Why a Fresh Start is Your Secret Productivity Weapon (TPS608W)
The Productivity Show
Asian Efficiency
4.6 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The thing about scaling a business is it takes the right expertise at the right time. |
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| 0:45.2 | Welcome to the Productivity Show podcast where we believe that you can get the important things done |
| 0:49.7 | without sacrificing your health, family, and things that matter to you. I'm Tam Pham, founder of Asian |
| 0:54.7 | Efficiency, where we help people become more productive at work and in life. And it is Wednesday, |
| 1:00.1 | so that means another Wisdom Wednesday episode where you are going to get an actual productivity |
| 1:04.1 | advice in less than 10 minutes. Now, let's keep it really simple today. Have you ever noticed |
| 1:09.6 | how a brand new notebook makes you want to write your best work? |
| 1:14.5 | Or how January 1st feels like finally the year when you become the person that actually goes to the gym? |
| 1:21.9 | Well, there's a reason for that. |
| 1:23.2 | It's called the Fresh Start Effect. |
| 1:25.9 | Now, even though we're in a different part of the year now, I've been diving deep into |
| 1:30.5 | this book by Katie Milkman, and it's called How to Change. |
| 1:34.1 | And it's not about like New Year's resolutions or setting new goals or anything like that |
| 1:38.9 | that you do at the beginning of the year. |
| 1:40.9 | Where she really talks about is how these moments act like a psychological clean |
| 1:46.2 | slate. They separate the old you from the new you. It's like hitting the reset button on a |
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