Managing the Juggle - Productivity Podcast: Recent Episodes
Emily Cordwell
The managing the Juggle productivity podcast is for those of you who are trying to manage it all. You might be studying, working, have young children, older children, running a house, running a business or all of the above. The topics we cover include productivity, time management, wellness, organisation and small business. With regular interviews from experts in this area. Hosted by Emily Cordwell, who is doing all of the above; working full time as a programme leader for a tertiary college, a student at Massey University studying for her Masters in Education with plans for a PHD, a freelance website designer and host as well as married and a mum of two young children. I am exceptionally organised and have learnt a lot about time management and productivity. Join me as I share and learn more about managing the juggle.Follow Emily on Instagram for more updates @managingthejugglepodcast
In this episode I talk about circadian rhythms and how you can adjust your routine to work with your rhythm. Inspired by the book When by Daniel Pink I talk about whether you are a lark or an owl and that there is a time of day to focus on different tasks. I explain what the term Nappuccino is and how by having one it can help you to be more productive. What is your routine and how can you understand your body clock to make it work better for you.
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In this episode I talk about the top 10 things which will help you to simplify your life to be more productive. I talk about how to make things simpler to make space in your life and mind, allowing you to be more productive. Simple things such as unsubscribing from e-mail newsletters, decluttering, planning your meals, stop multi-tasking and a few more. I give honest examples of how I have managed these and sometimes have completely failed!
1.Unsubscribe from things unroll.me
2.Limit options have less stuff
3.Basic meal plan
4.Make the things you use most more obvious
5.Say no
6.Create a uniform
7.Forget the multi-tasking
8.Recognise the season you are in
9.Simplify your to do list
10. Turn off social media notifications
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Your competition might be the local sports team, the person next to you on the racetrack or even a colleague. But I am not a competitive person, but I have come to realise for many of us our competitor is time. In this podcast I talk about how we are constantly rushing to achieve things on our bucket list. This bucket list of achievements is all too common with long unobtainable things to study, travel, visit, grow and do. Are they healthy or should I just calm down?
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In this episode Emily speaks to Helen Clarke, a Managing the juggle listener and secondary school English teacher who was at risk of burnout. She excelled up the career ladder and was on track to achieve even more. But the loss of a close family member changed her mindset completely. Through tragedy she discovered something which she’d never considered before and found she had a passion for it! She juggled her full-time job with re-training and took the brave move to step down the career ladder in her teaching career and follow her new passion.
She has now found a heathy work life balance whilst continuing with her hard worked career but also discovering new opportunities and passions. Helen shares her story and gives some tips on how you can find a healthy work life balance as well.
If you would like to be on the podcast and share your story, please go to https://emilycordwell.com/podcast/and click apply.
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This week I am talking about motivation, I investigate the different types of motivation and how by understanding motivation you can apply it to your life and find motivation when you really need it. Are you extrinsically or intrinsically motivated? I share what keeps me motivated and how I am more productive because of this motivation. I also look into some tools which will help you to find motivation to stay productive.
I am currently doing my master’s thesis in Student Motivation, so this podcast is killing to birds (as the saying goes). I realised what I was reading applies to everybody’s lives, so I share some theories behind motivation and tips and tricks to keep you motivated.
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I talk to Jo Green the Health and Mind Coach about anxiety and burnout. We talk about the difference between chronic anxiety and burn out and how to make time to reflect within our busy schedule. Jo gives us some excellent strategies on how to manage negative thoughts and shows us some great tools to support us during challenging times. She even gives us an activity we can do when we’re struggling with overwhelm and moments of anxiety.
You can join Jo’s supportive Facebook group here: facebook.com/groups/720743675376609
Find out more about Jo, her workshops and website freebies here: thehealthandmindcoach.co.nz
As discussed on the podcast:
If I wanted to I could……..
Questions to ask yourself when you’re having negative thoughts:
Is it True?
Is it absolutely true?
Is it useful?
Is it helpful?
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In this podcast I talk about some really simple hacks which will help you in your day to day life to be more organisation and forward planning. Really simple things like planning ahead for long weekends, to putting the dishwasher on the night before!
This is a well know saying and talks about planning your future and reaping the rewards. Often this is referred to as long term in the future investing in yourself, examples such as studying to invest in your future. But I talk about it more simply, what areas in your day to day to life can you help yourself by investing in your future and thanking your past self.
