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This week on ProductivityCast, we have a two-part series being released to discuss Francis Wade's second edition of his book, Perfect Time-Based Productivity! In this cast, Francis explains the development of personal productivity systems in early life and how time demands can better help you identify how to spend your time wisely. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/080 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 Perfect Time-based Productivity from this episode, 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 | Perfect Time-based Productivity, Part One Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Getting Things Done by David Allen SkedPal Kaizen Stickk Perfect Time-Based Productivity: How to rescue your peace of mind as time demands increase (Second Edition) by Francis Wade (Amazon) Perfect Time-Based Productivity – A unique way to protect your peace of mind as time demands increase (book website) Fixed versus growth mindset - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck, PhD Discussion of Mindset at Productivity Book Group Howard Gardner, multiple intelligences and education – infed.org Multiple intelligences The Age-by-Age Guide to Teaching Kids Time Management Zwift Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, et al. Make It Stick - Productivity Book Group Change management Evernote OneNote Notion.so Productive Failure in Learning the Concept of Variance  The 12 Important Life Skills I Wish I'd Learned In School  Last Chance U Micro-goal setting Raw Text Transcript | Perfect Time-based Productivity, Part One 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 And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud. Francis Wade 0:26I'm Francis Wade. Art Gelwicks 0:27 And I'm Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:27Welcome, gentlemen, and welcome to our listeners. Today, we are going to be talking about Francis's second edition of his book. Basically, we're going to talk a little bit about the ability for us to be able to do something that I think is really interesting related to Francis's book, perfect time based productivity. So Francis, do you want to tell us a little bit about your book, first of all, and then give us a bit of a preamble in terms of what we were discussing today on this cast? Francis Wade 0:54Sure. So one of the core ideas which I've sort of run into, by mistake. I always thought there was a perfect kind of big set of behaviors out there then, and you just needed to learn them from somebody who's really smart. And that was my original thought. But I discovered that through the through leading courses that people already came into the programs with habits and practices, they're already using tools, they already have something in place.

Stress is natural. But, when that stress overwhelms us that can lead to not just reduced personal productivity. Detecting and managing burnout is a key capability for highly productivity individuals and that’s what we discuss on this week’s episode of ProductivityCast. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/079 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 detecting and managing burnout from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Detecting and Managing Burnout Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Francis Wade Show Notes | Detecting and Managing Burnout Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Good Stress, Bad Stress by Barry Lenson Mindset by Carol Dweck, PhD Discussion of Mindset at Productivity Book Group “A practical guide to detect early signs of burnout.” “Burnout Prevention and Treatment” “What Causes Burnout and How to Overcome It” “Overcoming Burnout: 10 steps to reignite your flame and shine brightly once more” Ecstatic response (or, “post-traumatic growth”) ProdPod: Episode 112: Overcoming Burnout: Rest and Rejuvenation for Sustainable Productivity Getting More Done - Fitnesses Raw Text Transcript 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 And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith. Francis Wade 0:23I'm Francis Wade. Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:25Welcome, gentlemen, and welcome to our listeners for this episode, where we will be discussing burnout. That is we're going to discuss really the functions of what, what are the pieces of burnout? How do we define burnout? And what are some of the signs that help to detect that you are burned out or that you are seeing someone else who is experiencing burnout because I think that's sometimes very helpful. In addition, we're then going to move on to discussing how we actually manage while in burnout mode. That is, while we're feeling this Explain when we're experiencing burnout, how do we deal with being burned out while we're burned out? And then ultimately, how do we overcome burnout? How do we get out of burnout so that we can get back to being the highly productive individuals that we are? Let's start off with defining burnout. What is burnout? Who wants to try and tackle that topic? First, I think the Francis Wade 1:22most there's an extreme form of burnout. And that's the one people relate to the most, which is when you're physically exhausted physically, mentally, and otherwise exhausted and unable to function. I think it's an extreme position to be in. I think the people who get there usually aren't able or don't have the skill to pick up the early warning signs. So they don't know that that's where they're headed until it's too late. So it strikes me as a function of not knowing the signals, not seeing the early warning indicators, and then arriving in this position on wondering why do I feel this way? What happened?

