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And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton.

Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone.

Welcome to Productivity Paradox.

I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 19.

Today is going to be a really fun day because this is our very first Ask Tanya episode.

And I came up with this idea because I've been receiving a lot of emails from

many of you asking me questions about how you can apply some of the productivity tools and

tips and tricks and things that I talk about into your own life. So I came up with a little form

for people to fill out and then every now and then we'll do another one of these Ask Tanya episodes.

So I'll try to tackle as many of these questions as I possibly can in our 20 minutes together.

Whatever I don't tackle, I'll save for the next episode.

So let's go ahead and get started.

My first question is from Arumi, who's in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.

And she asked, what's your advice for being productive in a hectic environment, when you can't

plan because you get asked tons of things during the day?

That's a great question, because hectic environments make everything feel so much more urgent,

so it's really easy to fall into that trap of tackling those things first.

As I've mentioned before, there's a big difference between urgent and important.

It's just that those urgent items are ringing out like a five alarm fire.

So they tend to get our attention first. And when you're dealing with urgent tasks,

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