The Play Project

PSA: this podcast episode does not contain any content on MRR, my secret 17 step formula to making 7 figures in 3 hours, digital products, starting a side hustle to your side hustle, or anything to do with the usual suggestions you'll find online if you Google 'how to stop trading time for money'.

If you're a booked out service provider and you've hit a time-slash-income ceiling, listen to this episode. You'll learn how to stop trading your time for money and open up more time, more freedom and more capacity - without compromising your income.

Before you listen to this episode, ask yourself this question: how many people have you listened to today?

There's a HUGE roadblock getting in the way of your ability to focus on the things you want to get done - and it's nothing to do with time blocking, how well you can pomodoro or the type of planner you buy.

Completely separate to the conversations and social interactions we have with our friends: we are subjecting our brains to an enormous amount of information on the daily. Social media, podcasts, YouTube, blogs, TikTok, google research - ALL the things are literally coming at us like a torrential firehose every. single. day.

If you're regularly struggling to make decisions, know what to focus on next, concentrate or move forward on your goals - listen to this podcast episode for the unconventional productivity hack most of us are completely ignoring when it comes to getting the things done we want to do.

We're FINALLY starting to see through the transparency of #overnightsuccess as... well... not really being overnight success. While there are always exceptions to the rule, we're really starting to talk about the fact that as a business owner, to build anything, grow anything and achieve the goals you've set for yourself, consistency is the new viral.

So how do you stay consistent when you have 536 competing goals and limited time in your day?

In this episode, I talk about:

- How you can stay consistent and finally start achieving the goals you set for yourself

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How to eliminate distractions for GOOD

It’s happened, petal. We’ve passed the point of no return.

The 2024 halfway mark is upon (and behind) us and besides the sub-zero temperatures inside the homes of Australia (thanks, un-insulation), there’s something else lurking amidst the solo business owners among us.

The looming list of goals we set for ourselves at the beginning of the year.

If you’re anything like me, your goals chart would look a little like this, with some goals sitting in the 100% bucket (usually something instant like ‘cancel Netflix subscription’) (also, said nobody’s goal, ever), some sitting in the 0% bucket (if I hated running for the duration of 2012 - 2023, the probability of a sudden interest in 2024 was slim at best) and most scraping in at about 18%.

For some of you, this might induce a sense of panic, dread and anxiety. ‘Not AGAIN’, we groan, lamenting the thought of yet another’s year passing us by, another opportunity lost.

Let’s hold up RIGHT there, babes. If you are a goal setter, if you’ve been setting and re-setting goals in January, July, December, year after year after year and you’re absolutely done with literally copying and pasting your goals list from last year to your goals list for this year, this is a blog post [podcast episode] that will completely change your capacity to set and achieve the goals you want to achieve. If you’re a free-spirited business owner and you’re finding yourself stuck in this cycle of work sprints followed by burnout (and repeat), this process will help you regain some of that fun, feminine, free-spirited energy you’ve been missing.

I’m going to walk you through:

- Why it’s so hard to achieve the goals we set for ourselves at the beginning of the year, no matter our intentions

- Why motivation (or lack of it) doesn’t matter when it comes to goal setting (and what you need to focus on instead)

- The giant gaping step we’re missing as feminine solo business owners when it comes to goal setting (and the real reason we ‘fail’ at achieving the goals we set)

- The free-spirited four step method I use to reverse engineer and set the goals I want to achieve as a business owner

- How you can apply this to your own goal setting process and start to make your 2024 goals happen

- How this method will seriously change your perspective when it comes to the labels you attach to yourself around ‘failing’

Related episodes:

Do this BEFORE you map your goals

How to actually LIVE your goals in 2024

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If I were a service provider (check) with two kids (check) who wanted to take a week off every single month...

Here's what I'd do.

In this episode, I'm sharing 4 productivity shifts that will allow you to take a week off, day off, afternoons off, whatever you like OFF work - without comprimising the clients you're able to help or the income you're able to earn.

