29: Doing vs. Investing
You can aimlessly do stuff, or you can invest. This week, we chat about some ideas around being more intentional in investing your actions.
Episodes
Process - The Journey to Productivity and Effectiveness
Being productive and effective is a journey, not a destination. You must embrace the process. Join Justin DiRose as he shares his productivity journey in hopes to help you along on yours.
Episodes
28: You are Not Your Tasks
We all have mindsets that work against us. This week, Justin shares about one he's been fighting against: working to feel valuable.
27: Intentionality - Where Do I Start?
If you're trying to be intentional, where do you start? This week, Justin gives a few tips and strategies to get you going.
26: Disconnect For Your Health
This week Justin shares about how we should regularly disconnect to keep technology a tool instead of the place we live for our mental, emotional, and relational health.
25: The Power of Flexibility
This week, Justin chats about the power of flexibility as a remote worker, and some considerations to make about having such freedom.
24: Essential Habits - Saying No
This week we hit our third part of the essential habits for productivity, where Justin discusses the power of saying no. We also have a brief announcement about the podcast at the end of the show!
23: Essential Habits - Regular Reviews
Our second episode in the series on essential habits. This week we discuss the regular review -- daily, weekly, monthly and annual.
22: Essential Habits - Mindsweep
We're starting a series on the essential habits to build for any productivity system. This week we're looking at the mindsweep -- a tactic to clear your brain so you can focus on what's important.
21: Startup and Shutdown Routines
Building strong routines is a great way to up your effectiveness at work and home. Justin outlines his two routines that help him do just that.
20: Physical Spaces for Work
The space you work in is just as important as the systems you use. In today's episode, Justin discusses considerations around a few common work locations.
19: Tracking Time for Work
Time tracking grants some great benefits, but you have to know why you're doing it. Justin discusses both the why and the how on this week's episode.
18: Journaling for Future You
Journaling is a great habit for the now, but journaling also can have big impacts on future you. Justin outlines three ways keeping a journal can improve life for your future self.
17: Productivity as Peace of Mind
Often the systems we want to help us find peace of mind only get us stressed out. In this week's episode, Justin discusses some mindsets on how productivity can lead us to peace of mind.
16: Lessons Learned Working from Home - Part 2
Justin wraps up the discussion from last week on lesson's he's learned working from home over the last seven years.
15: Lessons Learned Working from Home - Part 1
In part 1 of a 2 part series, Justin shares five lessons he's learned in the last seven years of working from home.
14: Managing Open Loops
Justin continues to work through this major life transition, and along the way has been thinking a lot about all the open loops in his life. He boils open loops down to four categories.
13: Bullet Journal First Impressions
Justin gives an update on how he's liking the Bullet Journal after using it for a week.
12: Project Management vs. Task Management
Justin finds himself in a task management (and life) crisis, switches up the show format for the short term, and discusses his options for nuke and paving his system.
11: Picking a Task Manager
This week, Justin talks through the thought process of picking (or changing) a task manager.
10: On Digital Minimalism
Justin discusses Cal Newport’s book Digital Minimalism and how it impacts personal productivity.
9: The Most Important Tasks
Guild member @BrianP has a question we dive into this week: how do you best pick your daily most important tasks?
8: The Perils of Over-Productivity
Justin discusses how we productivity enthusiasts (including himself) can verge on the line of being over-productive and some strategies to avoid it.
7: Check-In #2
Justin gives up on Scrum for OmniFocus, abandons his pursuit of a more full reference system, and gives an update on his struggles with margin.
6: Productivity Systems in the Workplace
Justin discusses four main strategies to consider when approaching building a productivity system in the corporate world.
5: Makers, Managers, and Productivity Systems
Justin shares some strategies managers (and corporate employees) may find useful for their productivity systems in the corporate world.
4: The Big Rocks
Justin wrestles with how to implement margin and discusses some of the ideas he's reviewed to do better to implement it in his life.
3: Check-In #1
This is our first check-in episode. Justin is making progress on his goals, hasn't really figured out what he wants to do with Evernote, and doesn't really seem to use his task manager.
2: What is Productivity?
Description Justin explores the definition of productivity, how it needs to change, and what we can do to better define productivity for ourselves (hint: it has to do with our definition of success). Links Drafts (https://getdrafts.com) Launch Center Pro (https://contrast.co/launch-center-pro/) OmniFocus 3.2 (https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omnifocus-3.2-for-mac) ProdCon 2019 (https://www.keepproductive.com/prodcon/) Mike Vardy (https://productivityist.com) Mike Schmitz (https://faithbasedproduct...