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The Podcast of Personal Productivity Lessons in Two Minutes or Less
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A virtual reading discussion club for personal productivity enthusiasts.
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Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America, brings timely updates, powerful note-taking and workflow techniques, and interesting conversations for getting more done with Evernote.
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Looking to learn something useful from a productivity podcast? Tired of the stale "interview-the-author" format which just regurgitates stuff you have already heard? Join me at the 2Time Labs and listen in as we attempt to create a new product, service, tool or aid in real time. It's not an interview, but a joining together of minds where my guest and I use everything we can find to craft something new you can use to improve your productivity. Sometimes we hit the mark... sometimes we don't, ...
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Productivity Book Group [ https://productivitybookgroup.org ] discussed Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today [ https://amzn.to/48Hv3Y9 ] by Jane McGonigal, PhD. Enjoy the discussion! The Amazon book description states: * 2023 Nautilus Book Award Winner: Rising to the Moment: Gol…
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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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Productivity Book Group [ https://productivitybookgroup.org ] hosted our group book discussion for Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind by Dan Charnas. Buy a copy on Amazon, bring a copy home from your local, independent bookstore, or borrow a copy from your local library, and enjoy the replay o…
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The Checklist Manifesto – Productivity Book Group
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Productivity Book Group [ https://productivitybookgroup.org ] hosted our book discussion for The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande, MD. Buy a copy on Amazon, bring a copy home from your local, independent bookstore, or borrow a copy from your local library, and listen to the discussion. Enjoy! About Atul Gawande, MD (Wikipedia) Atul Gawande is th…
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First Things First – Productivity Book Group
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Productivity Book Group [https://productivitybookgroup.org] hosted our group book discussion for First Things First by Stephen R. Covey, PhD . Buy a copy on Amazon, bring a copy home from your local, independent bookstore, or borrow a copy from your local library, and listen to the discussion! Enjoy! About Stephen R. Covey (Wikipedia) Stephen R. Co…
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The Psychology of Procrastination – Productivity Book Group
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Productivity Book Group [ https://productivitybookgroup.org ] discussed The Psychology of Procrastination by Hayden Finch, PhD. Buy a copy on Amazon, bring a copy home from your local, independent bookstore, or borrow a copy from your local library. Enjoy the discussion! About Hayden Finch PhD (Amazon) Part Lisa Ling, part Reese Witherspoon, and pa…
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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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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 inBy Ray Sidney-Smith
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Last week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art started a discussion about caffeinated productivity. This week, they continue their conversation aboutBy Ray Sidney-Smith
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a conversation about coffee and tea and all things caffeine! (If you’reBy 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 ownBy 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 inBy 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 andBy 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-relatedBy 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 aBy 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 beBy Ray Sidney-Smith
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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 thisBy Ray Sidney-Smith
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