#95 How to prioritise your work

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Careers, Business, Management

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Emails. Projects. Meetings. The long list of things you want to do and things you think you should do! Our work can sometimes feel overwhelming and difficult to manage. In this week’s Squiggly Careers podcast, Helen and Sarah talk about how to cut through the noise and prioritise your work. They cover tools, tips and tricks that you can put in place to give you more control over and confidence in where you are spending your time so it can make the biggest difference to you in your squiggly career. Head to amazingif.com for resources to accompany this week’s episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Sarah and I'm joined by my co-host
0:07.0	Helen. Hi everybody. And we're back. I feel like we've not gone away but we have had a few weeks
0:12.7	where we've not been recording together. So it's quite nice in some ways to be sitting quite late
0:18.7	on a Monday night. I'm back on the floor in my lounge with my
0:22.5	laptop and a cup of tea in front of me, which feels more like how we usually record our podcast
0:26.4	rather than a kind of swanky studio. When people are like, how do you do it? I'm like,
0:32.3	sitting on the floor in my lounge. Bar chocolate? I actually do have some chocolate in front of me.
0:36.7	In my pajamasjamas,
0:43.3	mainly. So thank you so much for joining us. We hope you all having a really good summer.
0:49.0	Before we get on to today's episode, I think because we're feeling jubilant that we're back together,
0:58.1	we thought it would, jubilant, yeah. We thought it would be good to just talk for a moment about what's inspiring us at the moment in our squiggly careers.
1:04.0	So Helen, anything for you right now that's sort of really helping you with your career and keeping you motivated through the summer?
1:11.6	I am feeling very inspired by the new people that we are bringing into the amazing if team.
1:16.8	So we've been on a very small recruitment mission to find some people to help us and growing things that aren't our forte.
1:19.5	So things like our social media and we found two brilliant people.
1:23.1	I'm really excited to start working with and you could already see through like, I don't
1:26.8	know, email and WhatsApp chats that there's new ideas and it brings new energy and I'm looking
1:32.0	forward to learning and because we always had quite big teams when we were working corporate
1:36.6	life and stuff, always had that team. It feels nice that we're now able to grow our own
1:40.7	little amazing if team. So I'm very inspired by that oh that's nice I've um I've
1:46.8	discovered a new podcast which I can't decide what I think about it so it's called the disruptors
1:52.4	it's a BBC podcast about entrepreneurship and they interview quite short interviews they're
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