027: Eating the Elephant: Creating Personalized Systems
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
How do you accomplish your big goals and tasks? Start by eating the elephant! Using systems, like this and others will positively affect productivity, relationships and overall goals. In today's episode, learn exactly what systems are and how to personalize them for you and your environment.
What's In This Episode:
• Discover how to be more proactive instead of reactive with your systems.
• How to customize your system to work for you and your environment.
• Why you should Eat the Elephant: take bite-sized steps toward goals.
• Actionable tactics you can use to break down big tasks, projects and events.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at Inquilpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:19.5 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 27. |
| 0:27.9 | Today is actually the first episode of season three, and this one promises to be a good one. |
| 0:34.1 | I am so excited about the episodes I have planned over the course of the next |
| 0:39.1 | 13 weeks. Plus, I have a really big announcement that's coming out later on this season, |
| 0:45.2 | and there's a couple of changes in place. One of the changes I wanted to talk to you about right |
| 0:50.2 | away is that I have started taking on sponsors. Now, I really wanted this podcast to continue |
| 0:57.2 | to be a free resource for you to use for activities, exercises, strategies, tips, all those good |
| 1:04.3 | things for productivity. It takes a lot of time and it takes a lot of energy to really put forth |
| 1:09.5 | the best episodes possible. |
| 1:11.7 | And I'm happy to do that. |
| 1:13.2 | But when Fresh Books approached me and offered to sponsor our podcast, I took that really |
| 1:17.3 | seriously because I thought to myself, I only want to promote and align myself with brands |
| 1:23.9 | that I feel strongly about, who I feel really do enhance productivity and help |
| 1:29.5 | streamline parts of your life. And that's what I found with them. So if you're not familiar |
| 1:35.1 | with fresh books, they're a simple way, if you're a freelancer or an entrepreneur, to be more |
| 1:41.1 | productive, to get organized, and more importantly, to get paid. |
| 1:45.7 | So I'll be sharing more about fresh books later on in the episode in a quick little |
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