A Year in Review & Preview for Personal Productivity

What a year 2020 has been! This week, the ProductivityCast team reminisces on four of our eight favorite episode topics this year (and all eight are embedded below for your listening pleasure), then we discuss thoughts on interests for next year. Happy, Productive New Year! (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/105 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you’d like to continue discussing the year in review, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Art Gelwicks Francis Wade Show Notes | A Year in Review & Preview Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Top 3 listened-to episodes of the year Episode 094 – How Mind Mapping Fits Your Productivity SystemEpisode 070 – On Getting Things Done with David AllenEpisode 066 – Working from Home in the Age of COVID-19 Art’s Top 2 Episode 063 – Email (23:38 – 24:32)Episode 089 – Amateur vs Pro (14:09 – 15:12) Augusto’s Top 2 Episode 066 – Working from Home (47:16 – 47:49)Episode 070 – On GTD with David Allen (16:55 – 17:57) Francis’s Top 2 Episode 091 – Do what you love as a career (23:01 – 25:05)Episode 079 – Detecting and managing burnout (self-awareness that pre-empts burnout) (30:09 – 31:20) Ray’s Top 2 Episode 071 – Personal Outsourcing (12:13 – 13:35)Episode 087 – Automating Your Office (7:50 – 8:47) Raw Text Transcript | A Year in Review & Preview Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is mm:ss (e.g., 0:04 starts at 4 seconds into the cast’s audio). Read More Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life, then you’ve come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here, your host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17 Welcome back, everybody to ProductivityCast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I’m Ray Sidney Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:22 I am Augusto Pinaud. Francis Wade 0:23I’m Francis Wade. Art Gelwicks 0:25 And I’m Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:26Welcome, gentlemen. And welcome to our listeners to this final episode of 2020 for ProductivityCast. I can’t believe it, but we have reached the end of 2020. Quite honestly, I think a lot of us are relieved that 2020 is over and looking forward to at least a better back three quarters of 2021 once we have a set of vaccines in order, and folks are starting to get back to a bit of normal life. And so with that, what I wanted to do today was for us to go through and talk about our most listened to episodes of the year, and then get into our favorite episodes of the year. Each of us has selected two episodes, we’ll play the snippet, and then have a little discussion around why we chose it, whether it still stands, and then go round robin, for our picks. So let’s let’s discuss our top three listen to episodes of the year. And so if you are brand, new to ProductivityCast, this will be really good place to start in terms of listening to some episodes that have been most listened to in the year. And those end up being Episode 66 that is working from home in the age of COVID-19. Episode 70, we did an interview with David Allen, the progenitor of getting things done so on getting things done with David Allen, Episode 70. Then our number one, our top episode of of 2020 drumroll is Episode 94. How mind mapping fits your productivity system…