Learn why delegating to your team at work or home is an integral part of being productive and keeping up with your customized systems. I’m discussing the various barriers that keep people from delegating and how to persevere through those perceptions and assumptions. After listening to this episode, you’ll understand the steps you can take to easily delegate to your team, allowing yourself to work more effectively on what matters most.
What’s In This Episode:
• How to empower and lead your team to work together and complete tasks.
• Four main reasons why people don’t delegate tasks and how to move past those perceptions.
• Solutions for combating situations when you feel like you can’t delegate.
• Six kinds of tasks that are great to delegate to your team.
• Strategizing the steps from start to finish for your delegations so you will see them through to the end.
It’s common to feel overwhelmed or unsure where to begin when setting goals and trying to get started on tasks. Set yourself up for success by creating springboards for your personalized systems. The best part? There are many different kinds of springboards that you can learn about and implement today. Your processes will now work more effectively and you’ll stay on track with your priorities, goals and projects.
What’s In This Episode:
• Learn which areas in your life you should create springsboards for.
• How the domino effect can work for your springboards and lifestyle.
• How to find ‘bottlenecks’ in your systems and ways to move forward from them.
• Examples of springboards in your business, work and home that will allow you to work more effectively.
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Learn how to use automations as a system that will help you with tasks that need to be done very week or every month. We’re continuing our topic for this season all about personalized systems by discussing how automations can help you take the thinking out of it, as you break down and easily manage tasks, allowing you to complete any goal and project on time and without stress.
What’s In This Episode:
• Eliminate decision fatigue by implementing automations into your lifestyle.
• How to make sure automating tasks works for you at home and at work so that you always complete your tasks and projects.
• Everyday examples of how I automate my chores, projects and tasks, and you can too.
• Actionable tips and how to use your free download to help you create your own automation systems.
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How do we create and implement systems so that they are personalized and actually work for our environment? I’m answering listener questions about keeping up with systems when life happens or urgent items get in the way. In today’s episode, you’ll be able to relate to these real-life questions and examples of how you can maintain your customized systems with good habits through using actionable strategies.
What’s In This Episode:
• How to maintain customized systems when your schedule is inconsistent or hectic.
• Using your mission statement for daily planning to push you to your overall goals.
• How productivity is about making time for yourself and hobbies, not just getting more done.
• Ways to talk to your employer/manager about a monotasking system in the workplace with boundaries and without distractions.
• How to implement organizing, cleaning and productivity into your household with spouses and children.
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Learn why the traditional to-do list is working against you. I’m showing you how to use a new system - the Priority List. This will allow to actually work toward the important items on your list, like your personal goals, instead of getting bogged down by Insignificant tasks. After this episode, you’ll be inspired and ready to start tomorrow morning off with your new and personalized list that propels you forward toward goals and big projects.
What’s In This Episode:
• Why to-do lists don’t really work in today’s society and workplaces.
• Understand and combat that feeling that tasks are always eating away at you.
• How to work more effectively by using the three priority levels that keep your tasks organized.
• Everyday examples of how you can respond to Insignificant tasks so that you can focus on the Important ones.
• Tips on how to begin using this new system in any area of your life.
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Author and speaker, Gretchen Rubin discusses how we can live happier lives by creating good habits through knowing ourselves. We often think it’s too difficult not only to create good habits, but to keep up with them as well. By using Gretchen’s quiz on The Four Tendencies and being aware of loopholes you may use, you’ll be able to cultivate systems and habits that work for you and your lifestyle.
What’s In This Episode:
• Learn the Four Tendencies Framework: Figure out if you’re an Upholder, Questioner, Obliger or Rebel so that you can learn how to best create good habits
• Discover ten different loopholes you may be using to get out of your good habits.
• Hear the Story of the Growing Heap - How ‘one coin’ can affect your consistency of good or bad habits.
• How to create habits for tasks that aren’t always easy or black and white.
• One action item from Gretchen that you can do today to successfully create YOUR good habits.
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Cultivating good habits doesn’t happen magically or right away. It’s not about disciplining yourself so that you’re forcing routines into your life, and that’s what so many of us try to do. Today, you’ll learn the easy but effective formula for creating habits AND sticking to them. I’m also giving you steps to changing those bad habits you’ve been wanting to break for so long so that you have more room to focus on your personalized systems and good habits.
What’s In This Episode:
• How your brain works differently with discipline versus habits.
• The easy formula for creating habits.
• Real-life examples of how you can get started on creating habits by starting small.
