Hello, world.

Welcome to discover your talent to do what you love, number 602.

I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone from around the world who's

discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business development

who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along

their journeys. I'm delighted to bring you today's featured expert, Teresa McCloy. Welcome,

Teresa. It's great to be here, Don. Thanks for having me. It's our pleasure. A few words about

Teresa. Real-life speaker and coach, Teresa McCloy, partners with her clients to stop being productive and do what matters.

A recovering workaholic who was addicted to all the latest apps, software, and best-selling books on productivity.

She's now passionate about helping business leaders and entrepreneurs to assess their habits and execute a real life process to take their everyday

ordinary life to something extraordinary. Well, Teresa, today's topic comes out of your bio with

that great line, stop being productive and do what matters. And I think that's a very poignant

and insightful comment. So take the stage and tell our readers in your

experience why this topic is so important to them in their lives and careers. Well, I think

the word productivity has taken on so many different meanings in our culture and across our world.

It seems to be a badge of honor to be busy. And I know in my life, that was a story of just how busy could I be, how much could I have on my plate, what could I be doing, and how fast, effective, and efficient could I get it done. And I know in my story, it came to a point where I kind of hit the wall, as many of us do, and realized a lot of what I was really being productive in and I was good at it really weren't the things that really were the deeper things that mattered to me.

And so that's where sometimes we just need to stop, step back, stop being so productive.

Productivity is not a bad thing.

But we really need to take that deeper look and that deeper step of are we even kind of being

productive in the things that we really want to do?

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