194. How To Be Awesome At Maximizing Your Car/Commute Time
How To Be Awesome At Everything
Lindsay Dickhout
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
To do lists feel never ending and the days feel so short… it's hard. What we've learned is the more intentional we are about everything we do… the more progress we have towards our goals and the more fulfilled we are on the daily and in the long term.
Now this is not to say you have to be fully productive every time you get in the car.  The opposite actually - maybe you need to decompress in silence during your drive… or get your mood going with your favorite loud music… or if someone is in the car with you, spend real non-distracted moments with them (well except for the driving part).
The goal of this podcast is to think of your driving time not just as dead time in your day as you get from one place to another… but rather time when you can make forward motion on things.
Anything that makes you feel good that is intentional, rather than running on autopilot through your day.
Some days we spend so much in the car or commuting - it feels impossible to get anything else done.
-Disclaimer- obviously don't drive and do things unsafely.
-Write on your list night before - what podcast are you going to listen to.
Rather than staying up late and listen in bed- send it to yourself and save for the next day.
-So this is how car or commute time comes into this… as you're writing your to do list the night before… have a little column for "car time."  Maybe its calls you can do (safely) while driving to either be productive or check in with someone you love.  Maybe you know you'll be driving with your spouse or kids and want to figure out something like what someone wants for their birthday or what sounds fun to do this weekend.
-Saves you that last minute scramble.
-The more organized your lists are - the easier this will be.
-Pick things that are idle - listen to a podcast - long calls etc.
CHEERS to making the most out of your day!!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm always trying to maximize the hours in the day. To-do lists feel never-ending and the days feel so |
| 0:05.3 | short, it's hard. But what I've learned is the more intentional we are about everything we do, |
| 0:10.5 | the more progress we have towards our goals and the more fulfilled we are on the daily and in the long |
| 0:15.2 | term. Now, this is not to say you have to be fully productive every time you get in the car, |
| 0:19.8 | the opposite actually. Maybe you need to decompress productive every time you get in the car. The opposite, actually. Maybe you |
| 0:21.6 | need to decompress in silence during your drive or get your mood going with your favorite loud music, |
| 0:27.0 | or if someone's in the car with you, spend real non-distracted moments with them. Well, except for the |
| 0:32.0 | driving part, of course. The goal of this podcast is to think of your driving time not as dead time |
| 0:37.4 | in your day as you get from one place to another, but rather time when you can make forward motion on things. |
| 0:43.7 | Anything that makes you feel good that is intentional rather than running on autopilot through your day. |
| 0:49.2 | Let's go. |
| 0:49.7 | You're listening to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast, where we're obsessed with life hacks |
| 0:55.6 | that make your life more awesome. Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, |
| 1:01.8 | a mom and wife, and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. This concept started |
| 1:08.0 | as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting to get to her kids one day. |
| 1:12.7 | And now it's a podcast. |
| 1:14.4 | Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do. |
| 1:19.2 | Here's Lindsay. |
| 1:25.6 | This podcast is really a time efficiency and a maximizing your productivity hack podcast. |
| 1:33.4 | I'm always looking at the hours of the day and how I can be more productive and get more out of the day. |
| 1:39.9 | And a big part of my day is spent in the car. |
| 1:43.7 | So whether you have a commute, whether you live in a city where there's a subway or a train or a bus, or you're in your car, my goal in this podcast is to give you lots of tips of how to turn this sort of dead time, kind of this time that just gets you from one place to another, into productive |
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