034: Ask Tonya: Customizing Systems to Your Lifestyle
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
How do we create and implement systems so that they are personalized and actually work for our environment? I'm answering listener questions about keeping up with systems when life happens or urgent items get in the way. In today's episode, you'll be able to relate to these real-life questions and examples of how you can maintain your customized systems with good habits through using actionable strategies.
What's In This Episode:
• How to maintain customized systems when your schedule is inconsistent or hectic.
• Using your mission statement for daily planning to push you to your overall goals.
• How productivity is about making time for yourself and hobbies, not just getting more done.
• Ways to talk to your employer/manager about a monotasking system in the workplace with boundaries and without distractions.
• How to implement organizing, cleaning and productivity into your household with spouses and children.
Ask questions for future Listener Q&A episodes at inkwellpress.com/question
Transcript
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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 inkwellpress.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. |
| 0:21.2 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 34. |
| 0:27.5 | Now, last week in our episode where we talked all about why to-do lists don't work, |
| 0:33.3 | I told you that this week we were going to be talking about my favorite topic, automations. |
| 0:39.9 | But I changed things a little bit. |
| 0:42.3 | And let me tell you why. |
| 0:43.7 | I've noticed that I've been getting a lot of questions about systems and how they work |
| 0:48.3 | and how you make systems work for you. |
| 0:50.9 | And I thought, you know what? |
| 0:52.2 | We need to take a little break. |
| 0:53.4 | And I'd like to do an |
| 0:55.0 | ask Tanya episode where I answer some of these questions to give you a little bit of an idea of |
| 0:59.8 | how you can make these systems really work for you in your life. So we'll pick back up with |
| 1:04.5 | automations next week. And that's what I really love about this community, where we're talking |
| 1:10.2 | all about productivity. |
| 1:12.1 | I'm able to really listen when you have questions and try to see if I can answer them so you can start applying it in your own life. |
| 1:20.3 | So let's go ahead and get started. |
| 1:22.1 | I'll get through as many questions as I can, all while trying to keep this to our regular 20-minute episode. |
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