Welcome to Live Well Anyway. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. On this podcast, we journey together

in learning how to feel healthy, look good, and plan lives we actually like in the midst of all

the everyday chaos. I'm so glad you're here. And today is definitely a planning episode. It's just

little old me. And we're going to talk about some productivity and planning things because

I'm sure like me, you are inundated with productivity information. Everybody's wanting to be

more productive. And I'm right there too. I want to be getting more done in my life

and feeling like I have my act together and all that kind of thing that I think a lot of us are

striving for. But I have noticed, as I'm sure a lot of you have as well, that the more I look at

all of these different productivity resources, they typically come from either men

who have wives or are single and don't have all the same responsibilities as a mom, much less

a single mom or a mom who is working from home. A lot of them don't have those same kind of restraints on their time.

Or the things that can just pop up in their life that they weren't expecting.

Same goes for all those productivity gals who are single or don't have kids yet.

And they have a lot to say about how to get a lot done but they don't

really know you know what I mean like they don't really know how so much of your day can be

dependent on what is happening with other people it can be from them getting sick to their emotions

to them having homework, to whatever else

under the sun.

You having to run back to the school because they forgot things at home or, you know, there's

a thousand different things as a mom that change about our life from day to day today.

And so today I wanted to talk about productivity from that perspective

of us having to deal with, you know, real life, with real people, and how we can still feel

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