000: The Story Behind Productivity Paradox

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Self-improvement, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Productivity strategist and coach Tonya Dalton welcomes you to "Productivity Paradox," lets you know what she brings to the podcast, and what you can expect to learn.

Tonya's personal goal is to help you live the best life you can. She believes productivity needs to be customized and personalized to you, your personal goals, and the way you want to live. In this podcast, she'll help you find and design systems that are customized to you, and she'll do it in bite-sized episodes that are easy to listen to and easy to implement.

What's in this episode:

• Discover why this podcast is called "Productivity Paradox," and what it has to do with a Nobel Prize winning economist.

• Learn how designing your productive life makes your personal priorities the focus.

• Hear Tonya's story: how an epiphany took her from wife and mother to businesswoman and led her to create systems and grow her business to the point where her husband was able to leave the corporate world to work with her.

• Find out how Tonya helps people like you find their passion and chase their dreams.

Key quote from Tonya:

"I believe that when you tailor design a customized system, this is going to free up your time in ways that you never imagined. It will allow you to do more, to chase your dreams, and to feel happier and the end of your days."

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Productivity Paradox. Join Tanya Dalton as she helps you discover your passions and priorities through the power of productivity.
0:08.2	Tanya has transformed her personal productivity mission into Inkwell Press, a seven-figure business that has already changed the lives of thousands of fiercely loyal fans.
0:18.2	To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply
0:22.0	register at Inkwellpress.com slash podcast. And now, here's your host, Tanya Dalton.
0:28.7	Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. My name is Tanya Dalton, and I'm a
0:35.1	productivity strategist and coach. I thought it would be nice to take a few
0:39.0	minutes before you start diving into the episodes to give you a little bit of the backstory
0:43.3	behind productivity paradox and introduce myself. So why is this podcast named Productivity Paradox?
0:50.8	It's a term based off a quote from the American economist Robert Solo.
0:56.0	His model of economic growth, the one that won him the Nobel Prize, has one key takeaway,
1:02.0	that the source of long-term economic growth is technological growth.
1:07.0	However, he's also famous for saying,
1:10.0	You can see the computer age everywhere, but in the productivity
1:13.6	statistics. In other words, technology is important for growth, but the more technology there is,
1:20.6	the lower productivity rates drop. It's a true paradox. And I think the reason for the paradox isn't necessarily just about technology.
1:30.3	It's about the struggle to make systems, like technology, work for everyone's life and having those systems dictate productivity.
1:38.3	So let me rephrase that. It's the struggle to make your life fit the system. And in my opinion, it should
1:46.8	be the other way around. I believe there can be a happy marriage between technology and
1:51.9	traditional styles of productivity. It all depends on you. The common issue with technology
1:58.0	is that it assumes that we all work the same, that we think the same, basically that we are the same, and we are not.
2:05.6	I believe productivity is something that needs to be customized and personalized to you for your own personal goals and the way that you want to live.
2:15.6	And that's what this podcast is all about, finding and designing
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