The Productivity Podcast - Get more out of every day achieve what you want in your Life

Welcome to the podcase... what it is about and what we will be adding in future eposodes

This episode is the second in a 5 part series for Personal Productivity.
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Overview
In this episode of The Productivity Podcast we discuss how “Busy” Kills Productivity.
Why we are often "Busy" but not productive, what we know about this phenomenon of being "Busy" and we look at 4 primary things we can be more aware of.  Ways to get out of "Busy" and into "Productive"


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Productivity Podcast Introduction 

Productivity and business analyst, who's passionate about maximizing everything she does in life and work. Your host, Nancey, priors, founder, and CEO of Leveraged Productivity Solutions. 

She's been taking productivity and efficiency to the next level for over 20 years.

Her work is helping people get more out of their life, their work, and their business, creating more of what they want. 

Nancy Pryor, Host 

Welcome to the productivity podcast. I'm your host. Nancy Pryor.

Productivity is the key to having more of what we want in our life and our business, making the most out of every hour of every day, and to be as efficient and productive as possible. 

We all have the same 24 hours in each day and we can't get more of it, and it can't be replaced. 

On The Productivity Podcast. We're going to be creating a five-episode series for personal productivity. Things that individually in your life can either help you be more productive or things that are keeping you from being productive and how you can work through those and overcome them. They're going to include the following  1)“Busy” Kills Productivity, 2) Escaping an Interrupt, Driven Life 3) Advice from Cheshire Cat, 4) Are you predictable? and the last is 5) Doing Less. Makes me More Productive? 

That's our personal productivity series. Stay tuned and come back in four episodes, two, three, four, and five, as well as future episodes. 

Now we're going to go ahead and get started on how being “Busy” Kills Productivity.  

At the end of the day do you look back and say “I was busy”, but then you look back and also think, but what did I get done? If so you're really not alone. People say “I'm so busy. I feel overwhelmed all the time.” “ I've got a lot going on, but there isn't enough time to get everything done”. 

Does that sound familiar? We all hear the sort of thing all the time and Hey, we've probably said it ourselves, but contrary to what you may think, being busy doesn't mean you are productive. In fact, most of us can relate to times when it seems the busier we are the less we seem to get done sometimes not always. 

Being busy has kind of become a badge of honor. I know in past employee situations before I became an entrepreneur, it was, you know, who stayed the latest at the meeting and who stayed the latest at work and who came in on Saturday. You know, were people really getting more done, or were they just looking like it or trying to look like it?

I'm not sure, but the truth is busy-ness makes you less productive. What is being busy? Well, one thing for sure, it's likely not being productive, effective, accurate, or as creative as you could be. The bottom line is it's not productivity. And in this episode, we're going to examine further the phenomenon and propose four reasons, possibly and methods to get out of the busy cycle and begin really getting things done.

In order to fix anything. We really need to identify what the issue is. So we need to identify what we do, what you do, what I do to be busy. This can be different for different people and for different reasons, we're going to cover four primary reasons why people stay busy and how they do that. And even though it's often subconsciously, it's not intentional, we're going to talk about what they are and how you might be able to work around those if they apply to you. 

The first is multitasking. Do you feel like when you do multiple things at one time or attempt to s