• Top tips for cultivating good habits into great routines.
• Learn how to get rid of those bad habits you’ve always wanted to change.
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Discover why “eating the frog,” or getting your most dreaded or biggest task done first thing in the morning, is actually a bad idea and a device for procrastination. Instead, I’m sharing ways you can keep moving forward on goals you set, no matter how big. After listening to today’s episode, you’ll feel empowered to create a plan for yourself, instead of mindlessly completing insignificant tasks or procrastinating your progress to the finish line.
What’s In This Episode:
• Why the system of ‘eating the frog’ doesn’t work for productivity.
• The formula you need instead of discipline in order to get tasks done and goals accomplished.
• Big benefits to making plans and celebrating your wins.
• How to make sure you don’t become burnt out at the end of the day or week.
• Creating successful days full of momentum and progress.
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Start saving yourself time and work smarter through batching your tasks. Today, I’m discussing how you can categorize tasks so you can implement a simple strategy
to help you stay focused and work with intention. After today’s episode, you’ll be ready to begin producing higher quality work in less time.
What’s In This Episode:
• Why you need to work with intention - the natural way your brain WANTS to work.
• The two categories you can use to easily batch tasks.
• Actionable steps to creating a plan for batching task so that your goal is completed.
• Think you don’t have enough time to focus on batching tasks? I’m giving real-life examples and tips for how you can minimize or stop distractions.
• Examples of tasks you can batch starting today.
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Perfectionism can take over when we’re trying complete tasks - from small projects to our biggest goals. Today I’m discussing the signs we should look out for to know whether or not we really may be perfectionists and how that cycle can be broken. With these 5 actionable strategies, you’ll be able to let go and walk away from your perfectionist mindset once and for all.
What’s In This Episode:
• Why we go after perfectionism in the different areas of our lives and the cycle of it.
• How learning from your mistakes creates a better system for yourself.
• Signs and examples of how you can know if you’re a perfectionist.
• Why we need to “stop smashing our marble jar.”
• Tips to creating a healthier mindset instead of keeping the cycle of a perfectionist one.
• How high-stress perfectionism can affect your mental health
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How do you accomplish your big goals and tasks? Start by eating the elephant! Using systems, like this and others will positively affect productivity, relationships and overall goals. In today’s episode, learn exactly what systems are and how to personalize them for you and your environment.
What’s In This Episode:
• Discover how to be more proactive instead of reactive with your systems.
• How to customize your system to work for you and your environment.
• Why you should Eat the Elephant: take bite-sized steps toward goals.
• Actionable tactics you can use to break down big tasks, projects and events.
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Do you get to Sunday night and wonder where the weekend went? We just need to streamline your Saturdays and Sundays for success so you can actually enjoy your time. We often feel the need to work throughout our weekend, but in today’s episode I’m giving 5 tips on how to combat working on the weekend. I’ll also share research on why it’s important to take this time off so you can maximize your productivity for the week ahead.
What’s In This Episode:
• How to cut back on weekend work, emails, texts, to-dos and more using my 5 easy and actionable strategies
• Learn to consistently make the most of your weekends by streamlining Saturday and Sunday for success.
• See what the newest research and studies say about how our brain, health and productivity are affected by working weekends.
• Steps to creating good habits on the weekend so that you work less and spend more time on the right tasks and people.
• Why you need to create hours of availability and hours of business (and the big difference between the two!)
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Eliminate end-of-the-week burnout and make every Friday your most successful and rewarding day of the week. Using streamlining strategies for planning your tasks, obligations and projects will allow you to ease into the weekend. Friday no longer has to be the most unproductive day of the week - let’s make it successful, productive AND relaxing!
What’s In This Episode:
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Many times our priorities and the tasks that are truly important to us get pushed aside. The urgent tasks call out to us and we end up prioritizing those instead of our goals. By using my priority levels system, you will achieve more because you’ll schedule in those personal priorities - both big and small.
What’s In This Episode:
• Learn how Calee Lee used two unplanned hours in her day to create a 7 figure business.
• How to attain the mindset that will move you towards real success & productivity.
• Implementing an easy priority system that allows you to schedule the tasks and events that are important to YOU.
• How I schedule my business around stages of life that works for my family and me.
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Laura Vanderkam, author of I Know How She Does It, shares her strategies from her research on how women who have a career and family make time for both. We’re discussing how tracking your time and managing it is key to living the best, healthiest and most fulfilling life possible. Learn about the "scripts" we tell ourselves when it comes to how we manage time.
