3 Minutes Of Timecrafting With Mike Vardy

Do you ever listen to your calendar or your to do list? I don't just mean look at it...I mean listen to it. Really listen to it.

I want you to look at your to do list right now and ask yourself this question: Is this to do list doing everything it can to get me to where I want to go? Or is it twisting me around and sending me in a completely different direction?

If there's one thing that you can make an effort to do that will make a difference in the shape of your day, it's develop a way to bring gratitude into it.

Let's face it: administrative work is something we need to do more often than not. That type of work houses the tasks that allow us to maintain the status quo and if administrative tasks get neglected, then we could be in for some trouble.

Awareness is one of the key ingredients in the recipe of personal productivity. But what happens when you lose awareness? Do you lose productivity?

Les Brown said that “in every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.”

New things are fascinating. They have an unknown element to them that can exciting and tempting.

I stopped writing about apps as much as I used to when I recognized that keeping up with them puts me on the wrong side of timelessness.

The tasks on your to do list are usually noticeable, staring you straight in the face as you make your way through the day’s, week’s, and beyond. But there are plenty of them that are hiding from you - and some are hiding from you in plain sight.

Usually those that enter the pro wrestling profession don't start off as managers and THEN enter the ring as competitors. But that's exactly what Diamond Dallas Page did.

How do you peel a banana? Have you always peeled it that way? Why? If you've changed the way you peel one, why did you change?

I used to pride myself on having an excellent memory. But in recent years I've felt that my mind is better at playing tricks with my memories than remembering them.

I'm working on a project that is going to have my focus and attention for at least the next seven months (likely more). It seems daunting at times and overwhelming as well. But it's really not.

I am a big fan of batching tasks by theme or mode. But in some instances you need to know when batching makes sense...and when it doesn't.

There are a few people who believe my framework is far from flexible. But that couldn't be further from the truth.

In a recent conversation with Justin Kerr (author of How to Be Good at Your Job) for an upcoming episode of The Productivityist Podcast we spoke about productive communication practices.

Push notifications are designed to push you towards an app. They are also designed to pull focus away from anything but that app.

I was reading through some quotes from Sir Winston Churchill and one in particular stood out to me above all the others: “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

No, I'm not ending this daily podcast. Instead, I'm talking about teh book by Dr. Henry Cloud called "Necessary Endings."

In this third and final part of my series on what noticing does, I share what the cost of noticing is, why it's important that you understand that cost, and what happens when you don't deal with that cost accordingly.