Episode 86: Donuts and the Tick Tick App

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Welcome to Season 2 of CEO Meets Homeschool. My name is Timia Parker and I am both a CEO and homeschool mom to my four boys. Welcome to Episode 86. I'm going to share a story about being a mom to four boys, two teens, two preteens. It's pretty crazy. And um, food is a big commodity in our house. We can buy a lot of it. The boys can eat a lot of it. And if they're not careful, the brothers can eat the other brother's food. It gets, things can get elevated in regards to. If a brother will be mad if somebody ate his food, so the other day I'm trying to remember one of my kiddos. We try not to do doughnuts or Unhealthy food that much but it's also I have lots of happy memories like, you know Doing a doughnut run like they kind of grew up with that. So we still do things like that and my youngest He's like, can we get doughnuts? And so I end up getting a dozen and they divided it up and the youngest He wanted to save one for the next morning and apparently he decided he was going to bring it downstairs and hide that donut in his bedroom. It just makes me laugh, but I'm usually up before the kids and I was in the kitchen the next morning. And then all of a sudden I see this, the youngest, he comes up and he's got this box and he's like protecting this donut that he saved. And sure enough, he managed to protect that donut till the next morning and had it for breakfast. But it, it made me smile. And I thought I'd share some of the shenanigans going on in our house. And then I wanted to share about this kind of cool app that I was told about, I have kind of a unexpected mentor that's kind of come into my life and it's been a blessing. And so I was able to share some of the. Struggles I've had with, like, problem solving, and one of the suggestions he had told me to try was, there's an app, and it's called TickTick, kind of a funny name, and it is, I guess, a productivity app. It's kind of just tracking what you need to get done. But within this app, there is one of the sections, and it's called Eisenhower Matrix, and this Eisenhower Matrix. Is it takes a play out of the book, seven habits of highly effective people, which is a super popular business book. And let me just give you a quick breakdown on this Eisenhower function. There's four categories. So when you're making your to do list. You can choose, is it urgent and important, is it not urgent and important, is it urgent and unimportant, or lastly, is it not urgent and unimportant. So obviously the goal is you want to add things to the list if it's urgent and important or add things to the list if it's not urgent. And I was on the call with this gentleman who had recommended this and I was like, I have nothing under urgent and unimportant and not urgent and unimportant. And I think he appreciated hearing that, but the truth is, is the more focus you get on what you should be doing versus what kind of goes back to saying no to everything. So you can say yes to what's most important. If you start breaking things out and you want to start getting those things. That shouldn't be on your list of to do's, it'll help you identify it and then you can eventually move those off of your list. And so I would say by starting to use this app this year, it kind of gave me some clarity and kind of helped remind me of some of the tasks that were most important or urgent things. It really is. It's a great app. And I. would say my productivity has probably gone up by 30%, which is pretty significant. So I thought I would mention that. And yeah, if it's something you think will be helpful, feel free to check it out. It's I think there's a free version, and then there's a paid version, paid versions, maybe 30 a year. And that's all I have today. Have a great day. If you have enjoyed today's episode, please consider liking and subscribing. This will help me reach more CEOs and homeschoolers. Thanks so much.