world. I will not lie to you. I am so excited, yet I’m also exhausted. I know, the irony.

It does not come as a surprise, however (and I did come prepared). I learned a lot from publishing my first book in 2018, and I made sure I would apply those lessons for the second book.

By applying those lessons, I learned how important it is to really give it all you have got to be prepared to plan ahead. …

7 STEPS TO RECLAIM YOUR TIME OFF

This post is part of our 7-day Reclaim your Time off challenge. Missed one of the past steps? Click here to get up to speed.

Meetings do not have to be draining — yet they require you to look at ways to be more efficient with them.

The simplest thing you can do to hack your meetings is to institute an agenda — something I explore in great lengths in Reclaim your Time Off.

By having a shared plan that’s available to all team members before each meeting, everyone has the opportunity to contribute to it. …

7 STEPS TO RECLAIM YOUR TIME OFF

This post is part of our 7-day Reclaim your Time off challenge. Missed one of the past steps? Click here to get up to speed.

Here’s a shocking stat for you. Ideally, it’s best to dedicate 40% of your workday to include time for breaks.

Consider this the time you can spend recharging in between meeting, calls, email inbox replies. Read this once again, then look at your calendar for the week.

There is most likely about 10% space for breaks at the moment — seriously, that just about allows for a lunch break.

Aside from using tools to help…

7 STEPS TO RECLAIM YOUR TIME OFF

This post is part of our 7-day Reclaim your Time off challenge. Missed one of the past steps? Click here to get up to speed.

Reclaiming your time can entail a lot of things — yet one of them should be finding ways to make the most of your time; a straightforward way to do this is to create one focus hour throughout the day.

Every day, I take my first two hours to prioritise movement, journaling and goal setting, meditation, and food. Yes, before that, I always have a coffee, something you may not be too surprised about.

Since…