3 Minutes Of Timecrafting With Mike Vardy

There's no question about it: in life you're going to need and want to change gears from time to time. But how do you do it in a way that doesn't throw you off course in the process?

‘The waiting is the hardest part.’ - Tom Petty

I’ve gone back and forth with meditation over the years. Not on that it should be done, but that I’ve struggled to be consistent with it.

It's not always about how much you do, but about the quality of what you do. Yet sometimes quality can suffer in the face of the demands we have from outside forces...and place on ourselves.

There's this idea out there that you should do less stuff better. But what if doing that meant you actually had to add MORE to your to do list first?

Sometimes you just want to get through today. But you need to make sure you have a way to get through every day after that as well.

Ego can get in the way of progress. In fact, as Ryan Holiday says it can be an enemy of that...and much more.

Without rest and recuperation, you're going to be spinning your wheels. And that will take you nowhere...fast.

Stephen Covey said, "I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching." You know what? I believe in that concept as well. And I also believe that it's important to make and take time for teaching.

I'm a night owl and I'm proud of it. If you're a night owl then you should be too.

There are plenty of productivity tips you'll hear coming from me and many others. But there's one thing you can do that requires no additional tools and is something you already take for granted.

While I'm not entirely done with my discussion on integrity yet, I want to draw the association between that and making things from scratch to the forefront on this episode.

"With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt." - Zig Ziglar

Traditions can work both in your favour and against you – kind of like how The Force has both a light and dark side.

I've spoken about "hidden tasks" before but there's a subset of hidden tasks that can be especially deceiving...and dangerous to your productivity and progress.

The word "productivity" starts with the same three letters as two words that can impact it: proactivity and procrastination.

The first of May is upon us and while that may mean one thing for fans of Jonathan Coulton (Google his name with the search term "first of May" to find out more), it means a little something different in my world.

Honesty is the best policy - even when it comes to your to do list and how and where you're spending your time and attention.

There's a difference between a wish list and a to do list. But those differences aren't as great as you might think once you decide to invest some of your attention to that first list.

I've seen the new Avengers movie. This podcast contains absolutely no spoilers but it does contain my thoughts on heroism – and "superheroism" as well.