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Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life

How Productive Should You Be in a Crisis?

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life

Erik Fisher

Business, Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.5877 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this brief 15 min episode, Erik takes a few minutes to talk about two previous crisis from his past in hopes of being real about how there is no 'one size fits all' approach to life and productivity when a crisis hits.

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0:00.0

All right now we're going to try and do this in one take, no edits, this is Eric Fisher from beyond the to-do list.

0:06.2

Recently I've been trying to process and think about all the different changes that we're going through right now and I didn't want to come across

0:14.6

as I have all the answers about productivity in a time of crisis.

0:18.9

But that got me thinking to ignore how many things have been shaken up for so many people right now.

0:24.0

Seems somewhat irresponsible as well.

0:26.2

You know I've got episodes that have already that were already in the can and I got to

0:29.6

thinking what's something that's evergreen? What's something that would be worthwhile to come to

0:35.1

for anybody in any time of crisis? And it caught me thinking, I've had other smaller scale crises

0:41.6

in my past, Two specific times. One when I was in eighth grade that's

0:48.8

junior high I was in New York State and my brother went into the hospital with a brain tumor two years

0:53.9

younger than me kind of a shock to our family things were not normal things had to be

0:57.8

thrown out of whack my brother and I were at school all day and then would come

1:02.0

home my parents would kind of trade off or

1:04.8

both go to the hospital to be there. They removed the tumor, but then he was in a

1:09.3

coma for it was right around before Thanksgiving time that the tumor was removed and then he woke up out of the coma right around the time of his

1:17.8

birthday which is in March so a good chunk of time. Family life could not carry on as usual at that time and so we had to change things up and I was in a child role at that time in our family. I was not in charge of anything though I could be responsible to do some things, chores wise and otherwise.

1:35.7

And then the other crisis moment that I want to throw out there is when my daughter was born.

1:39.9

She was born 10 weeks early.

1:42.4

So we're talking the beginning of... She was born 10 weeks early.

1:42.6

So we're talking the beginning of January.

1:45.9

She was supposed to come home on March 15th,

1:49.3

or be born on March 15th.

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