The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 20 - Your Priorities Are What You Do The Episode at a Glance * Our priorities are what we do, not what we say or think. * Many people struggle with this, saying one thing whilst their actions tell a different story. * So, what priorities are you actually living? * Do these differ from the stories you tell yourself? * Indeed, how do you even know what your t...
Jul 07, 2023•4 min•Season 1Ep. 20
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 19 - Time Defaults The Episode at a Glance * Much of our lives are lived through default behaviour (habits, routines, rituals...). * Such behaviour can become so ingrained that we hardly notice it. * And yet it can highly condition how we allocate our time and energy. To change these defaults we need to consider three questions: 1) What are my time defaults...
Jun 23, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 19
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 18 - Finding Balance The Episode at a Glance * Life is in many ways a quest for balance. * How balanced do you feel your life it? * What part of your life is getting the short straw? * What might you do about it? * In short, where might you benefit from more balance in your life? Further Inspiration If you are looking to develop a system to bring balance to...
Jun 09, 2023•4 min•Season 1Ep. 18
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 17 - Morning Routines & Crafting Your Day The Episode at a Glance * We clearly don't know what a particular day may hold or what might best prepare us for that day. * And yet, it is clear that there probably are ways of better preparing for whatever that day has in store for us. * And that preparation starts with our morning routine. * So what might you...
May 26, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 17
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 16 - How do I Allocate Time? Part II The Episode at a Glance * This episode builds on and works with the same basic concepts as the previous episode so if you haven't listened to that yet my invitation is to do so now. Click here to listen: https://www.tomoleary.ie/the-time-academy-podcast-episode-15-how-do-i-allocate-time-part-i/ * The first key point is t...
May 12, 2023•4 min•Season 1Ep. 16
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 15 - How do I Allocate Time? Part I The Episode at a Glance * Whether we realise it or not we are continually answering the question of How do I Allocate Time? * And yet, are we aware of how exactly we make these decisions? * For example, how will you decide what exactly to do today? * Or even next? Provocative thought from author and philosopher Henry Davi...
Apr 28, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 15
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 14 - How Are Your Physical Environments Affecting You? The Episode at a Glance * Is place important to you? * For example, does it matter where you work? * Is one office the same as another? * In reality, our physical environments affect not only our health but also our productivity. * Just for starters, temperature, lighting, noise and oxygen levels all pl...
Apr 14, 2023•4 min•Season 1Ep. 14
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 13 - Making the World Too Small The Episode at a Glance * The idea of making the world too small is inspired by the poet David Whyte and yet the concept is eternal. * It is about the conversations we choose to have with ourselves and others, and equally importantly the conversations we choose to avoid. * So what conversations are you avoiding? * Where are y...
Mar 31, 2023•4 min•Season 1Ep. 13
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 12 -Doing versus Accomplishing The Episode at a Glance * Whilst often used almost interchangeably, when you start unpicking Doing and Accomplishing you realise that they can lead to two very different life paths. * Imagine, instead of having a to-do list, you had a to-accomplish list? * How would that feel? * The invitation then is to gradually switch from ...
Mar 17, 2023•4 min•Season 1Ep. 12
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 11 - How is Past Experience Affecting You? The Episode at a Glance * We may think the past is past and so is gone and yet we are ultimately products of the past. * Our habits are memories of past experiences, our schedules are past commitments over our time, our thought patterns are ways of thinking from the past. * The past is thus only truly past when we ...
Mar 03, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 11
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 10 - Time Tenses: Past, Present and Future The Episode at a Glance * How much of your time do you feel you spend in the present? * What hold does the past have over you? * In fact, what hold does the future have over you? * Does one of the three tenses have more sway? * A famous Harvard study back in 2010 found that in fact around 47% of our waking hours ar...
Feb 17, 2023•4 min•Season 1Ep. 10
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 9 - To-do Lists and Stress The Episode at a Glance * To-do lists are supposed to be helpful, right? * Sure, given our complex lives, they can help calm our brains, which have a tendency to hang on to the undone and the unfinished. * And yet, for many people they turn into millstones, nagging them about what remains to be done rather than congratulating them...
Feb 03, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 9
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 8 - Urgent vs. Important The Episode at a Glance * The distinction between what is urgent and what is important goes to the heart of any discussion on time and productivity. * In fact, how do you distinguish? * Also let's not forget that everyone has their own sense of what is important and what is urgent. How can we be sure that we're working on our priori...
Jan 20, 2023•7 min•Season 1Ep. 8
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 7 - Resetting Expectations The Episode at a Glance * What do you expect from this podcast episode? * How does it help to build up a mental picture in advance? * And yet that is what many of us do all day by building up pictures of how we would like the future to be. * Despite all this effort, how often does the future play out as we want? So why do we bothe...
Jan 06, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 7
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 6 - Play and Creativity The Episode at a Glance * Why have an episode on playfulness? * What a waste of time! Adults are too busy to play. Right? * In practice, however, if we are too busy trying to crack a problem head on because we don’t have time for seeming idleness we can spend much longer than if we were to take the time to play and creatively explore...
Dec 23, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 6
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 5 - Not All Hours Are Created Equal The Episode at a Glance * Not all hours are created equal and yet we often act as if they are, randomly scheduling activities throughout the day. * And yet this seemingly simple task of scheduling 'what when' can have a direct impact on the outcome. * So consider building a set of questions you can use to increase self-kn...
Dec 09, 2022•4 min•Season 1Ep. 5
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 4 - Hard Work and Morality The Episode at a Glance * The hard work mantra so prized by many may no longer be fit for purpose for modern knowledge workers. * Different attitudes and approaches to work may be more beneficial depending on what outcomes are being sought. * Given the choice - would you prefer to be known for being hard working or for accomplishi...
Nov 25, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 4
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 3 - Productivity and Not Being Enough The Episode at a Glance * Ever feel like no matter how much you do there is still so much more to get done? *For many people, to-do lists are eternal with the focus on what hasn’t been done creating a sense of being incomplete, of not being enough. * Productivity can become about trying to shorten the to-do lists and it...
Nov 11, 2022•6 min•Season 1Ep. 3
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 2 -Thinking About Timescales The Episode at a Glance * At what timescale are you playing? * Playing with timescales allows you to create a vision (set a goal if you like) in one timescale and then focus on process in the shorter ones (habits, routines, rituals). * This can reduce the decisions you have to make on a daily basis while ensuring you make progre...
Oct 28, 2022•6 min•Season 1Ep. 2
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 1 - What Represents a Good Life For You? The Episode at a Glance * This may feel a little off topic for a podcast primarily delving into time and productivity but the truth is that we spend much of our time, energy and attention answering this question in our daily actions. * I would argue that almost more than anything else it truly impacts what we do and ...
Oct 14, 2022•4 min•Season 1Ep. 1
The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. What question do you not want to be asked? The Time Academy Podcast offers a series of short reflections on time, productivity, creativity, accomplishment and much more. I share some of my own insights but most importantly I leave you with some questions that might offer a slightly different perspective. Each episode covers one topic and as befits a reflection on time will on...
Oct 12, 2022•2 min
