On today's episode we'll talk about our relationship to time management and how it relates to our productivity. And of course, we'll talk about data!

I talk about how time blocking/time management and our routines can often be idealized versions of the ways that we can live our lives. I also talk about some of the cultural beliefs that we have internalized about what we are supposed to be doing. And guess, what, data is a solution!

We haven't been given enough experience and skills to understand what actually does work for us in terms of managing our time. We throw out the baby with the bathwater – we deem lots of our time management as "bad" but actually they are contributing to our productive behavior and might even be productive in and of themselves!

I talk a little bit about a new offer I have, Your Efficient Sustainable Time Management plan, a miniature time study! This information will help us to find the types of things you need to do to be productive.

I'll leave you with these questions to think about:

• Where did you learn what productivity and time management looks like?

• How do you prioritize process over outcome?

• How do you value the things you value by giving them time?

• How do you celebrate the fact that you've done that?

• How do you distinguish between your feelings and perceptions of how things are going and what is actually happening?