473: How to Increase Your Productivity by Crafting your Time with Mike Vardy

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🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Mike Vardy discusses how to fine-tune your routine and make the most of your time through mode-based work.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) Why you shouldn’t obsess over productivity apps.

2) How to craft your time with the 5 categories of mode-based work.

3) How to keep yourself motivated and on-track through journaling.

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— ABOUT MIKE —

Mike Vardy is an author, speaker, and productivity and time management strategist (or ‘productivityist’) based in Victoria, BC, Canada. His company Productivityist helps people stop ‘doing’ productive and start ‘being’ productive through a variety of online and offline resources. He is the author of The Front Nine: How to Start the Year You Want Anytime You Want, published by Diversion Books, and has self-published several eBooks, the most recent of which is ”The Productivityist Playbook.” He currently hosts The Productivityist Podcast, a podcast that features insights and conversations surrounding productivity and workflow.

• Mike’s Podcast: The Productivityist Podcast

• Mike’s TEDx Talk: How to Stop Time: My Talk at TEDx Victoria

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Tool: OmniFocus

• Tool: Things

• Tool: Todoist

• Tool: Trello

• Tool: Asana

• Tool: Front

• Website: Lifehack

• Website: The Next Web

• Company: Baron Fig

• Movie: The Pursuit of Happyness

• Book: Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

• Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

• Book: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday

• Book: The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle by Steven Pressfield

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:16.0	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 473 with Mike Vardi. We are talking about how to
0:25.1	craft your time to boost your productivity. So you'll learn one why you
0:28.9	should not obsess over productivity apps. Two how to craft your time with the five categories of
0:33.7	mode-based work and three, how to keep yourself motivated and on track through
0:37.5	journaling. So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the
0:40.5	links to items we've referenced, It's it also meant your job
0:42.6	dot com slash F473. Now here's Mike Story. Mike Vardy is an author, speaker,
0:47.6	and productivity and time management strategist, aka a productivityist based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
0:54.6	His company productivityist helps people stop doing productive and start being productive
0:59.7	through a variety of online and offline resources.
1:02.3	He's the author of the front nine,
1:03.7	how to start the year you want, anytime you want,
1:06.6	published by Diversion Books,
1:08.1	and a self-published several e-books,
1:09.8	the most recent of which is called
1:11.9	the Productivityist Playbook.
1:14.2	He currently hosts the Productivities Podcast, a podcast that features insights and conversations
1:18.6	surrounding productivity and workflow.
1:21.1	Thanks to Mike for crafted some time on our behalf and thanks to our sponsors. Check
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