On this cast, we invited a special guest—our colleague and friend—Jim McCullen, to talk about his email-focused personal productivity system for Microsoft Outlook (and eponymous book), Control Your Day.  (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/078 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 Control Your Day With Jim McCullen from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Control Your Day Email Productivity System Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Jim McCullen Jim McCullen considers himself a productivity hacker, always looking for ways to reduce the effort it takes to stay organized and get more things done. Jim is an avid GTDer and has built a system called Control Your Day that allows Microsoft Outlook users to apply GTD practices to manage their email, task lists and delegated work all from one virtual search folder in Outlook. Jim published his book, Control Your Day, on Amazon which has sold copies across the world and recently published a Udemy video training series titled Control Your Day. Show Notes | Control Your Day Email Productivity System Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Control Your Day (website) Control Your Day (book) Corporate Email Mastery (course) Raw Text Transcript | Control Your Day With Jim McCullen 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 And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud. Francis Wade 0:26I'm Francis Wade. Art Gelwicks 0:27 And I'm Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:25And welcome to our listeners to this episode of productivity cast, where we actually are doing something a little bit different than we normally do. We have a guest today to talk about a system that I've known actually for quite a bit of time now. And and so what I wanted to do was for all of us to have a conversation around learning about a system based in Outlook called control your day. And so to do that, we have the progenitor of that system, Jim McCullen, Jim considers himself a productivity hacker always looking for ways to reduce the effort. It takes takes to stay organized and get more things done. Jim's an avid GTD er, and has built a system called control your day that allows Microsoft Outlook users to apply GTD practices to manage email task lists, delegated work, all from one virtual search folder in Outlook. So Jim published his book, control your day on Amazon. And it's sold copies across the world. And he recently published a course based on that series titled control your day. And so welcome to productivity cast,Jim. Jim McCullen 1:31Hey, Ray, thanks so much for having me today. I am excited and look forward to be able to share some of this information with your audience. Augusto Pinaud 1:38Oh, really, really excited to have you here. I think I met Jim at least virtually many, many years ago in a time where I was leaving on a closed outlook environment.

Our podcast co-host, Augusto Pinaud, has been coaching clients on productivity for many years, and devised a tool that he uses with them to help overcome managing the high-level goals in conjunction with lower-level projects and maintenance/administrative activities of daily and work life. In this week’s episode, Augusto goes into detail on what his tool, Impact Journal, is and how to use it in your personal productivity system. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/077 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 Impact Journal from this episode, 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 | Impact Journal Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Special Offer from Augusto Raw Text Transcript | Impact Journal 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 And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, 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 0:24 And I'm Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:26Welcome, gentlemen, and welcome to our listeners to this episode. We have a treat for you today where we're going to be focusing on the impact journal. And if you don't know what the impact journal is, then you're in the right place. So Augusta Pinaud has created the impact journal, which is a method for being able to a method and kind of a document for being able to help you facilitate focusing on your goals. And so with that, I'm going to actually turn the microphone over to Cousteau so he can kick us off and explain A little bit about what the impact journal is. And then we'll get into the conversation. Augusto Pinaud 1:04They impact journal is one of the tools that are part of the Connect invisible dots framework, you know, and I created this tool, really in reality to us our response of what I was hearing from my coaching clients and the concept of impact. When I show this product or when I do presentations, I always begin there was a definition of what impact is because that's really what this journal is about. And impact is nothing else than the effect of influence of one person thing or action on another. What I notice on my own system, as well as the system of my client, coaching clients and people even highly productive people that I know it is that is really hard for people to keep focus on the direction of the impact they want to realize. So the impact journal is nothing else than a tool to keep people engage with where do they want to go? Raymond Sidney-Smith 2:06I'm interested on behalf of the listeners for you to kind of flesh out for us. What was kind of the, you know, as you were working with clients, and trying to devise the impact journal itself, if you could explain a little bit about what it what it does, in terms of the the, the reading part itself kind of explains the backstory, but if you could summarize a little bit of the backstory,

