How We Get Stuff Done
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Get your checklist ready, let's get stuff done! We share our strategies for being productive, calendaring, and to-do lists. Plus, how we motivate ourselves when we really don't want to do anything.
For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're sharing what stuff we're not getting done.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. In every episode, we bring our different |
| 0:08.5 | perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. We started this show |
| 0:13.5 | years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh about |
| 0:18.1 | yet. Okay, friends, if you need some to-do list motivation, we've |
| 0:23.7 | got you. Today, we're talking about how we get stuff done. We'll talk about how we use routines |
| 0:29.5 | and scheduling, how we motivate ourselves, and how we tackle things we don't want to do. For |
| 0:35.3 | friends of the show on Patreon, we're being real honest and |
| 0:38.1 | sharing the kinds of things that we don't get done because there's some of that too. |
| 0:42.8 | Okay, let's start with to-do lists, prioritizing, and calendaring. How do each of these come into |
| 0:49.2 | play for you and what specific tools are you using lately? Okay. This is like a lot to break down. |
| 0:55.3 | It is a lot. |
| 0:56.3 | Okay. |
| 0:57.0 | Let me think about this from it. |
| 0:58.5 | Okay. |
| 0:58.7 | So first of all, we have, I use a Google calendar, but that's mostly for just like |
| 1:03.9 | appointments. |
| 1:05.1 | Okay. |
| 1:05.9 | Like things that I have to be somewhere at a certain time or someone in my family |
| 1:09.9 | has to be somewhere at a certain time. And in my family has to be somewhere at a certain |
| 1:11.1 | time. And then Jeremiah and I share that so we can see, you know, if the girls have a performance or |
| 1:17.1 | something on doctor's appointment, whatever, I can see when his work trips are, that kind of thing. |
| 1:22.1 | And then, and mostly I like that because I don't do a ton of like real planning in there, but it's |
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