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
Designing your workspace for focus: sensory factors that drive productivity
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
February 24, 2025
Deep work & focus
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Productivity & habits
6
- Your air, sound, and temperature are quietly throttling your output.
- Coffee shops run at highway decibel levels — and they're not designed for work.
- A 20-minute rest can match three hours of deep sleep if done right.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Unlocking creativity and imagination at work with Duncan Wardle
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
February 20, 2025
Identity & self-belief
7
Culture building
7
Deep work & focus
5
- Why school systematically destroys the creativity every child is born with
- Two words from improv — 'yes, and' — that turn my idea into our idea
- AI will give back the one thing blocking innovation: time to think
Setting and achieving goals with clarity: insights from 52 Secrets
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
February 17, 2025
Goal setting
9
Resilience & grit
7
- Knowing what you don't want is as vital as knowing what you do.
- Daily visualisation — of your day and your future — drives real outcomes.
- A win list and milestone rewards keep long-term motivation alive.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Tidying your mind and space with Tyler Moore, Tidy Dad
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
February 13, 2025
Productivity & habits
8
Work-life balance
7
Resilience & grit
5
- Physical clutter and mental overwhelm are the same problem in different forms.
- Defining 'just enough' forces you to name your values before organising anything.
- Breaking one big project into daily 15-minute slots beats marathon effort sessions.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Optimizing brain states for high-quality cognitive work
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
February 10, 2025
Deep work & focus
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Productivity & habits
7
- Your brain has three distinct gears — most people only use one.
- Intense cognitive work degrades past four cumulative hours, regardless of sleep.
- AI absorbing routine tasks means your job is now the one great idea.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Math as language: embracing productive stuckness
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
February 6, 2025
Resilience & grit
7
Deep work & focus
5
- Math is a language of patterns, not mystical rules; stuckness is the actual work of problem-solving.
- Andrew Wiles spent seven years solving Fermat's Last Theorem; productive struggle yields value even without the prize.
- Reframe stuck moments as curiosity-driven exploration, not achievement-driven failure; let ideas incubate during breaks.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Simple wellness through breathing, hydration, and sleep
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
January 20, 2025
Productivity & habits
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Deep work & focus
5
- Shallow breathing and vertical chest breathing undermine sleep and mood by restricting oxygen.
- Gulping water flushes through your system; sipping slowly over hours actually hydrates cells.
- Proper sleep isn't inevitable suffering—it's fixable through breathing, light exposure, and habit.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Productivity A to Z: Key concepts from A to M
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
December 23, 2024
Productivity & habits
8
Deep work & focus
7
- Why consistency doesn't have to mean daily — define your own cadence
- Intention without attention is directionless; you need both to be productive
- Hustle is a gear, not a lifestyle — use it in short, directed bursts
A kinder approach to time management using the PLAN pyramid
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
December 2, 2024
Time management
9
Productivity & habits
7
Work-life balance
5
- Why starting from future goals keeps you perpetually behind
- Integration beats greatness as the lens for getting things done
- Adjusting and noticing count as planning skills — not just preparation
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How sobriety transformed productivity, confidence and daily consistency
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
November 11, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Identity & self-belief
6
- Alcohol quietly erodes consistency long before it becomes an obvious problem.
- Brain healing lags physical recovery by 30+ days — dry January stops too early.
- Sobriety unlocked career ambitions, confidence, and consistent output for Gillian.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Reconnecting with presence: seven screen-free weeks with Carlos Whitaker
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
October 7, 2024
Deep work & focus
8
Work-life balance
7
- How seven weeks without screens revealed what constant connectivity steals: presence, solitude, and wonder
- Meals lasted 1.5 hours with monks, but only 12 minutes in modern America—killing family connection
- Going back in love with reality beats willpower: Whitaker dropped from 7+ to under 3 hours daily
How Jon Acuff helps teens set and achieve goals
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
September 23, 2024
Goal setting
9
Identity & self-belief
6
- Build a 'best moments list' before asking teens what they want to be
- Most goal ladders have only two rungs — close the gap with tiny actions
- Wrong motivational fuel makes even good goals fail for teens
Work-life balance
Podcast
How to define and live your own work style
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
September 16, 2024
Work-life balance
9
Culture building
6
Processes & SOPs
5
- Autonomy — not flexibility — is what actually drives well-being and productivity
- The nine-to-five creates in-group/out-group dynamics; workstyle replaces it universally
- Set, project, respect: a three-step framework to individualize when and where you work
Seth Godin on significance, agency, and the limits of industrial productivity
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 19, 2024
Culture building
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Management
6
- AI makes efficiency-based work obsolete — only unreplicable humans survive.
- 10,000 workers wanted respect and challenge, not pay or ease.
- Significance is always inconvenient; convenience is the race to the bottom.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Todd Henry on building a daily creative practice
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 12, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
6
Time management
5
- Anyone who solves problems for a living is already a creative professional
- 366 randomised daily prompts beat themed chapters — surprise deepens impact
- Insights without application expire; daily five-minute practice builds lasting intentionality