Ray starts out most productivity seminars with a fundamental definition of a productivity system: a dynamic set of skills, strategies and tools, that you adapt as your life circumstances change. And, as you'll hear from Francis in this episode, you have the system that usually developed organically, not out of planning necessarily. So, in many ways, you need to overcome your own productivity system that developed to a productivity system that you have built to match your needs and wants today.
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In this Cast
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Francis Wade
Show Notes
Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.
Evernote
OmniFocus 2
3 Superpowers you need to survive improvement fatigue by Francis Wade
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, Revised & Updated Edition by Peter Senge
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are you ready to manage your work and
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personal world better to live a
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fulfilling productive life then you've
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come to the right place
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productivity cast the weekly show about
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all things productivity here are your
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hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto
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Pinaud, Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks welcome
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back to another episode of productivity
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cast the weekly show about all things
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personal productivity I'm Ray Sidney-Smith
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and I am joined here today by
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Augusto Pinaud and Francis Wade how's it
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going guys great wonderful wonderful
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today we are going to be talking about
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overcoming your own productivity system
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and while that might sound a little
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vague we will explain to you what we are
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talking about very shortly and to do
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that what I'm going to do is I'm gonna
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pass the baton the microphone virtually
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to Francis Francis if you want to
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explain to us a little bit about what it
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means to overcome your own productivity
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system in the context of what you have
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written about in the past which is this
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idea that you have the system you
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deserve could you explain that a little
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bit to folks so that they can understand
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what that really means in terms of
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having the system
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you deserve it sounds terrible there
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might be there's a responsibility issue
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it's not blame its responsibility okay
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that's much better thank you for
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cleaning that up but you know before the
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call Augusto said it well that everyone
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has a system and that system was was it
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didn't just were born with it obviously
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it's something that we developed in
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Consider this: you couldn't have gotten to this cast without reflection. Consciously or unconsciously, you reflected on taking that action that lead you here, right now, preparing to listen to ProductivityCast. But, downloading this episode won't simply, magically make you more productive. There's much more to it. You need to listen to the substance, then reflect on how the knowledge bomb Augusto, Francis and Art drop in this cast will help you. ;) So, enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!
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In this Cast
Augusto Pinaud
Francis Wade
Art Gelwicks
Show Notes
Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, PhD
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
Evernote
OneNote
SkedPal
Todoist
Mind map
Research on mind mapping
Bullet Journal
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Transcript coming soon!
Where do you work best? And for what type of work (focused thinking work, diffuse thinking work, mundane/ministerial tasks, big projects that require multiple modalities, or specialized handcrafting) do you do best in what environment? Creating your ideal workspace is important to being able to be and stay productive. In this cast, the ProductivityCast team discusses the factors and tools to get and sustain productivity in your workspace.
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In this Cast
Augusto Pinaud
Francis Wade
Art Gelwicks
Show Notes
Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.
The Zeigarnik Effect
Digital Bankruptcy
Inbox Zero
Unclutterer
80/20 Pareto Principle
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are you ready to manage your work and
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personal world better to live a more
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fulfilling productive life then you've
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come to the right place
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welcome to productivity cast the weekly
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show about all things productivity here
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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and
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Augusto Pinaud good morning everybody and
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welcome to productivity cast the weekly
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show about all things productivity today
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we have Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks
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with us and with me Augusto Pinaud
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and Ray is somewhere in the world
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missing hopefully having fun or sleeping
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according to the recording time we have
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today we are going to be talking about
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creating your ideal workspace it is
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important to understand what are the
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needs of your work-place mostly or the
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workspace mostly because you know will
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allows you to establish higher levels of
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productivity in that space or if you are
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the lucky kind who can have it anywhere
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anywhere so today we would like to split
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the show in three parts the first part
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will be where do we work best the second
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part were the factors for that
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and finally the effects on having that
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ideal workspace and what you should if
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you should have ownership on it or not
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so how are you guys this morning
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I'm fine a bang I'm doing well it's a
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kind of drizzly day here right now but
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you know mountain about mmm working
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weird work needs to be done so I'm doing
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well how about you been pretty good
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doing pretty good and joined a really
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nice day out of the window so I'm
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working on the home office today and
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record in actually from the home office
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let's start this conversation where did
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you work best my first thought was that
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Is doing more faster really better? When is slow good for productivity? That’s what the ProductivityCast team seeks to find out in this cast on productivity and the need for speed!
Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!
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In this Cast
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Francis Wade
Art Gelwicks
Show Notes
Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.
Weekly Review (GTD)
4AM - Augusto Pinaud
“Effective Utilization” (primarily in consulting)
Ray’s Unschedule video tutorial (based on The Now Habit by Dr. Neil Fiore)
PROCRASTINATION, DEADLINES, AND PERFORMANCE: Self-Control by Precommitment by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch
Francis’s paper, Reducing the Risk of Un-Productive Team Members
Mindset by Carol Dweck, PhD
The pace of life in 31 countries
Reducing the Risk of Un-Productive Team Members
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, PhD
I’m So Busy I Must Be Important
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are you ready to manage your work and
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personal world better to live a more
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fulfilling productive life then you've
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come to the right place
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welcome to productivity cast the weekly
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show about all things productivity here
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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and
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Augusto Pinaud
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welcome everybody to productivity cast
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the weekly show about all things
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personal productivity we are back with
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another action-packed episode of
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productivity cast I have with me on the
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show today
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Augusto Pinaud Francis Wade and
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Art Gelwicks we're going to be talking about
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productivity and the need for speed you
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know I'm a New Yorker as some people
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know and as a New Yorker I'm frequently
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told that I speak really fast and I tell
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them that I just am more efficient with
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communicating but but you know what's
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really interesting about this is that I
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think that I think that there are
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different ways in which at least in
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English people tend to see language
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being communicated faster or slower for
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example the British speak faster than
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Americans they tend to think Americans
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speak very very slowly with a drawl and
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and I'm I've always been curious about
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the the sort of linguistic cultures that
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have developed because of that and but
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today but I really want to focus on for
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us all is really the importance of speed
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in a productivity system that one is
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developing what are the issues that we
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tend to encounter when we when we do go
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for speed over say any number of other
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