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 …
Read MoreEp 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 …
Read MorePersonal Knowledge Management With Zettelkasten
This week, in continuing on our recent episodes about note-taking methods, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art are taking on a closely-related topic of personal knowledge management to discuss Zettelkasten. Don’t know about Zettelkasten? Listen in and learn! (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, …
Read MoreEp 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 …
Read MoreProductivity Labs, Methods Edition—Bullet Journal
Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art art starting a new “series” called Productivity Labs here on ProductivityCast. We’re going to be discussing tools, methods and research we’re experimenting with in our own personal productivity systems (even when they are not what we normally use) so we …
Read MoreEp 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, …
Read MoreNote-Taking Methodologies
In this week’s ProductivityCast episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art voiced their thoughts on note-taking methodologies. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/122 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, …
Read MoreEp 3 – Why Failures in Task Management Are Actually a Good Sign
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 …
Read MoreEp 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 …
Read MoreA Love Letter to Note-Taking
In this week’s ProductivityCast episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art voiced their thoughts on note-taking—the value of note-taking, methods we use, and tips and tricks for taking notes in different contexts. Note: I say that we’re covering note-taking methodologies in this episode, but we will …
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