Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
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Beyond the To-Do List is a productivity podcast focused on work, attention, habits, and building a more sustainable life.
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Deep work & focus
Podcast
Digital detox: reclaiming focus from constant connected stimulus
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
May 7, 2026
Deep work & focus
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Productivity & habits
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- One week off social media rivals 8–12 weeks of therapy for anxiety.
- Email and Slack damage focus the same way Instagram does.
- Five concrete detox levels — pick one and run the experiment.
Work-life balance
Podcast
Building monthly, quarterly, and annual rhythms for rest and renewal
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
April 21, 2026
Work-life balance
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Productivity & habits
7
- A seven-hour solo 'desert day' can fit inside an ordinary workday.
- Frustration at not 'getting anything' is the disorder the retreat is treating.
- Vacation, visitation, and vocation are distinct — conflating them costs energy.
Work-life balance
Podcast
How a rule of life creates structure, rest, and intentional productivity
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
April 15, 2026
Work-life balance
9
Productivity & habits
7
Deep work & focus
5
- Your life already has a rule — the question is who set it.
- A 24-hour weekly Sabbath makes the other six days more productive.
- "Work-life balance" is a category error: life sets the terms for work.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Productivity without burnout: choosing agency over the illusion of control
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
January 8, 2026
Productivity & habits
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Goal setting
7
Resilience & grit
6
- Control is brittle — agency is what actually adapts when plans collapse.
- A four-step process to reclaim focus when stress hijacks your day.
- Plan like a menu, not a script — one priority, built-in margin.
How to Decide: Tools for Making Better Choices
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
November 18, 2025
Goal setting
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Management
7
- Good decisions can fail through luck; outcome quality doesn't prove decision quality.
- Asynchronous team feedback beats group meetings for unbiased information discovery.
- Build decision records—write predictions upfront to close feedback loops and defeat hindsight bias.
How belief-first communication creates lasting change
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
October 8, 2025
Communication
9
Objection handling
7
- People reject ideas that conflict with their identity, not their logic.
- The fast brain decides before facts arrive — lead with belief, not evidence.
- Change aversion is risk aversion; de-risk the change to reduce resistance.
Self-understanding as the foundation of effective leadership
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
September 27, 2025
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
6
- 85% of what makes a great boss is interpersonal skills, not IQ.
- Career derailment arrives slowly, then all at once — high turnover is the warning.
- Managing up means acting as a partner, not a subordinate.
Digital organization: find what you need in seconds
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
September 11, 2025
- Disorganized files are a hidden payroll cost — measurable and fixable
- One initiative at a time: finish the files project before touching email
- AI-generated docs accelerate clutter; a folder system keeps it under control
Be the Sun: Leadership Through Positive Energy
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
September 4, 2025
Culture building
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Management
7
Productivity & habits
5
- People gravitate toward positive energy like plants toward sunlight—harness the heliotropic effect for productivity.
- Use five positive interactions per criticism to counter our brain's negativity bias and built-in negative media.
- Hard conversations are sun, not salt, when framed as development and delivered with care.
The Secret Power of Storytelling and Deep Listening in Communication
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 29, 2025
Communication
9
Management
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- Communication is a learnable skill: recognize which conversation type (practical, emotional, social) is actually happening
- Super communicators ask deep questions about values, then loop for understanding—reducing conflict by 80%
- Neural entrainment happens when both people align: mirrored breathing, synchronized heart rates, shared understanding
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Pat Flynn on lean learning: achieve more by consuming less
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 26, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Long-term planning
5
- Learning more is often procrastination disguised as productive busy-work.
- The inspiration matrix audits where your time and energy actually goes.
- Force functions, micro mastery, and power 10s accelerate real-world skill acquisition.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
How to tame dopamine and reclaim focus in the digital age
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 18, 2025
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
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- Dopamine isn't happiness — it's a craving engine wired to pursue the new
- Smartphones exploit an ancient survival system that can't distinguish real threats
- Present-moment sensory engagement is the practical antidote to dopamine hijack
Speaking Memorably: How to Captivate Your Audience
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 10, 2025
Public speaking
9
Copywriting
5
- Escape jargony conformity and use storytelling to make ideas 22 times more memorable.
- Strategic pacing, structure, and deliberate language project confidence and command attention.
- Use analogy, wordplay, and creative labeling—the Magnificent Seven tools—to make messages stick.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
The FUSE pathway: fusing your passions into fulfilling work
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 6, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
8
- Why combining passions beats optimising a single career track
- A journaling exercise reveals what you've always been driven to do
- Passion sustains you through obstacles; interest alone burns out
Creativity is a choice: turning ideas into action
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 2, 2025
Motivation
9
Resilience & grit
7
Deep work & focus
6
- Creativity isn't inspiration — it's a continuous series of decisions.
- Constraints produce more original outcomes than total freedom.
- 53% of successful problem-solvers' time goes to reframing the problem.