The Intentional Advantage

Author and speaker, Gretchen Rubin discusses how we can live happier lives by creating good habits through knowing ourselves. We often think it's too difficult not only to create good habits, but to keep up with them as well. By using Gretchen's quiz on The Four Tendencies and being aware of loopholes you may use, you'll be able to cultivate systems and habits that work for you and your lifestyle. What's In This Episode: • Learn the Four Tendencies Framework: Figure out if you're an Upholder, Questioner, Obliger or Rebel so that you can learn how to best create good habits • Discover ten different loopholes you may be using to get out of your good habits. • Hear the Story of the Growing Heap - How 'one coin' can affect your consistency of good or bad habits. • How to create habits for tasks that aren't always easy or black and white. • One action item from Gretchen that you can do today to successfully create YOUR good habits. Join our free community at inkwellpress.com/group

Cultivating good habits doesn't happen magically or right away. It's not about disciplining yourself so that you're forcing routines into your life, and that's what so many of us try to do. Today, you'll learn the easy but effective formula for creating habits AND sticking to them. I'm also giving you steps to changing those bad habits you've been wanting to break for so long so that you have more room to focus on your personalized systems and good habits. What's In This Episode: • How your brain works differently with discipline versus habits. • The easy formula for creating habits. • Real-life examples of how you can get started on creating habits by starting small. • Top tips for cultivating good habits into great routines. • Learn how to get rid of those bad habits you've always wanted to change. Join our free community at inkwellpress.com/group

Discover why "eating the frog," or getting your most dreaded or biggest task done first thing in the morning, is actually a bad idea and a device for procrastination. Instead, I'm sharing ways you can keep moving forward on goals you set, no matter how big. After listening to today's episode, you'll feel empowered to create a plan for yourself, instead of mindlessly completing insignificant tasks or procrastinating your progress to the finish line. What's In This Episode: • Why the system of 'eating the frog' doesn't work for productivity. • The formula you need instead of discipline in order to get tasks done and goals accomplished. • Big benefits to making plans and celebrating your wins. • How to make sure you don't become burnt out at the end of the day or week. • Creating successful days full of momentum and progress. Join our free FB group at inkwellpress.com/group

Start saving yourself time and work smarter through batching your tasks. Today, I'm discussing how you can categorize tasks so you can implement a simple strategy to help you stay focused and work with intention. After today's episode, you'll be ready to begin producing higher quality work in less time.

What's In This Episode:

• Why you need to work with intention - the natural way your brain WANTS to work. • The two categories you can use to easily batch tasks. • Actionable steps to creating a plan for batching task so that your goal is completed. • Think you don't have enough time to focus on batching tasks? I'm giving real-life examples and tips for how you can minimize or stop distractions. • Examples of tasks you can batch starting today.

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Perfectionism can take over when we're trying complete tasks - from small projects to our biggest goals. Today I'm discussing the signs we should look out for to know whether or not we really may be perfectionists and how that cycle can be broken. With these 5 actionable strategies, you'll be able to let go and walk away from your perfectionist mindset once and for all.

What's In This Episode:

• Why we go after perfectionism in the different areas of our lives and the cycle of it. • How learning from your mistakes creates a better system for yourself. • Signs and examples of how you can know if you're a perfectionist. • Why we need to "stop smashing our marble jar." • Tips to creating a healthier mindset instead of keeping the cycle of a perfectionist one. • How high-stress perfectionism can affect your mental health

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How do you accomplish your big goals and tasks? Start by eating the elephant! Using systems, like this and others will positively affect productivity, relationships and overall goals. In today's episode, learn exactly what systems are and how to personalize them for you and your environment.

What's In This Episode:

• Discover how to be more proactive instead of reactive with your systems. • How to customize your system to work for you and your environment. • Why you should Eat the Elephant: take bite-sized steps toward goals. • Actionable tactics you can use to break down big tasks, projects and events.

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Do you get to Sunday night and wonder where the weekend went? We just need to streamline your Saturdays and Sundays for success so you can actually enjoy your time. We often feel the need to work throughout our weekend, but in today's episode I'm giving 5 tips on how to combat working on the weekend. I'll also share research on why it's important to take this time off so you can maximize your productivity for the week ahead.

What's In This Episode: • How to cut back on weekend work, emails, texts, to-dos and more using my 5 easy and actionable strategies • Learn to consistently make the most of your weekends by streamlining Saturday and Sunday for success. • See what the newest research and studies say about how our brain, health and productivity are affected by working weekends. • Steps to creating good habits on the weekend so that you work less and spend more time on the right tasks and people. • Why you need to create hours of availability and hours of business (and the big difference between the two!)

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Eliminate end-of-the-week burnout and make every Friday your most successful and rewarding day of the week. Using streamlining strategies for planning your tasks, obligations and projects will allow you to ease into the weekend. Friday no longer has to be the most unproductive day of the week - let's make it successful, productive AND relaxing!

What's In This Episode:

• Learn how to set up Friday for the ultimate day of success.
• How to streamline tasks, projects and more to avoid the Friday burnout.
• Discover top trends to look out for at the office that contribute to Friday burnout and how to combat them
• Begin to implement clear boundaries between work and life

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Many times our priorities and the tasks that are truly important to us get pushed aside. The urgent tasks call out to us and we end up prioritizing those instead of our goals. By using my priority levels system, you will achieve more because you'll schedule in those personal priorities - both big and small.

What's In This Episode: • Learn how Calee Lee used two unplanned hours in her day to create a 7 figure business. • How to attain the mindset that will move you towards real success & productivity. • Implementing an easy priority system that allows you to schedule the tasks and events that are important to YOU. • How I schedule my business around stages of life that works for my family and me.

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Laura Vanderkam, author of I Know How She Does It, shares her strategies from her research on how women who have a career and family make time for both. We're discussing how tracking your time and managing it is key to living the best, healthiest and most fulfilling life possible. Learn about the "scripts" we tell ourselves when it comes to how we manage time.

What's In This Episode:

• Laura discusses the idea behind her book "I Know How She Does it."
• Take a look inside how women allocate their time to both careers and family.
• See how time tracking can help you live the best life possible.
• Start viewing the week as a whole can help you look at the bigger picture & find harmony.
• Create sustainable patterns toward small wins.

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