The ProductivityCast team decided to make a special appearance 😂 at Remote Work Productivity Conference 2020 and we recorded a live show...with a live audience. It was a lot of fun discussing remote work productivity and our reflections after our episode, The Age of Remote Work Productivity. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/076 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 remote work productivity from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | ProductivityCast Live from Remote Work Productivity Conference 2020 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. (Coming soon.) Raw Text Transcript | ProductivityCast Live from Remote Work Productivity Conference 2020 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 And welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud. Francis Wade 0:27I'm Francis Wade. Art Gelwicks 0:29 And I'm Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:31Welcome, gentlemen, and welcome to everybody who is both watching us live but also listening in the podcast. Today we're doing something really interesting and I think it's gonna be fun. We are actually live at remote work productivity conference 2020. And if you missed it, you can head over to remote work productivity .co and check out the video replays. But what we're going to do today is we're going to have a conversation both as the panel here but also with live audience about remote work productivity. And I'd like to move it in three parts, as I've done in actually a panel discussion this morning that we had, but as well in just any discussion, I like to talk about strategies to the technology, and then collaboration, all three sets of practices that really pull together the functions of remote work productivity. And I'm going to start off with some of the my own thoughts here in terms of whether or not I've gotten all the pieces. So I asked this of the panelists this morning, and I'm actually curious what you gentlemen have to think is, as I said, strategies, technology collaboration, Did I get it right? Is it all the pieces and or are they the right buckets? Or, you know, what are the other ones? Now note that the panelists actually agreed with me. So I will start off right now. Art Gelwicks 1:56You know, that's not how this works. Unknown Speaker 2:00All right, so what were the buckets again? Raymond Sidney-Smith 2:05strategies, technology, collaboration. Art Gelwicks 2:09I would add probably a fourth one. And I don't have a really good name for it. So I'm going to call it psychology. Because it's it's the mentality and the mindset that has to go along with it. So you can lay out all the strategies you want, you can have the tech, but if you're not sensitive to the emotional and dq layer of it, the rest of its going to fall apart, because you're going to have a bigger issue.

This week, the ProductivityCast team discusses the tools and tricks for producing content productively. Content production is not just for marketers; it's a fundamental component of many of our job duties. So, producing content productively can really help us save time and garner a stronger reputation among our peers and employers. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/075 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 Producing Content Productively from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Producing Content Productively Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Art Gelwicks Show Notes | Producing Content Productively Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Evernote Dropbox Apple Notes Trello Workflowy OneNote Notion.so Google Drive Ulysses Scrivener Google Docs Hemingway WordPress.org (software) WordPress.com (hosting) Raw Text Transcript | Producing Content Productively 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 And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud. Art Gelwicks 0:27 And I'm Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:24And today, we are here to talk about something that many of us have to deal with on a regular basis. And we don't actually form formalize the process many times which of course, competes with our productive output, and that is our productive output. How do we create content, whether that be for internal purposes, you know, internal memos, if you work at a law firm, you have to do legal memoranda. If you're at a company where you have documentation that needs to be kept, you're constantly having to write including probably email as well where you know, some email requires quite a bit of substantive thought process plus outbound content, whether that's for a blog, a podcast scripting, video scripting, and all kinds of other kinds of outbound. You're writing short guides or ebooks for the company, we have to write a lot of content in our daily work lives, especially in the knowledge worker age. And what we want to do today is talk about some of the the gears that are necessary to make that engine so that you don't have to have your system be so hodgepodge to be cluttered and chaotic in the process of getting your content out the door. And so let's start off with some of the challenges people have with producing content productively. Art Gelwicks 1:42Well, I think some of the main areas that I see consistently are one getting ideas for content, evaluating those ideas and then putting them into a content production schedule. The actual creation of the content itself whether it's writing the article, recording the podcast, The review and approval, especially if you're dealing within a business environment, that can often be one of the biggest bottlenecks to your production process. And then finally, how is that content distributed to your audience?

