Get More Done With the Power of Timeboxing

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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From work to chores to entertaining distractions, there are many options for what you can be doing at any moment in the modern world. We often endlessly toggle between these options and, as a result, feel frazzled and frustratingly unproductive. We feel ever haunted by the question, "What should I be doing right now?" (Or "What am I even doing right now?") My guest will share a simple but effective productivity method that will quash this feeling of overwhelm, answer that question, and help you make much better use of your time. Marc Zao-Sanders is the CEO and co-founder of filtered.com, a learning tech company, and the author of Timeboxing: The Power of Doing One Thing at a Time. In the first half of our conversation, we unpack what timeboxing — which brings your calendar and to-do list together — is all about and its benefits as a time management system, including how it can help you get more done, live with greater intention and freedom, and even create a log of memories. In the second half of our conversation, we get into the practicalities of timeboxing, from how to capture the to-dos that will go on your calendar to how to deal with things that might pull you away from it. We end our conversation with how you can get started with timeboxing right now and have a more focused, productive, and satisfying day tomorrow.

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0:00.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness
0:10.3	Podcast from work to chores to entertaining distractions, there are many options
0:15.2	for what you can be doing at any moment in the modern world. We often endlessly toggle between
0:19.9	these options and as a result, feel frazzled and frustratingly unproductive.
0:24.8	We feel ever haunted by the question, what should I be doing right now?
0:28.3	Or what am I even doing right now?
0:30.6	My guess will share a simple but effective productivity method that will quash this feeling of overwhelm,
0:35.0	answer that question, and help you make much better use of your time.
0:38.0	Mark Zow Sanders is the CEO and co-founder of Filtered.com, a Learning Tech Company, and the author of Time Boxing,
0:45.4	The Power of Doing One Thing at a Time.
0:47.9	In the first half of our conversation, we unpack what Time Boxing, which brings your calendar
0:51.8	and to-do list together, is all about, and its benefits
0:54.6	as a time management system, including how it can help you get more done, live with greater
0:58.7	intention and freedom, and even create a log of memories.
1:02.3	In the second half of our conversation,
1:04.0	we get into the practicalities of time boxing,
1:06.4	from how to capture the to-does that will go on your calendar,
1:08.9	how to deal with things that might pull you away from it.
1:11.2	We under conversation with how you can get started with time boxing right now and have a more focused, productive, and satisfying day tomorrow.
1:18.0	After the show is over, check at our show notes at AIM.IS slash time boxing. Mark Zal Sanders, welcome to the show.
1:37.0	Nice to be here, thanks Brett.
1:38.0	So you got a new book out about a productivity system that you've been using for the past 10 plus years and it's called time
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