Let's Go Mental!

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Barbara Cortella

02 October 2025

6m 4s

2) Time: Block it! Mini-series

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How do you fit school, sport, friends, family, sleep, and everything else into your day without going crazy? In this episode, Barbara introduces the Big Rocks system — a simple but powerful way to set priorities and protect your time.

You’ll learn how to:

• Shift your mindset: time isn’t a clock, it’s a choice.

• Choose your priorities so you don’t drown in distractions.

• Protect your time with tools like Pomodoro and Timeboxing.

• Find your MIT (Most Important Task).

• Build a weekly system that frees energy, reduces guilt, and gives you more control.

This episode is for athletes — but also for parents and anyone who wants to stop feeling “busy all the time” without moving forward.

Key Takeaways

Big Rocks first. Put your non-negotiables (school, sport, sleep, eating) in place before everything else.

Not everything is important. If everything is important, nothing is important.

Time is a choice. Protect it with focus blocks and boundaries.

System > chaos. When you create structure, you gain more freedom.

This Week’s Challenge

1. Do the Big Rock Exercise → list your rocks, pebbles, and sand.

2. Pick your daily MIT (Most Important Task): one school, one sport, one life.

3. Protect it with a time-box.

4. Share this system with your parents — plan your week together and see how priorities align.

Contact me: b_cortella@yahoo.it

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