We had the pleasure of interviewing the CEO of Radio.co and Podcast.co, James Mulvany, about Entrepreneurial Productivity for his 30 Interviews in 30 Days challenge. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/074 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 Entrepreneurial Productivity from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Entrepreneurial Productivity with James Mulvany Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud James Mulvany is a UK-based entrepreneur responsible for launching more than five internet companies. Currently, he's working on:​ ​Radio.co, Podcast.co & MatchMaker.fm. Show Notes | Entrepreneurial Productivity with James Mulvany Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Podcast.co Radio.co Matchmaker.fm Raw Text Transcript | Entrepreneurial Productivity with James Mulvany 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 And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:22And today we welcome to the show, James Mulvaney. He is the founder of radio.co, as well as podcast CO, and we wanted to kind of treat everybody with this interview because we think this is going to be a fun, interesting conversation regarding entrepreneurial productivity. Welcome to the show, James. James Mulvaney 0:42Thank you very much for having me, guys. Yeah, it's pleasure to be here. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:45Absolutely. So tell us a little bit about your, your entrepreneurial journey here because it's very interesting to hear that you have this company radio co that helps people create radio stations, basically online. And then this podcasting platform what got you into this and what led you to here. James Mulvaney 1:02So when I was sort of 1617, I was growing up and sort of finishing school I wanted to originally I was looking actually going into radio as on air talent, you know, as a DJ. And I used to always love music and I used to love listening to the radio, you know, when I was growing up, and I recorded myself on cassette tape and playing it back and all that kind of stuff like nerdy nerdy kid stuff, right? And, and, you know, he, when he got when it got to about 18 years old, I, I decided not to go down that route as a career, but instead I was learning how to build websites and a bit about the tech industry. This was back in like 2005 2006. I then went off to university and I grew a business which was rather than being actually involved in the radio industry, I grew a business supplying services, streaming media services to the, to the industry, because it was obviously an industry that I kind of understood because I kind of worked in radio a little bit. I've done some, you know, work experience. So I sort of understood you know, the value proposition there. Although when I began, I didn't really know what I was doing technically. So I kind of just figured it out as I went along. And yeah,

On ProductivityCast, we talked about the Bullet Journal method, the paper-based personal productivity methodology developed by Ryder Carroll, and tailoring the Bullet Journal method in our own personal productivity systems (as well as managing it in digital environments). (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/073 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 tailoring the Bullet Journal method from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Tailoring the Bullet Journal Method Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Art Gelwicks Show Notes | Tailoring the Bullet Journal Method Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. We discussed the Bullet Journal Method in ProductivityCast episode 037, “What Is the Bullet Journal? How Does It Work?” Some resources to get up to speed: Bullet Journal tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4kueYhGEc8 The Bullet Journal Method book summary Bullet Journal Guide The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll Essentialism by Greg McKeown Goodnotes 3 (iOS) Evernote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBBLPyBndMY Arc Customizable Notebook — A Staples® exclusive Arc Notebook Systems by Staples Everlast Rocketbook notebooks Moleskine mini-notebooks Journey (app) DayOne (iOS/macOS) Trapper Keeper  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym6OYelD5fA Raw Text Transcript | Tailoring the Bullet Journal Method 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 And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud. Art Gelwicks 0:24 And I'm Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:24Welcome, gentlemen, and welcome to our listeners to this episode where we are going to be talking about the idea of how we would tailor the bullet journal method to our own productivity systems. I've been giving this quite a lot of thought recently. And so I thought we would have an episode where we would all talk about the Bujo method and how we would actually use this in our system, even if we don't just kind of how we would so that you as listeners may incorporate some of the skills, some of the techniques that we have developed over time. How we would develop them using the bullet journal method. And so what we'll do is we'll do just a quick recap of boo Joe, to kind of aware of what it's all about. And then we will we will talk about ways in which we can supplement our systems in both analog and digital and we'll go from there. So let's let's start with what is the bullet journal method? art? Would you like to kick us off and tackle the the kind of top level explanation of what Bujo is? Art Gelwicks 1:29Sure at the highest level. Bujo is really the brainchild of gentleman by the name of writer Carol. The bullet journal method is originally started as an analogue approach to keeping track of notes, tasks, activities, and basically keeping everything in one spot.

