Welcome to the Proctivity Show podcast where we believe that people like you can get the important things done without sacrificing your health, family and things that matter to you.

If it's your first time listening, welcome to the show.

I'm Tam Fam from Austin, Texas, founder of Asian E efficiency, where we help people become more productive

at work and a life. And I do this podcast together with our co-host, Brooks Duncan, all the way

from Vancouver, Canada. How are you today, Brooks? I'm great. Just before recording, I was trying

to activate a credit card and getting all these weird errors. And I'm just like, how is this still

a thing in 2026? We need a credit card

sponsor on the productivity show who does things as well as some of our other sponsors because

my bank is no good. So what do you say that? I recently lost my credit card. I think I left it at a restaurant

where I went for a happy hour. And it was actually faster for me to order a new

card than to go back to the restaurant and pick it up because my schedule is just a little

crazy right now. And so I got it within two days. And activation was relatively simple. I had the

card. I opened up the app. You put it on top of your iPhone where they, you know, you typically do a tap or whatever,

and boom, it was done. So happy to give you a referral. Hopefully you'll give me some credits.

Hopefully, I will work in Canada as well if you need it. So, Brooks, today we're going to be

talking about breaking stuff down. You and I have talked about this topic before where people are oftentimes

struggling with a big goal that they have, a particular objective that they're trying to

accomplish, whether it's in a team setting or for personal. And then they get paralyzed

by this idea of like, oh my gosh, there's something so big that I have to tackle. How do I

actually do this? How do I break it down into smaller chunks?

So we're going to give some different strategies here today. And Brooks has some real cool ideas

that I want him to talk about. But before we start diving into that, we always like to start off

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