095: Stop Being Busy & Start Being Productive

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Which is better, to fill our day with 40 insignificant tasks that we can check off our list? Or five momentum building, goal setting tasks? Five important tasks will trump any number of insignificant ones any day of the week. Today, we’re talking about shifting our mindset from busyness to productivity. I’ll share why it’s important to be intentional with our time and how to be sure our ‘yeses’ matter.

What’s In This Episode:

Focusing on what we’re doing best rather than worrying about whether we are doing enough
Willful focus vs. automatic focus
How to eliminate distractions, specifically technology and social media
Stop using busyness and distractions to cover uncertainty in our lives
Making choices about how you spend your time & making your yeses matter

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 8 of Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on using productivity not just to do more, but to achieve what's most important to you.
0:11.9	Join Tanya this season as she focuses on planning for success using proven productivity strategies.
0:17.7	To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply go to
0:21.8	inkwellpress.com slash podcast. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone.
0:29.8	Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 95, which means
0:36.5	we're only five episodes away from hitting 100, which is a crazy
0:41.2	milestone.
0:42.0	I'm so excited about it.
0:43.3	I can hardly stand it.
0:44.9	And this season is a season I am really, really excited about because we're talking all about the
0:50.4	different ways we can plan for success.
0:53.0	Because I think planning systems are a real
0:55.8	key part of finding success. Now, on last week's podcast, we discussed how time blocking and
1:02.4	routines enable us to free our minds and focus on what's really important. And this week,
1:09.4	I want to talk about shifting our mindset from busyness to productivity.
1:15.2	You know, we all feel this need to be busy and to fill our days to the brim. We get so used to
1:21.5	that hectic pace that when we have these moments of quiet, you can almost feel unsettling.
1:28.2	In fact, the idea of not being busy can make us feel like we're failing, that we're not
1:34.2	doing enough. But we have to stop thinking of the quantity of our tasks and focus on the quality,
1:41.4	which is better to fill our day with 40 insignificant tasks that we can check
1:46.7	off our list, or five momentum building goal-setting tasks. Five important tasks will trump any number
1:55.3	of insignificant ones, any day of the week. So we have to shift our way of thinking. And instead of worrying about whether
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