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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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Practical productivity for parents: balancing family, home, and business

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life August 14, 2023


Productivity & habits 9
Work-life balance 8
  • Why the mental load of a profitable product can outweigh its income
  • Couples carry stress about home standards neither person actually holds
  • Self-knowledge, not better systems, is the real fuel for productivity

Processes & SOPs

Podcast

How to design events people actually remember — and get more from any event

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life August 7, 2023


Processes & SOPs 8
Customer experience 7
Content marketing 5
  • The details between sessions — not the sessions — make events unforgettable.
  • Bad first impressions at events are nearly impossible to recover from.
  • 90% of event learning is forgotten without deliberate post-event consolidation.

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Time Management Essentials: Building Purpose-Driven Productivity

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life July 31, 2023


Productivity & habits 9
Time management 8
Goal setting 7
  • Start with purpose and vision, not your calendar, to make time management stick.
  • Distinguish boulders (non-urgent but vital), big rocks (urgent and important), pebbles to prioritize ruthlessly.
  • Seven to nine hours of sleep is the ultimate productivity hack most people dismiss.

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Accepting finitude: a saner approach to time and productivity

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life July 24, 2023


Productivity & habits 9
Work-life balance 6
  • Why accepting your limits is more productive than fighting them
  • You are already okay — that belief unlocks real motivation
  • Pay yourself first: do meaningful work before clearing the inbox

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Finding Your Ideal Productivity System Through Energy Management

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life July 17, 2023


Productivity & habits 9
Work-life balance 6
  • Your productivity system must align with your energy, not just your time.
  • Shallow work maintains systems; deep work builds them—both matter strategically.
  • Track weekly patterns to stop borrowing tomorrow's energy for today's tasks.

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Doing to Done: A simple productivity system for overwhelmed people

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life July 10, 2023


Productivity & habits 10
Deep work & focus 6
  • One next action eliminates procrastination better than motivation or willpower.
  • Organise commitments by life roles to make every agreement visible.
  • Work beats: timed micro-agreements that build confidence through kept promises.

Work-life balance

Podcast

Workstyle: designing when and where you work around your life

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life July 3, 2023


Work-life balance 9
Processes & SOPs 6
Management 5
  • Workstyle is not flexible working — it replaces the system entirely.
  • Autonomy improves well-being, and well-being directly drives productivity.
  • Set, project, respect: a three-step method to individualise your schedule.

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Productivity systems, figuring things out, and using envy as fuel

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life June 26, 2023


Productivity & habits 9
Resilience & grit 8
Motivation 7
  • Design your productivity system around your actual life, not someone else's
  • Overnight success is a myth — visible breakthroughs follow invisible reps
  • Jealousy becomes useful when it motivates action instead of resentment

Resilience & grit

Podcast

How cultivating wonder builds resilience, creativity, and meaning

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life June 5, 2023


Resilience & grit 9
Deep work & focus 6
  • Wonder is a mixed emotion available even when happiness isn't
  • A four-stage cycle — openness, curiosity, absorption, awe — rewires your brain
  • Wonder at work drives humility, innovation, and resilience in measurable ways

Identity & self-belief

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Seth Godin on significance, agency, and the future of work

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life May 30, 2023


Identity & self-belief 9
Motivation 7
Culture building 6
  • AI makes every job built on industrial efficiency obsolete
  • Workers want agency and dignity — not pay and ease
  • Tension fuels creative work; stress is what kills it

Resilience & grit

Podcast

Transform anxiety into power through avoidance awareness

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life May 22, 2023


Resilience & grit 9
Identity & self-belief 6
  • Avoidance, not anxiety, keeps you stuck — stopping the pattern creates choice.
  • Map your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to recognize anxiety before it triggers avoidance.
  • Align daily actions with your core values to reduce anxiety and reclaim meaning.

Processes & SOPs

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How teams can stop drowning in work using the CPR framework

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life May 15, 2023


Processes & SOPs 9
Automation & tools 6
Deep work & focus 5
  • Only 50% of work time goes to actual skilled work — here's why.
  • One channel hierarchy eliminates the daily communication scavenger hunt.
  • Meetings have a calculable dollar cost most leaders never look at.

Founder interviews

Podcast

Chip Conley on The Transforming Power of Wisdom and Mentorship

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life April 24, 2023


Founder interviews 9
Identity & self-belief 7
  • Wisdom as scarce asset: distilled experience beats raw knowledge in AI era
  • Metabolize life lessons weekly to turn experience into actionable insight
  • Cross-generational mentorship bridges younger bosses with elder wisdom holders

Productivity & habits

Podcast

How to build and optimise a reading habit for career growth

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life April 13, 2023


Productivity & habits 9
Deep work & focus 7
  • Schedule reading like an appointment or it won't happen
  • Combining audio and physical book simultaneously accelerates retention
  • Eliminating sub-vocalisation can unlock dramatic speed gains instantly

Work-life balance

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Avoiding burnout and building a sustainable creative career

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life April 10, 2023


Work-life balance 9
Time management 7
  • Asking 'am I burned out?' means you already are
  • You can't set a boundary until you have a clear goal
  • Guardrails are non-negotiables — boundaries are just preferences

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