CC: Why "to-do" lists are not doing much for you with Madeleine Dore
Life Coaching with Christine Hassler
Christine Hassler
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
So many of us are trapped in a never-ending to-do list, looking for the next solution to make us more efficient. But often what we're left with is feeling inadequate, overwhelmed, burnt out and alone. Madeleine Dore is a writer and interviewer who explores how we can broaden the definition of a day well spent, through regular life experiments and events to examine how creativity isn't just something we do, but how we approach our lives. Madeleine spent five years looking for the secret to productivity, only to find there isn't one. Instead, she reveals, we're being set up to fail. Her new book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today, encourages us to say no to more time management techniques and yes to the joyful messiness and unpredictability of life
Dore has been asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts. She regularly conducts life experiments and hosts events to examine how creativity isn't just something we do, but how we approach our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to Coaches Corner. I've got a great conversation for you today. |
| 0:07.2 | We're going to talk a lot about productivity and creativity. So you may be someone who loves |
| 0:11.9 | your to-do list. You may call yourself Taipei. You like being really productive. You have a lot |
| 0:17.2 | of guilt and like nervousness that comes out when you're not doing or when you haven't finished |
| 0:23.2 | everything on your to-do list or maybe you're on the other side and you're super creative and you |
| 0:27.7 | love flow and you love thinking in visionary ways and then you often have guilt and shame |
| 0:32.8 | that you're not productive enough or maybe you fall somewhere in the middle or a little bit |
| 0:35.9 | of both. You're going to love my guest today. Her name is Madeline Dorr. She is a writer and |
| 0:41.2 | interviewer exploring how we can broaden the definition of a day well spent. For the past five |
| 0:46.7 | years she's been asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog |
| 0:51.4 | extraordinary routines and her podcast routines and routes. She regularly conducts life experiments |
| 0:56.5 | and host events to examine how creativity isn't just something we do but it's how we approach life. |
| 1:02.8 | Madeline spent those five years interviewing creative thinkers looking for the secret to productivity |
| 1:08.9 | only to find out guess what there isn't one. Instead she reveals we're all being set up to fail. |
| 1:15.6 | In her new book I didn't do the thing today. She encourages us to say no to more time management |
| 1:21.2 | techniques and yes to the joyful messiness delightful discipline and unpredictability of life |
| 1:28.0 | and especially these last two years I think that one quality we've all really had to learn is how |
| 1:34.0 | to be adaptable and how to be as my father would say nimble how to just change because things are |
| 1:40.9 | constantly changing. So like I said I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation and get some |
| 1:46.7 | relief especially if you feel bogged down by your tutelist or you feel like you're not doing enough. |
| 1:51.8 | I think this this conversation will be good medicine for you. Before we dive in I want to thank |
| 1:57.2 | my sponsor which is Organify. Love me some Organify. You can get all your Organify goods for 20% |
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