Taking back control of your time

All In The Mind

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Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Our brains are easily distracted or overwhelmed. And that can make getting stuff done harder than it needs to be.

This week, we look at methods and strategies for avoiding unnecessary stress by managing your priorities, your focus, and your energy with organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber.

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0:00.0	This is an ABC podcast.
0:04.5	My goal with writing the book was actually not to produce more productivity porn, even though I'm a huge fan.
0:11.8	I love that term.
0:12.9	Yeah.
0:13.6	Like I find it hard to resist an article that says, you know, the 10 things that the world's most
0:18.6	successful people do before 5 in the morning, I will click on that.
0:21.9	But the world does not need more of that.
0:24.0	What I think we need is more thinking about how can we use our time better?
0:29.4	How can we be more intentional and deliberate with how we use the hours in our day
0:34.4	to live better and happier and more joyful lives and produce better work when we
0:39.9	are working as opposed to how can we get more done and do it faster and quicker and better.
0:47.8	You're listening to All In The Mind, I'm Sana Khadar. And our brains are easily distracted or
0:53.7	overwhelmed. And that can make getting
0:56.1	stuff done harder than it needs to be. I think we are so time crunched. And certainly the
1:03.9	pandemic made things worse. According to research by Atlassian, we're working 32 extra minutes every day thanks to COVID. So time is
1:15.0	pretty precious right now. So today's episode is super practical. Methods and strategies for
1:21.6	avoiding unnecessary stress by managing your priorities, your focus and your energy better.
1:28.3	Everything from the iceberg yes to surfing the urge during stuck points.
1:33.9	What am I talking about?
1:35.9	It's all in today's episode.
1:43.6	My name is Dr. Amanda. I'm... I'll say my full name, actually. Yeah, sounds good.
1:49.9	It's like I'm not Madonna. My name is Dr. Amanda Imba. I'm an organizational psychologist and the host
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