Show Notes: (4:50) Create ‘No Meeting’ blocks. (9:01) Shift how you schedule your Mondays to beat the ‘Sunday Scaries’. (14:10) Shift the time of day that you do certain tasks. (15:22) Initiate a ‘calendar audit’. (19:40) Put mechanisms in place to protect yourself. (24:53) Keep the ‘room suckers’ at bay. Show Links: + Want to […]

154 – How to deal with an overwhelming calendar.

Leadership, Podcast, Productivity

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There’s always more to do than I have time for.  It’s one of my most constant frustrations in life, so years ago, I set out to find a system that I could rely on to ease the overwhelm.  It seemed like everything out there was overly complicated or too hard to keep up with, which […]

How to organize your life and avoid burnout

Productivity

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Weekly planning to avoid burnout.

It’s easy to be overwhelmed in the day-to-day: there’s so much to do all the time! I’ve shared about my 3-step process for Weekly Planning, and today, I want to share with you an easy way to keep it all organized. After trying various tools, I use Trello (not an ad!) because it has what […]

Simple Trello board system to organize your work and life

Productivity

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 What’s the one thing  you need to accomplish next week?   When is a good time for you to spend some dedicated time to completing your ‘one thing’? We can’t guarantee that your to-do list will shrink. But if you spend just 30 minutes each week taking the time to answer questions like this, we can guarantee that you’ll walk […]

147: The Greenhouse Weekly Planning Method x an interview with Member Tina Mollers

Podcast, Productivity

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How do you choose what’s urgent versus what’s important? Listen in! (3:00-06:30) feeling scattered and the need to get organized. (06:30-15:00) prioritizing important over urgent and beating the Sunday Scaries. (15:00-20:00)  Friday Planning to set the next week up for success. (20:00 -24:20) DeepWork blocks and your Main Thing. (26:01-33:45) organization systems. Links Noted + Take […]

146: How to set your priorities (+ focus on what actually matters).

Podcast, Productivity

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Want to be more productive in your day to day? This is the episode for you. (2:00-3:18) productivity + personality differences. (3:20- 06:10) how do we organize time? what is our relationship with time? how do we ‘switch modes’ effectively? (16:20-17:20) blocking time for ‘non-meeting’ stuff. (17:25-19:50 ) prioritization requires intention. (19:52-22:20) where are we […]

145: How to be more productive

Podcast, Productivity

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