151: How to Be More Productive, with Tim Stringer
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2014
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Tim Stringer: Holistic Productivity
“There’s only two problems in life. Either you don’t know where you’re going or you don’t know the next step.” -Tim Stringer, paraphrasing David Allen
Tim recommended Tony Schwartz’s book Be Excellent At Anything*
Step 1 – Reflection
- Tim recommends journaling to separate the noise from what’s most important
- The Day One app* is an excellent resource for this
Step 2 – Accepting life as is
Step 3 – Focus on one thing
- A positive shift in one area of life will influence many other areas
- It’s a lot easier to get early wins by starting with one area first
Step 4 – Inspired action
- Work on a specific action for a 90-day period
- Think a strategize about your action like it’s already occurred
Strategies
- Name projects the define the objective
- Due dates only when things are actually due
Resources
- OmniFocus for the Mac* and iPhone*
- LearnOmniFocus.com
- Holistic Productivity Courses
- Holistic Productivity from The Omni Group on Vimeo.
Practical action
- Try journaling for a week
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| 0:00.0 | We all want to be more productive so on today's episode how to do it from a holistic approach. |
| 0:06.0 | This is coaching for leaders episode 151. |
| 0:10.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:19.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:22.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. This is a weekly |
| 0:27.4 | coaching show to help us all be better leaders through improved communication, human relations, and personal leadership. |
| 0:36.6 | So glad to have you back for another episode of the show. |
| 0:40.8 | A question I'm commonly asked by a number of members of our community and also came up |
| 0:47.4 | several times in the recent listener survey that I conducted is about productivity. How do we get it all done? |
| 0:55.9 | How do we manage our time, our resources effectively and still have some semblance of work life balance and all those other things that are |
| 1:05.3 | important to so many of us and yet we are alluded by many times in our day-to-day work in organizations because many of us do have |
| 1:16.6 | responsibilities that require a lot of time and energy and how do we make the right |
| 1:22.0 | choices in order to do that well? |
| 1:23.6 | And that is why I'm really glad to have with us today someone who is a productivity |
| 1:29.2 | expert and in fact has designed a system called holistic productivity and that is Tim Stringer. |
| 1:36.0 | Tim is a coach and has been for many years working with people to help them to navigate not only the technology around productivity, |
| 1:45.8 | but as I imagine we'll talk about in this conversation, much more important than the technology. |
| 1:51.1 | The strategy for how to focus on what's most important and to make |
| 1:56.4 | decisions and take actions based upon that strategy in order to really get the best possible results for ourselves, for |
| 2:04.9 | organizations, and the people that we care about most. And so Tim, I am so glad to |
| 2:08.8 | welcome you to coaching for leaders. Thanks for being here today. Well, thanks very much, Dave, and it's a pleasure to be here today. Well, thanks very much Dave and it's a pleasure to be here and talking about one of my favorite topics. |
| 2:17.0 | Oh, me too, and this is a question I get a lot and you and I were talking a little bit before we got on the line here today |
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