In this cast, we tackle the questions:

What is rejuvenating, re-charging, and rebooting your personal productivity system? And, what reasons might lead you to need a reboot of your personal productivity system?

What are existing methods you know of or have tried for rejuvenating your productivity?

What are some hurdles to be mindful of when doing a rejuvenation/recharge/reboot of your system(s)?

The ProductivityCast team discusses how they view and approach productivity rejuvenation and overcome obstacles to having a well-maintained personal productivity system. Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!

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In this Cast | Rejuvenating Your Personal Productivity System

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Show Notes | Rejuvenating Your Personal Productivity System

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Dunning–Kruger effect

Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie

Daily Questions - Marshall Goldsmith

https://medium.com/@fwade/the-evergreen-guide-to-choosing-your-next-task-management-app-5e4ad21212af

https://medium.com/@fwade/3-superpowers-to-survive-improvement-overload-53a343e695e3

https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/how-one-couple-saved-their-marriage-asking-each-other-simple-ncna833266

http://scheduleu.org//wp-content/uploads/sites/31/files/sites/5/2016/12/Slide1.jpg - graphic of time management system development from childhood

http://scheduleu.org//wp-content/uploads/sites/31/files/sites/5/2018/01/errors-in-execution.jpg - graphic of symptoms

2nd edition of Perfect Time-Based Productivity - http://perfect.mytimedesign.com

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Voiceover Artist 0:00

Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling, productive life? Then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity, here are your hosts, Tracy Smith, and a goose open out with Francis Wade and our gal wicks.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17

Hello, and welcome back everybody to Episode and of productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm recently Smith and I'm joined here with my co host Augusta burnout. And Francis weight is joining us today we are going to be talking about the concept of rejuvenating, recharging. rebooting the productivity system. And so what we're going to do today is really talk about it in three parts. One is what and how do we define the concept of rejuvenating, recharging. rebooting what have you and what might lead a person to go ahead and do that, why you might want to refresh your productivity system. And there's a good reason why you might decide that you know, your system, something about it isn't quite right. And this is an opportunity to kick the tires and make the rest of your year really be on solid infrastructure. So we're going to talk about that, then we're going to segue into what are some existing methodologies that we either know of, or have tried in rejuvenating a system. And then finally, talking about some of the hurdles, one might come into contact with and experience as you try to rejuvenate your system. And therefore, hopefully, we'll be able to guide you around some of those things circumnavigate them, so that you don't experience them as you try to rejuvenate if you do attempt such process. So let's start off with what is the concept of recharging. rebooting? How do you define that idea, and I'm going to throw this out to you a Cousteau. Thank you.

Augusto Pinaud 2:00

Well, you know, the interesting thing was printed, juvenile eating is we tend to think that because we found a solution or on a certain instant, our system that can work for us that working things are going to permanently continue on that way. And the system that we have will work forever.

The reality is that for a system to work, there is a lot of variables that play a factor into keeping this things moving, you know, being the obvious ones are volume, but that there are others like how you are feeling where you are, how much traveling, have you doing, how are yous are you to travel, and how much things are changing on your surroundings that are also going to affect how effective that system is. And once in a while, you need to come and clean the house, you know, clean rejuvenate is no other than clean all those mushy things that make your system less effective. There are many ideas that you can do. And later on, I will share one of those that I do often when I work with people I recommend because it helps revenue germinating your system. I need help getting some of that has come out of it out of there.

Francis Wade 3:34

I have a radical view, I think, which is that there's only a small percentage of people who care about rejuvenating maybe a two to i of the population. If that many who are sort of your productivity geeks like we are. But I think most people aren't interested in rejuvenation, they kind of go along and go along, they noticed some unwanted symptoms. And then they ignore them. For the most part, they go along, go along and go along and they it gets worse. And they ignore it some more. And they go along, go along. And eventually, they only decide to make changes when they problem becomes a cute arose when they start suffering in a major way. And they can't possibly bear it anymore. So I was most, years old. And I was next door playing with some friends. You know, having a good time playing football, soccer, I totally forgot that it was time to leave to go to a big event to see my father receive the biggest award. He had ever gotten in his life. Up to that point. And that time I got home, I was faced with a locked up house car was gone. No sign of life.

So I think I was young enough to decide. I need to do something differently. And I think that's what people don't do anything with their productivity system. Because it. It's too hard to, to change. There's too many choices. Too many know, we have too many options. The only do so when there's some critical event or some long term suffering becomes sort of acute, I think most people don't don't want to do anything.

Raymond Sidney-Smith 5:10

And they try to put up as long as possible. And then when they do something, sort of, when they have, I think they're sort of two camps of people in terms of extremes. And those are probably the productivity geeks, you were talking about. Which are those folks who pay attention, or at least are aware of the fact that there's the space between doing and, and planning, which is that maintenance area. And, and sometimes that requires this kind of rejuvenation, this kind of recharging kicking the tires, so to speak, then there are the other folks who just really don't care. And they I'm presuming they're okay with it, the fact that things pile up and then eventually, it becomes refuse or fires are lit. And there's a chaos and commotion and sort of jumping into action. A lot of things get done, maybe not in the best possible way. But they they resolve themselves in some way, shape, or form, maybe worse for wear. And then they move on to the next blank slate. Now, because that big chunk of whatever it is, is gone. And now they can approach the next part of their world. And so in a, in a kind of a way that is burning down the house because he didn't want to move. So for me, I genuinely believe in the concept that rejuvenation and, and the concept of renewal should be happening on a on a very regular basis as opposed to something that's just sort of a one off. So I really believe in in incremental ism as relates to renewal of rejuvenation. But I do recognize that sometimes there's a really great opportunity to just decide what is it that can be really brought up to a much better state of being. And I think we'll talk a little bit about that today. And, and just so that we're all in the same same page, you know, rejuvenation is, is a really a more of a scientific term in my mind, you know, the idea of making oneself younger, we're using this here, obviously, to talk about the idea of bringing your productivity system up to either the standard which you have its head, set it in the past, right, for some reason, the system isn't operating at full potential that you had had it set at one point in the past for the future. And or you want to bring it up to a new level, right, you want it to do more for you than it had been doing in the past. So maybe you didn't have a reading list, and you know, that you now have a lot of reading that needs to be done. And you need to, to organize and manage that functionality. Well, that would be something that I would consider a rejuvenation of the system, right, you're looking at adding a new component to your personal productivity system. In order to be able to bring it up to a new level, it's now going to help you manage your reading. And that means you may need either just paper and pen to track it on paper. Or you might decide a digital option. But the point is, is that you're bringing your system up to a new level. And in a way that's a recharge or reboot in my mind as well. Do you, do you guys agree or disagree with that,

Francis Wade 8:18

I think, I think people are are aware of

the because the example you gave us pretty simple, I think people are a lot of people are no aware that the the changes that are available to them are complex. So there's a sort of a growing, understanding that it's, it's sure there's simple stuff you can do. But a lot of it is is is very, very tricky....