How To Design A More Focused and Productive Work Environment (TPS291)

Whether you are working in an office or working from home, the environment you are in is either supporting or hurting your productivity - you just may not know it!

This episode is about designing your environment. We don’t mean whether your walls should be “Raspberry Truffle” or what size your baseboards should be — we mean setting up where you work and live so that you are able to get your best work done and be as productive as possible.

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Cheat Sheet:

Brooks and Marmel's top 3 productivity resources for this week [3:05]

How Marmel has put today's topic into immediate practice during recording [6:10]

The productivity boost of having a well-curated workspace [9:53]

How Brooks and Marmel have made difficult corporate workspaces in the past work for them [13:36]

Why "a cluttered desk makes a cluttered mind" [18:06]

What to do if you need to use one space for many different contexts [30:32]

How to minimize digital distractions [33:51]

The power of friction [38:05]

Keep a recurring time to declutter your space [48:06]

Links:

Freshbooks

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