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This weeks podcast is a book summary of the book Atomic Habits by James Clear.
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.
In this podcast I summarise the book and talk about how you can use your good habits to improve your productivity and time management. With some easy to follow techniques this book gives clear guidance on how to form good habits and remove the bad.
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You might think that perfectionists are extremely organised and very good at managing their time. However, the reality is, those with a tendency towards perfectionism are actually more likely to struggle with time management.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with paying attention to detail and wanting to do a good job, but there’s a time and a place for perfectionism and trying to be too good when it is really not required can actually negatively affect your productivity and your relationship with others.
In this podcast, I ask, are you a perfectionist? Discussing the traits and I talk about the 3 Ps; Perfectionism, Procrastination and Paralysis.
I give 6 top tips on how to manage your time better if you're a perfectionist.
"Don’t let perfection become the enemy of the good." Voltaire
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In podcast 11 I talked about the book Working Hard Hardly Working by Grace Beverley. The first half was about how to be productive and achieve more. This second half is about how to relax and take that time away, achieve that balance, prevent burnout, but still have it all.
I critique the book and give practical recommendations for how to manage the juggle. Initially redefine productivity looking at it with different eyes from the point of view of Generation Z. Then I go on to talk about how to have it all, manage the juggle and then once you do create that time to do nothing, how do you do it? What should you do.
Not everybody enjoys relaxing in a bath, their version of relaxing might be a 20km hike, I discuss the art of doing nothing and how this works for different people.
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I previously talked about the book Working Hard, Hardly Working and this list stems from this book. There are some good lists in this book, and I thought this deserved a podcast of its own. These are things which I talk about a lot and have read in other productivity books and articles. In this podcast I give examples and go through this list of how it relates to myself and how it could help you.
1. Be aware of how long tasks actually take you
2. Take breaks
3. Take weekends
4. Make your own deadlines
5. Tidy your work space
6. The 2 minute rule
7. Hold and engage in effective meetings
8. Use focus enhancing apps
9. Turn off notifications
10. Commit to a task
11. Listen to your honest self
12. Set intentions for the day
13. Strengthen your strengthens
14. Say no
15. Tasks vs time
16. Advanced to do tables
17. Use your commute
18. Exercise
19. Eat well and stay hydrated
20. Just start!
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This week I interview Chris Lovett author of The Discovery of Less - how I found everything I wanted underneath everything I owned.
We talk about how he became a minimalist and how it helped him to have more time. He accidentally discovered minimalism after selling his things and using it to make money for his travels. Now he has a minimalist mindset he has discovered things like having more time but is also keen not to fill that space with more stuff.
www.lessisprogress.com
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I am back, after taking a summer break touring the South Island a much needed break and release from the long lock down. I have been reading some excellent productivity books and have lined up some exciting interviews and topics to talk about.
I recently read the book Working Hard, Hardly Working by Grace Beverley. This podcast talks about the first part of the book summarising how you should find your purpose, use the best productivity methods and get into a flow.
I talk about my thoughts on this book and how it relates to so many things I talk about. She references some of the top authors and writing on the topic of productivity.
Keep an eye out for part 2 - Hardly working and how self care is just as important as achieving more.
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This week I interview Nicole Coyne from Tikumu Consulting. Nicole works very closely with people – individually and in groups – developing their ability to either grow within their careers or their business as well as assisting with interpersonal skills development. Throughout her career, her work has consistently been orientated around training, people development, coaching, business operations and all areas of human resources. She believes that people are the most important asset in your business, from the CEO to the cleaner – if they are coached, guided, supported and looked after, they will in turn look after the business.
The 3 pillars are:
- Business Strategy or career development
- Self development
- Self care
We talk about how Nicole manages her juggle of family, business owner, tutor and member of the business community. She shares her 3 pillars of goal setting and inspires us to set our goals for 2022.
www.tikumu.co.nz
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In my book summary I talk about the book which completely changed my thinking of managing time and my career.
The 4-Hour Work Week aims to give you more time and more mobility. These are two of the defining attributes of what Ferriss refers to as the “New Rich.” The New Rich have abandoned the deferred-life plan to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now, and Ferriss argues that you can too.
