Laura Davis is a corporate marketing leader turned time management strategist for women. Her journey began almost 7 years ago when her and her husband went through infertility and IVF treatments which forced her to get really good at managing time. After researching the best ways to manage time, Laura discovered that very little of the data, tips and strategies in this space were tailored for women. This is when Time Management Academy was born giving women a realistic blueprint for balancing a thriving career with being mom without feeling overwhelmed by life’s demands.
Every day for the first week of 2024, a new guest expert joins host Lori Oberbroeckling to share the secrets, the strategies, and the tools she uses to plan her best year ever. Best-selling authors, CEOs of million-dollar corporations, women running six-figure side-hustles while working full-time, podcasters, and more join us to spill it all. You do not want to miss a single episode of this amazing series!
Laura Davis joins us today to share how to break down goals into the sum of their parts and why her planning strategy does NOT include planning for the entire year.
Laura shares with us…
- Deciding how you want to feel for the year before you start setting any goals or pulling out a calendar
- How we can be more efficient when we are spending our time in a way that we want
- Accepting your own reality
- Laura’s personal word of the year and her cycles of intensity and rest
- Steps to plan your year in the best way (starting in Q4 of the previous year if you can!)
- Asking yourself about your career, social, health and personal goals
- Plugging in major commitments for your full-year
- Why Laura does NOT plan her whole year and uses quarterly and monthly planning instead
- Breaking goals down into the sum of their parts
- The power of having things to look forward to in your year and planning personal fun first
- Planning goals and then working backwards
- Deciding where to focus your time throughout the year when you have multiple priorities (ie. family, business, career, etc.)
- Laura’s routine for monthly, weekly, daily planning
- What to do when things go wrong with your plan
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Show Notes: How to Plan Your Year with Laura Davis
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Hey, hey friend! Welcome to Episode #163 of The Secrets of Supermom Show!
It’s Lori here, and I am so glad you are following along with my favorite series of the year. If you are listening in for the first time today, we started this series on December 28th and all the way through January 4th we have a new guest every day sharing with us How to Plan Your Best Year Ever.
Over these eight days, we will hear from eight experts on time management, productivity, planning, goal-setting, and simply being a supermom. They will share with us how they personally plan their best year ever. Get ready to feel inspired, motivated, and ready for your best year ever.
If you missed the first few episodes, you can head back to…
Episode #158 and hear from Anna Dearmon Kornick, Time Management Coach, author of Time Management Essentials: The Tools You Need to Maximize Your Energy, Attention, and Productivity, and host of It’s About Time – A Podcast about Work, Life and Balance.
Episode #159 with Toni-Ann Mayembe, host of Real Happy Mom, full-time dentist, and army reservist.
Episode #160 with Maria Maldonado Smith, your go-to-gal for all things goal setting, systems, and process planning. She is an expert at visual imagery, vision boards, and is 4x certified in Enneagram from The Enneagram Institute.
Episode #161 with Chelsey Newmyer, productivity coach, brand new mom, and host of the podcast From Overwhelmed to Under Control.
Episode #162 with Leah Remillet, host of the Balancing Busy podcast, international speaker, and strategist who helps women do less to get more.
Laura Davis joins us today to share how to break down goals into the sum of their parts and why her planning strategy does NOT include planning for the entire year.
Friends, if you love this episode and this series, I would sure love for you to share it with a friend. We need more moms out there hitting big audacious goals without the guilt and without the overwhelm.
I am super excited to bring Laura back to the show.
Y’all, before we dive into the show, I have a special treat for you. After this amazing podcast series ends, I have a mega workshop for you on January 7th. It is called, you guessed it, How to Plan Your Best Year Ever, and it walks you through a step-by-step plan combining tried and true methods with some of the strategies from our brilliant guests to plan your very best year. You can grab your seat right now, at www.secretsofsupermom.com/plan.
This workshop is for you if…
You want to start saying NO to things that don’t light you up.
You want to feel more organized and less overwhelmed in 2024.
You want more time for YOU.
You want to set a big goal and actually reach it.
You want to better manage your time and your energy.
You want to live this year feeling peace and happiness, ready for even bigger things.
Let’s make 2024 the year you find a purpose, create a plan, and crush it. I cannot wait to see you there! Let’s get on with the show!
In today’s episode, we discuss…
- Deciding how you want to feel for the year before you start setting any goals or pulling out a calendar
- How we can be more efficient when we are spending our time in a way that we want
- Accepting your own reality
- Laura’s personal word of the year and her cycles of intensity and rest
- Steps to plan your year in the best way (starting in Q4 of the previous year if you can!)
- Asking yourself about your career, social, health and personal goals
- Plugging in major commitments for your full-year
- Why Laura does NOT plan her whole year and uses quarterly and monthly planning instead
- Breaking goals down into the sum of their parts
- The power of having things to look forward to in your year and planning personal fun first
- Planning goals and then working backwards
- Deciding where to focus your time throughout the year when you have multiple priorities (ie. family, business, career, etc.)
- Laura’s routine for monthly, weekly, daily planning
- What to do when things go wrong with your plan
Are you interested in learning more about Laura Davis?
https://www.instagram.com/its.laura.davis
About Our Guest: Laura Davis
Laura Davis is a corporate marketing leader turned time management strategist for women. Her journey began almost 7 years ago when her and her husband went through infertility and IVF treatments which forced her to get really good at managing time. After researching the best ways to manage time, Laura discovered that very little of the data, tips and strategies in this space were tailored for women. This is when Time Management Academy was born giving women a realistic blueprint for balancing a thriving career with being mom without feeling overwhelmed by life’s demands.
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About the Host: Lori Oberbroeckling
Lori Whitney Oberbroeckling is a mom of four, corporate leader, podcaster, productivity expert, and author of the book Secrets of Supermom: How Extraordinary Moms Succeed at Work and Home & How You Can Too!
She is passionate about helping parents who want fulfilling careers–or side hustles or passion projects–while also wanting to feel present and connected to their families.
