And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this is episode 167.

It's titled How to Get More Done.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

If you Google the words, how to be more productive, you get 187 million results, which is interestingly the same number

results as how to learn Romanian. Bizarre. And although everyone may be learns in different ways,

we all know the answer to both of those questions, really. If you want to learn a new

language, you need to read it, listen to it, and absorb it until you understand it. And the key to

those things is practice. And the answer to how to get more things done is simply to do more things. But is everything really that easy?

Can it be so black and white? No, of course not, because there isn't a single once and for all

solution to productivity. I'm sorry to say that there isn't a specific trendy personal planner or a piece of software or a mantra that you

repeat every hour that will make you more productive. Don't get me wrong, one of those things

might work for you, but that doesn't mean it's also going to work for Jeff next door or your

kids or the undergraduate that follows you around work

like a sheep trying to mimic you. Sorry, folks, no one rule fits all. And the thing is,

becoming more productive is a bit of a double-edged sword sometimes. Because once your capacity

to get more done improves, you're likely to take on more things

or make time frame shorter because you feel more capable.

I've done that recently.

Hence my Monday morning podcast episodes.

Go to patreon.com forward slash Richard Nichols, folks, only a five or a month.

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