Month: August 2018

In Episode 037, we discussed the power of routines in your day, and specifically, your morning routine. In this episode, we cover the evening routine and how to make your evening routine a productivity enabler in your life. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit http://productivitycast.net/038 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 discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | The Evening Routine Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Francis Wade Show Notes | The Evening Routine Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Outlook Skedpal Evernote Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Dr. Roy Baumeister Apple Pencil Goodnotes Remind Me Pro 10 Evening Routines That Will Make You Productive at Work and Life The 4-Step Journey To A Productive Evening Routine Checker Plus Blue Light Blocking Glasses Google Calendar Remember the Milk 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman Raw Text Transcript | The Evening Routine 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 are your hosts, Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17 Welcome back everybody to productivity cast the weekly show about all things productivity. I'm recently Smith and I'm joined here today with my co host Augusto Pinaud how's it going? Augusto Pinaud 0:27 it's going awesome. Good morning. How are you today? Good day. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:31 How's it going, Francis? Francis Wade. Good. Good. Good to be here. So in the last episode, we talked about morning routines. So if you haven't yet listened to that episode, I highly recommend that you hop back over there and listen to us discuss the importance of sort of defining routines. So we defined routines and the importance and benefits of having a routine in this episode, we're going to kind of continue that conversation and switch that to the African noon and or evening routine. No, we're just going to lump this under evening routines, even though it could possibly cover some of our late afternoon activities. And what we're going to do is just go round robin again, as we did last episode, and talk about each of our various routines. So I Francis Wade 1:17 think I mentioned last episode that I plan I make a schedule for the day use a number of tools to do that including outlook sketchpad and I go to my go to my Evernote sort of plan for the week. So the mornings tend to be fairly well executed according to plan. However, the afternoons when everything started was the heck, I lose steam at around one o'clock their boats and going to like a extended crash. So I'd have lunch at about one 130 is my normal routine. And that's probably the last productive for the day because I start early and I, you know, I go full steam ahead until about 130 breakfast, I don't do anything brain related for lunch. Usually, I'm usually watching something on Netflix or fooling around on on Facebook or no one again, I might do better heavy reading. But I usually am pretty tired. And then in the afternoon, I try to stick to active activities like returning phone calls,