In this short, powerful bite-size episode of Energy + Hours, Jill breaks down the Four P’s of Time Management: a simple but transformational way to understand how to plan, prioritize, personalize, and approach productivity in a more aligned and sustainable way
Whether you’re a mom, a business owner, or simply feeling overwhelmed by everything on your plate, this episode gives you a clear, supportive starting point for managing your time without burning out.
Inside the episode, Jill shares how to:✨ Create a plan that keeps you anchored instead of swept away by life
✨ Prioritize what actually matters (especially when everything feels urgent)
✨ Personalize your time management to fit your season, your energy, and your neurodiverse brain
✨ Redefine productivity with rhythms, energy, and rest
✨ Understand the difference between rest and self-care using Jill’s full-cup analogy
✨ Build a toolbox of strategies that evolve with you
What You’ll Learn in This Episode✨ Why planning is essential if you want to stop living in reaction mode
✨ How to get clear on what comes FIRST (and why prioritization reduces overwhelm)
✨ The role of self-knowledge and personalization in sustainable time management
✨ How your natural energetic rhythms affect productivity
✨ Jill’s full-cup model for understanding baseline vs. optimal energy
✨ Why rest is not the same as self-care
✨ The real reason burnout happens and how to prevent it
✨ How to build a flexible toolbox of time and energy tools that grow with you
Related Episodes:✨ Thriving Through the Holiday Chaos with Jamie Glowackihttps://open.spotify.com/episode/7nNr1tfXDDQMPmPYiX84Rc?si=HBQgYvJDQTuimDP0WpCWVQ
✨ Tired? You Might Be Resting Wronghttps://open.spotify.com/episode/4971JZdN7LkLFsRdO9usWf?si=zlLCW4XQR4WvOU4e3ZJ95Q
✨ Eat Your Frog – The Simple Planning Hack That Actually Workshttps://open.spotify.com/episode/2dobBoHGTWNFNRw0D2ctrb?si=a77HTUFyRAOOZbmEMDt7mw
✨ Behind the Magic - the Time Magic Framework https://open.spotify.com/episode/5iVRrQMcrR70J9Rtdq4fN5?si=aPp6GI60TcSPIjGn0qbHlw
Resources Mentioned✨ Take the Quiz: https://jillwright.ca/quiz
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✨ The Time Magic™ Planner: https://jillwright.ca/planner
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🕒 Timestamps
00:00 — Welcome + Jamie Glowacki shoutout
00:21 — Holiday burnout: linking Jamie’s episode
00:37 — Today’s topic: The 4 P’s of Time Management
01:03 — Why you need a simple framework
01:16 — P #1: Planning (what, why, and how)
02:15 — Planning gives you control
02:32 — Weekly planning + the Time Magic Planner
02:53 — P #2: Prioritizing
03:14 — Why prioritizing eliminates paralysis
03:44 — Prioritizing strategies: Eat Your Frog, Choose 3, values-based planning
04:03 — The Eisenhower Matrix
04:18 — P #3: Personalization
04:46 — Why time management must be tailored to YOU
05:11 — Seasons, strengths, support, and energetics
05:33 — Start with the Time Management Style Quiz
05:58 — Building your personalized toolbox
06:10 — When tools stop working (and what to do next)
06:35 — Time management for neurodiverse brains
06:37 — P #4: Productivity
07:17 — Your human design + natural energy rhythms
07:30 — Peaks, sprints, and rest needs
08:10 — Rest as a productivity tool
08:45 — Rest vs. self-care + Jill’s full-cup analogy
09:50 — The 7 types of rest
10:19 — The podcast as a treasure trove of tools
11:03 — Rest (bottom half of the cup)
11:58 — Self-care (top of the cup)
12:12 — Time confetti vs. intuitive self-care
12:53 — Why productivity is misunderstood
13:03 — The Time Magic™ Framework: Productivity, Self-Care, Rest
13:30 — Recap of the four P’s
14:20 — Final thoughts + how to support the podcast