What’s In This Episode:
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We spend time like it's endless, when really it's a finite commodity. If you start treating your time, like you do your bank account, you'll find that there are ways we can find pockets of time in our daily schedules. Use these 5 actionable tactics to banking up your time and start getting more time for yourself and your priorities.
What’s In This Episode:
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Should you streamline the amount of sleep you get each night. How much sleep do you really require? There are a few factors that go into answering this question and today’s episode is all about sleep and how it will help you to reach peak productivity. Through researching the brain and sleep myths & facts, I’ll give you the best strategies to help you understand and create good sleep habits.
What's In this Episode:
• Understand why sleep is so important to repair & restore our bodies.
• Hear the story of Peter Trip and the repercussions of staying awake for 201 hours.
• Learn how the different parts of your brain are affected when you lack sleep.
• Discover the factors that help tell you how much sleep you need.
• Check the seven signs that let you know if you’re really sleep deprived.
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What’s the ideal amount of time to work each week? Is Elon Musk right that we should be working 80+ hour weeks or is Tim Ferriss correct in thinking you only should work four? I’m discussing these questions along with some streamlining and time management tips so you can figure out the amount of hours that work for you. Learn how people see their work differently and how that will affect the way you work.
What’s In This Episode:
• Learn the health costs of being overworked.
• Understand why working more than 40 hours a week may be costing you more than you think.
• Find out why using automations is a major key to success at work.
• Apply Tim Ferriss' suggestions for productivity & time management to empower yourself and coworkers using
• Discover how people view “work” differently and the importance in streamlining so you can work more effectively.
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The first Productivity Paradox listener Q&A is here! I'm answering your questions on finding your peak productivity through time management, beating the feeling of overwhelm and more. Sometimes your career responsibilities, home life and personal needs can be a lot to handle, and I want to help you find harmony with every compartment of your life by answering these real-life questions.
What’s In This Episode:
• The best listener questions and my answers on being more productive, managing your time and beating overwhelm at work, home and personally.
• Saying No vs. saying Yes in workplace situations.
• How to simplify and streamline your planning so that you actually accomplish your goal.
• The best way to minimize kid distractions when working at home
• How to mono task when everyone else tells you to multitask
• Avoiding procrastination and feeling positive
• The three key things to do when starting a business to ensure success
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Sometimes life can be unexpected, and the only way we can prepare for that is by creating and building in cushions to our time so that we can slow down and do our best. In today’s episode, I’ll go over how and why we need to stop underestimating our time and instead adjust to it. Once we have these cushions, or buffers, in place we will stop wasting time and money and start giving ourselves the space to plan.
What’s In This Episode:
• How to build in buffers to your life.
• Real-life examples of how buffers allow you to adjust to unexpected events.
• Why sometimes it’s not the best idea to be overly optimistic.
• How to calculate the time it will actually take you to complete a task.
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There’s a lot of guilt that comes with the idea of quitting something. But in today’s modern world, it’s actually imperative that we quit certain things that don’t align with our goals and priorities. I’m giving an overview of why quitting something huge in my life was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made and how you can apply those lessons learned in your own life. You’ll also get a free download in helping you decide if you need to quit something and how to plan and cope in that process.
What’s In This Episode:
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We sometimes invest so much time, money, energy and more into something. Whether it be a project, a person or a simple task, it can be hard to admit that it’s just not working out and producing the results you want and need. This is called sunk cost bias, and in this episode I’ll be explaining how it creates a vicious cycle and what questions you need to ask yourself to know whether to keep going in your investments or to start over.
What’s In This Episode:
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Today I’m sharing my personal favorite strategies to compartmentalize your life for work, home and personal. Learn about these three main categories and how compartmentalizing can help us gage the importance and urgency of various tasks. By the end, you’ll be able to implement these strategies so that you feel less stressed and more focused on one category at a time.
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Discover how you can hone in and focus on your priorities without getting FOMO about missing other opportunities. For today’s episode, I’m talking about how FOMO is a major factor to developing trends and to how we perceive the many situations around us. I’ll discuss a few of my favorite tips to start breaking that feeling many of us get when we have to choose between what to do.
What’s In This Episode:
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While Alex Mandossian is a man known by many titles - productivity expert, entrepreneur, business coach and, in his opinion, his most important role of being a dad. In today's show, we're talking about why you need to focus on your priorities over your productivity. Alex gives some of his best productivity secrets including a rundown of his daily ritual, tips for controlling your inbox and more.
What’s In This Episode:
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