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How to Conduct a Mid-Year Review
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Today on ProductivityCast we’re going to be talking about stepping away from getting things done so you can review and reflect, and then get back to getting things done better. It’s halfway through the year and so it’s a good time to discuss the mid-year review. A mid-year review is a practice like any other reflection activity, where we take the t…
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Defining Personal Productivity
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Today, the ProductivityCast team talks about terminology, that is, what are the terms that we use in the personal productivity space? And why is there so much confusion around those particular words that we use? (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/140 for clickable links and the full show no…
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Subjective versus Objective Time
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In this week’s episode, the ProductivityCast team debated subjective versus objective time as commentary on the article, “My Fixation on Time Management Almost Broke Me.” Thanks to Brian C. for the recommended reading! (See https://www.personalproductivity.club/posts/14785370.) (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https:…
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All – ProductivityCast Live
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Today, we’re releasing this episode which was recording live at the Task Management & Time Blocking Summit 2023 stage. The theme of the conference is “One Size Doesn’t Fit All” and so the ProductivityCast team spent time discussing in front of the live audience what our thoughts are on challenges of one-size-fits-all and some thoughts of solving fo…
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Hyper-Scheduling: Commentary on MacSparky’s Granular Time Blocking Method
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In a post entitled, Hyper-Scheduling, David Sparks (a/k/a MacSparky) writes about his method of time blocking on a granular level. This week, the ProductivityCast team provides their commentary, challenges and methods on this concept of hyper-scheduling, which will hopefully spark ideas on how you can better manage your time-based work. (If you’re …
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Projects Sequencing: Ordering Your Projects to Enhance Productivity
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In this week’s episode, the ProductivityCast team continues their conversation about sequencing for greater productivity, this time about ordering projects to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/136 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcr…
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Task Sequencing: How to Condition and Order Tasks for Greater Momentum
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This week, the ProductivityCast team tackles the topic of ordering tasks conditionally and task sequencing for momentum. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/135 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If yo…
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Get More Out of Your Calendar: Forecasting, Budgeting and Tracking Your Day
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In this week’s episode, the ProductivityCast team chats about how to track and manage time in a calendar/agenda style format to be more productive. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/134 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, …
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Time Blocking and Time Chunking: Setting Up an Effective Reminder System
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This week, the ProductivityCast team talks about how to set up effective reminders when you’re time blocking (or time chunking) as your primary productivity system. The conversation turns out much more useful for anyone looking to set up an effective reminder system. Enjoy! (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://pr…
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In this week’s cast, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art discuss why task lists fail in your personal productivity systems? And, we offer some tips for making task lists that are resilient to our workaday worlds. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/132 for clickable links and the full show notes a…
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Learning and the Four Stages of Curiosity
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art discuss learning and four stages of curiosity. Curious what they are? Listen inVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Caffeine-Based Productivity, Part 2
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Last week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art started a discussion about caffeinated productivity. This week, they continue their conversation aboutVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Caffeine-Based Productivity, Part 1
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a conversation about coffee and tea and all things caffeine! (If you’reVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Productivity Taxonomy: Making Tags Work in Your Personal Productivity System (Part 2)
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art continue the conversation about tags, discussing how they use tags in their ownVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Productivity Taxonomy: Do Tags Help You Be More Productive? (Part 1)
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a conversation about tags. Classifying information in our productive lives comes inVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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The Power Bible: In Conversation with Comedian and Author Brendon Lemon
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This week, Augusto and I sat down with co-author of The Power Bible, Brendon Lemon. Brendon is a comedian andVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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BookCast: The Myth of Multitasking, Second Edition by Dave Crenshaw
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a new series on ProductivityCast, BookCast, to discuss books in time management-relatedVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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This week, in continuing on our recent episodes about note-taking methods, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art are taking on aVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Productivity Labs, Methods Edition—Bullet Journal
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Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art art starting a new “series” called Productivity Labs here on ProductivityCast. We’re going to beVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Note-Taking Methodologies
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In this week’s ProductivityCast episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art voiced their thoughts on note-taking methodologies. (If you’re reading thisVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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A Love Letter to Note-Taking
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In this week’s ProductivityCast episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art voiced their thoughts on note-taking—the value of note-taking, methods weVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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The four-day workweek is lately in the news. Its promise is greater economic benefits for businesses and governments, and increasedVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Building a Memory Palace
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In this week’s episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art explain the concept of building a memory palace (a/k/a Method ofVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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2021 in Review, 2022 in Preview
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In this week’s episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art gathered round the microphones to discuss what they noticed happening inVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Productivity App-apalooza! Fourth Edition
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A few times per year, the ProductivityCast team comes together to share with you a few software products and/or servicesVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Convenience: Personal Productivity Enabler, or Not?
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Back when smartphones first came out, some (including Francis) asked the question: is a smartphone superior to a knapsack fullVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Today we are discussing about Voice Productivity. the ProductivityCast team explains how to use Voice on our devices and technologyVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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How Is It Important But Not Urgent?!
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Using the Eisenhower Matrix Productivity Method Longtime productivity technique, Eisenhower Method, is often tied to the myth of President DwightVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Productivity Potpourri, Numero Dos
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Today, we take four questions that each of the ProductivityCast team has brought to the show and then we answerVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Making Time to Focus With KosmoTime CEO Nicolas Vandenberghe
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We had the pleasure of interviewing on the show, Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO of KosmoTime. Nicolas Vandenberghe started selling newspapers inVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Productivity Software Stewardship for the World
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We are going to be talking about software stewardship. And really what that means for the world of productivity, cultureVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution (BookCast)
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We are starting a new ongoing series on ProductivityCast called BookCast. Each BookCast, we bring you a productivity book thatVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Making Templates in Your Productivity Software
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Templates can be a clever time-saving tool in your productivity tool belt, if you know where they are in yourVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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25/55 Productivity Accountability Technique
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In this week’s episode, we are going to introduce you to a productivity accountability technique called 25/55 (named for touchingVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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The Ultimate GTD App According to David Allen
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At the end of November 2019, David Allen, author and creator of Getting Things Done, held his latest (and presumablyVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Dealing With Distractions in Open Offices
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We received this comment below on the podcast (Episode 100), and so we’re answering his question on dealing with distractionsVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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A Year in Review & Preview for Personal Productivity
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What a year 2020 has been! This week, the ProductivityCast team reminisces on four of our eight favorite episode topicsVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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The Pomodoro Technique This week on ProductivityCast, we discuss the ever-popular personal productivity technique called the Pomodoro Technique, a timeVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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Using Your Task Management Profile to Focus Changes
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Using Your Task Management Profile to Focus Changes Everyone is walking around with self-taught skills in task management. As such,Von Ray Sidney-Smith
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Productivity App-apalooza! #3
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This week, we bring you our third Productivity App-apalooza! We’ll review three apps each that we know and use, andVon Ray Sidney-Smith
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