Ferriss states that people don’t want to be millionaires; they want to experience what they think only millionaires can buy. The question, therefore, is how can you achieve the lifestyle of a millionaire, without having a million dollars in the bank? Over five years, Ferriss set out to answer this question and has laid out the key to separating income from time. Consequently, ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’ is not about how to save, or about finding your dream job; it’s about how to free up the most time, and automate your income.
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This week I am excited to interview Brad Aeon Assistant Professor at the University of Québec in Montréal. He specialises in the science and philosophy of time management. I first saw him in his TED talk (link below) and was blown away about his concepts.
Why do we think we can control time?
Why do we always say we have no time?
Where did these ideas come from?
In this interview Brad talks about the history and philosophies of time management and certainly made me think differently, I am sure he will for you too.
Link to Brad's TED talk https://youtu.be/WXBA4eWskrc
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We all know that person who is always "busy" maybe that's you. Are you always busy but get to the end of the day and never seam to have achieved anything. Are you a busy procrastination? In this show I look at the difference between being busy and being productive.
Link to the TED talk which I refer to https://youtu.be/tpnVPybMVJc
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I trialled bullet journalling for 1 month and share my experience in this podcast. Bullet journalling or Bujo is an idea developed by Ryder Carroll who found himself using a multitude of notebooks. The bullet journal includes everything in one place so I gave it go to see if it could become a new productivity system.
I gave a mostly critical review of my experience and how it wasn't going to work for as I miss my digital systems.
Click here to view the mood tracker document which I refer to
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In this podcast I summarise the book Eat that Frog by Brian Tracy. It's a book which I refer to often as the most influential productivity book I've ever read, a small book but with 1 great idea: Eat your ugliest fastest frog first - tackle your biggest most rewarding task which will help you to move closer to your goal first in your day.
In this podcast I summarise the key points and refer to Brian Tracy's 21 ways to stop procrastinating.
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Eat that frog book
Eat that frog workbook
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In this weeks episode Emily interview's Janaina Chaves Aguiar about wellness and how to include it within your busy day. Janaina is a wellness consultant who specialises in incorporating wellness and mindfulness into people's lives. An important topic as we get so busy with being busy that we often forget to reflect and pay attention to ourselves.
Join Emily as she asked the questions we all need to hear to remind our buy selves to stop and reflect.
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
― Anne Lamott
Links mentioned in the show
Calm App https://www.calm.com/
Insight Timer https://insighttimer.com/
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How can decluttering and organising help you to be more productive? In this podcast episode I look at Marie Kondo use her KonMari Method to organise and declutter my own house and discuss how this has improved my own productivity systems. Join me as I argue her method for it's unusual ideas and support the parts which worked for me.
I have included a link to listen to her full book available on YouTube
- I have no affiliation with this YouTube video.
Link to The Declutter Hub Podcast with Lesley and Ingrid.
https://open.spotify.com/
Note: I incorrectly referred to Ingrid at Hilary in my audio, I am sorry I have no idea why!
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In researching for this podcast, I watched a load of YouTube videos and Oh my! There are so many “experts” out there! Everything from minimalistic simple, digital, traditional and even holistic productivity, I learnt a lot, I learnt nothing then I just got very confused!
So this podcast looks into productivity systems; what they are, what do I use and how can I do it better. I am pleased that from my research I have found a few areas where I can improve, and I want to do this with you. But mostly I was shocked at how many different systems there are available!
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Welcome to the Managing the Juggle productivity podcast this show is for those of you who are trying to manage it all. You might be studying, working, have young children, older children, running a house, running a business or all of the above. We cover topics such as productivity, time management, wellness, organisation and small business. Helping you to navigating the challenges which come with all of this.
In this first podcast Emily shares her top time management tips which will help you to be more productive.
Follow Emily on Instagram for more @managingthejugglepodcast updates.
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Welcome to the managing the Juggle productivity podcast this show is for those of you who are trying to manage it all. You might be studying, working, have young children, older children, running a house, running a business or all of the above. We cover topics such as productivity, time management, wellness, organisation and small business. Helping you to navigating the challenges which come with all of this.
Follow Emily on Instagram for more @managingthejugglepodcast updates
Support the show (https://emilycordwell.com/podcast)