I talk about:

- The major life event that showed me exactly how little time freedom I actually had as a booked out service provider

- The reason you just can't work the way you did in your corporate role if you want to create time freedom in your business

- The 4 steps I would take as a service provider if I wanted to take a week off my business every single month

I'm creating a free mini-productivity audit worksheet and I'm sharing it with you via my weekly newsletter, workless. If you want to arm yourself with the building blocks you need to create your own highly personalised productivity method, visit https://theproductivityproject.com.au/ and click on Newsletter to subscribe and grab the worksheet as soon as it's available.

That's it, guys. I'm done. (And I'm back. Confusing, I know).

In this return to the airwaves episode, I'm sharing what I've been pondering as a result of a big period of reflection on the way I work, my business and how I spend my time.

I talk about:

- Expectations vs. reality when it comes to your time after your start a business

- Why starting a business alone won't solve your time problems (in fact, it might just make 'em all worse)

- The life-changing concept that we're all ignoring when it comes to what's really going on with our productivity (aka why you constantly feel like a mouse attempting to scale Mount Everest)

TW: grief, loss, terminal illness

I'm challenging myself to improve my productivity by changing the way I use my phone over 30 days. We’re at DAY 6 PEOPLE, day 6 and my goodness. PICK UPS ARE A THING.

I’ve ALWAYS had a sneaking suspicion that my phone is a HUGE factor in WHY I’ve increasingly felt like a seagull in a chip factory when it comes to being able to focus on anything for longer than 5 minutes.

In this episode, I spill the terrifying stats on how often I pick up my phone, the ULTRA-powerful productivity mindset tool anyone can implement when it comes to drastically decreasing how much you pick up your phone, AND the 5 phone-terventions I'm implementing to ditch the distraction and improve my focus, concentration and how present I feel.

If you’ve felt your blood pressure and anxiety levels rising while reading this episode description and you’ve been struggling with your focus and concentration for as long as you can remember now, listen to this episode and arm yourself with the 5 INTERVENTIONS I’m implementing this week to WIN AT PHONE-GATE (because it's a competition, guys) and increase my focus and productivity.

A few months in to starting my own business, I felt this niggling feeling that something just wasn’t right about the way I was able to work. How long I was able to concentrate. What I was able to do in a day.

I couldn’t figure out what to do next and I wondered if I’d ever be able to concentrate for more than 10 minutes again.

The Kat story had always included words like ‘organised’, ‘efficient’ ‘productive’.

And for years, I’d been able to operate like a robot because I worked in environments that were designed to cultivate robot-style productivity through years of centuries-old social conditioning.

So when I left that environment and went out on my own?

I spent months chasing the right systems and thousands of dollars investing in resources to help me get the things I wanted to do done.

But none of that made much difference because I was still overlooking one huge component of creating easeful productivity.

In this week's episode, I talk about:

- How to uncover the REAL reason you're procrastinating (and what to do about it)

- The huge transition no one's talking about when you leave your 9-5 and WHY you're finding it hard to be productive

- The ultimate productivity superpower behind all those apps, planners and systems that will completely change the way you work

Hit subscribe for new episodes every Tuesday.

Starting your own business shines a glaring, back of your iPhone hits you in the face style spotlight onto everything you think you know about the best way to work.

In the midst of all this fluffy freedom and flexibility frippery floating around on the internet, what they DON’T tell you is that running your own business or working for yourself will EXPLODE the amount of hours you need to work - if you keep trying to work in the same way you did when you were employed.

In this week's episode of The Productivity Project, I talk about:

- The moment when everything In thought I knew about balancing work and life came crashing down

- Why I still missed my kids even though I had more time with them on paper

- Urgency productivity and why it'll actually STOP you from achieving your goals

- The number one thing the experts aren't talking about when it comes to productivity as a service provider

Hit subscribe for new episodes every Tuesday.