Task Management & Time Blocking Podcast

Ep 8 - Should We Want More Bright, Shiny Improvement Objects?

As a productivity enthusiast, you are hooked on making improvements. For any number of reasons, you are intrigued by the idea of making progress by continually shaping your behaviors, apps and devices. For that reason you pay attention to advertisements and read articles.
But how in the world do you make sense of the hundreds of suggestions made to you each day from people around the internet. A long time ago, you could chase down every lead. 
But now, there are endless rabbit holes to go down. How do you get to the point where you don’t try to pay attention to them all, or unhook yourself from chasing down bright, shiny improvement objects?
Tune into this episode to listen to me and my special guest, Carl Pullein, as we solve this challenging problem together.

Ep 7 - How to Make the Most of Our Summit

So...you are thinking about registering for the Task Management & Time Blocking Virtual Summit, or maybe you have already registered. You want to make the most of the learning experience, like any growth opportunity you life presents you.
But you want to make sure you choose wisely. There is more to do, videos to watch, people to meet - than you can do in three days, even if you don't get much sleep. How can you make the most of the event?
In this short episode, I'll let you know how you can maximise the opportunity. It's the Task Management & Time Blocking Podcast...and I'm talking about the Task Management & Time Blocking Summit coming up on March 3-5, 2022.

Ep 6 - Choosing the Best Changes to Your Task Management

There are hundreds of small ways you can improve your task management - just do a Google search. To be efficient, we want to focus our efforts on those changes which make the biggest difference, so we don’t waste time, energy and money. But how do we determine which changes are more important than others? What if we view our task management as a system rather than a set of disconnected parts?
Tune into this episode of the Task Management & Time Blocking Podcast to listen to me and my special guest, Art Gelwicks, as we solve this challenging problem together.

Ep 5 - How to Beat a Productivity Improvement Slump

When you only had a small list of tasks it was easy to make improvements. You took your productivity in this area seriously, and you made some good changes. You expected to continue in the same vein indefinitely.
However, as you moved to the next level, and the next, it seemed to become harder to keep up the same pace of improvements. In fact, you may have felt like you were stalling. Compared to the early gains you had made, now...it was as if nothing were happening.
Tune into this episode as we explore this frequent problem which afflicts those who are most interested in continuous growth.

Ep 4 - My Productivity is Limited By My IT Department. Help!

How do you stay productive when you work for a company that puts in place a policy which changes the way you manage your tasks? You want to be as effective as possible, but if they restrict access to the task management tools you prefer, you need some strategies to prevent unwanted mistakes from happening.
Tune into this episode of the Task Management & Time Blocking Podcast to listen to me and my special guest, Augusto Pinaud, as we solve this challenging problem together.

Ep 3 - Why Failures in Task Management Are Actually a Good Sign

What do problems in your task management indicate?
When your task management system fails, you may feel a sense of letdown. You wanted it to work perfectly. But here you are looking at a reality you never intended.
Most of us would feel some negative emotions like guilt or shame. But there's another approach to take altogether, which is based on a new way to think about these failures. What if there were a way to be empowered, rather than defeated, that has nothing to do with positive thinking. Tune in to this episode as we solve this challenging problem together.

Ep 2 - How Do You Manage Tasks That You Didn’t Create?

How do you manage those tasks which you can't control? You wish you could be completely in charge but there are some which come from  life/boss/spouse/kids/the government that you don't have a choice about.
What do you do about those?
Here on this podcast, I'll tackle this problem with Ray Sidney Smith and we're hoping to gain some insights and possible solutions that will be brand new...all in real time.
A time demand is an internal, individual commitment to complete an action in the future.
 

Ep 1 - What is the Task Management & Time Blocking Podcast All About?

How do you take your task management and time blocking to the next level? With so many bits and pieces of advice out there, it should be easy to figure out a plan of improvement, or at least your next step.
But there's no single place you can trust that will help you come up with your next, best improvement. Here on the podcast, we'll help by first offering up a tricky ask management problem, then exploring a range of possible solutions...all in real time. 
The point is to do more than just offer cliches or repeat stuff said elsewhere. We want to come up with something new...every time!

Trailer - Task Management & Time Blocking Podcast w Francis Wade

Trailer for the Task Management & Time Blocking podcast with a little splash!
 
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