Over the past decade, Nozbe has become known as one of the best task managers on the market inspired by the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. (We've done a GTD podcast series, and we've recently interviewed David Allen, creator of GTD.) They have now come out with a completely independent product called Nozbe Teams, and as you can imagine it’s focused on small organization productivity inspired by all the lessons learned from their work with Nozbe Personal. We sat down with Nozbe CEO Michael Sliwinski to talk about getting things done in Nozbe Teams--how it’s different from Nozbe Personal, what they learned from users, and what’s on the horizon for Nozbe Teams (now out in beta). (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/072 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 Getting Things Done in Nozbe Teams with Nozbe CEO Michael Sliwinski from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Getting Things Done in Nozbe Teams with Nozbe CEO Michael Sliwinski Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Michael Sliwinski Michael Sliwinski is the founder of Nozbe – a tool that helps busy professionals manage time, tasks and projects – available as a web app as well as native apps for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iPad and iPhone. He's been running Nozbe as a remote-first company for more than 11 years running Nozbe. Now, he's launching Nozbe Teams to help busy managers of small teams get things done together. Show Notes | Getting Things Done in Nozbe Teams with Nozbe CEO Michael Sliwinski Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. #iPadOnly by Augusto Pinaud and Michael Sliwinski Productive Magazine Work From Home: Augusto Pinaud (Facebook Live video) Nozbe Personal Nozbe Teams Raw Text Transcript | Getting Things Done in Nozbe Teams with Nozbe CEO Michael Sliwinski 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 And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:25And welcome to our listeners to this episode, we've got a little bit of a surprise for you all. We don't do this very often. But on occasion here on ProductivityCast we invite a guest to talk about a topic or a thing that we think is really useful. And we're actually really delighted to have Michael Sliwinski here from Nozbe. And and so welcome Michael to the show. Michael Sliwinski 0:47Hi, thanks for having me. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:49Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so do you want to tell us a little bit about you, you have a long standing relationship with Michael, and you want to tell us a little bit about Michael and then Michael can fill in the gaps. Augusto Pinaud 0:59That sounds like Good plan. Yeah, I have the good fortune to call Michael a friend. I met Michael many years ago on a publication called Productive Magazine. And he's been talking about being No Office and Office Free seems at least the last 20 years, maybe more.

What do you do when you can’t create more time, but have more to do? That’s the topic we try to tackle on ProductivityCast. From enlisting virtual assistants to hiring productivity consultants to professional organizers to handyman services and everything in between, we discuss personal outsourcing to get more done. Note: Art Gelwicks was with us for this episode, but unfortunately a technical problem means that his audio is left out of this episode. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/071 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 personal outsourcing from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Personal Outsourcing: How to Increase Productivity When You Can't Make More Time Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Art Gelwicks Francis Wade Show Notes | Personal Outsourcing: How to Increase Productivity When You Can't Make More Time Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. FreshlyHellofreshBlue ApronInstacartRed ButlerFancyHandsLongerDaysIFTTTZapierPlatedBabelcubeFiverr Upwork (formerly eLance)100 Personal Outsourcing Ideas Raw Text Transcript | Personal Outsourcing: How to Increase Productivity When You Can't Make More Time 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 And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud. Francis Wade 0:26I'm Francis Wade. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:25And we are going to be talking this week about personal outsourcing. And this is the idea of how do we actually create more of ourselves? How do we get more done in the same amount of time, as we've talked about many times on the on the podcast before, really doing more in less time is not really the ultimate definition of productivity. For many of us here on the cast. We really do believe in being able to get the right things done with the right effort, the right resources, and so on and so forth. And so it's about having the right direction yet there is a reality that we all need to figure out how to get more done in the time that we're given the same 24 hours per day. And so how do we do that? And one of those ways, is through personal outsourcing. And so what I wanted us to do today is to first define personal outsourcing what it really means to outsource ourselves. And then the other parts are figuring out what types of services are available to us what kinds of things can we outsource to professional professionals and to professional services. And then finally, a little bit of discussion about technology and technology's role, replacing ourselves in getting some things done that we may not need to do ourselves physically, mentally, in the course of our days. So let's start off with defining what personal outsourcing is. I'm going to start with some of the characteristics of determining whether to use personal outsourcing one of the first ones that I think is one of the most important and also the one that people Have to become the most awa...