I don't like big picture productivity things so I keep drilling down how is that going to show its face on my calendar

How is that going to take from my time because your calendar doesn't lie? I'm not going to sit there and time block every single hour of my week

and say I do this here and I do this here because that's just unrealistic with how we work and how we live.

So instead of rigid schedules, fluid routines.

I try to give a lot of what I call recipes,

like the actual small things that you can do

that feel good and feel easy and don't feel like this you know restricting overhaul rigidness

but also leave room for what I'm going to do with that time.

So have ever felt like you just kind of going through the motions all day after day constantly busy but not really making progress on what truly matters

most to you?

Like at the end of the day you've checked all of these boxes,

done a million things, but not much of what really mattered to you got done.

And all the typical productivity advice it just feels well great for

someone living in some utopian universe but you're a real life person with all the

things spinning around and it just really doesn't work for you.

Well if that resonates at all you are definitely not alone.

Imagine if you could find a way to consistently operate at your highest level

accomplishing your most important things while feeling energized and motivated and in complete alignment with your core values.

A path to get more of the right things done without sacrificing your well-being or your personal life in the process.

Sounds like maybe a little bit of fiction, but it's real. And my guest today is Laura May Martin,

the executive productivity advisor at Google,

where she has been 13 years,

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