If you're sick of saying, "I'm so overwhelmed!" this episode is for you. Sam Bennett helps creative people get unstuck so they can do their best work. She's the author of Get It Done and Start Right Where You Are, and in this episode, she gives us her advice for making time for work that energizes you.

Show notes:

Get It Done by Sam Bennett

Start Right Where You Are by Sam Bennett

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Disclaimer: The points of view expressed in this podcast are Kristin Wong and Dara Blaine's and do not represent any other person or entity. The opinions of our guests do not represent our own. We do not guarantee any desired or specific results in connection with this podcast. By listening to this podcast, you agree not to hold us liable for any of the decisions, actions or results in your own life, career or business. Listeners are 100% responsible for any decisions or actions they take after listening to this podcast. Listening to this podcast does not create any sort of counseling, coaching or other relationship. 

When it comes to setting goals, we think a lot about how we want to feel once we achieve them, but very little about how we want to feel while working toward them. 

In The Desire Map, author Danielle LaPorte suggests an alternative: making goals centered around what she calls your "core desired feelings." 

Show notes:

The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals With Soul by Danielle LaPorte.

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Disclaimer: The points of view expressed in this podcast are Kristin Wong and Dara Blaine's and do not represent any other person or entity. The opinions of our guests do not represent our own. We do not guarantee any desired or specific results in connection with this podcast. By listening to this podcast, you agree not to hold us liable for any of the decisions, actions or results in your own life, career or business. Listeners are 100% responsible for any decisions or actions they take after listening to this podcast. Listening to this podcast does not create any sort of counseling, coaching or other relationship. 

Negotiating is crucial for workaholics, who have a tendency to say yes to everything. Negotiating your time, salary, and workload gives have more control over your work situation. And that control gives you the freedom to decide on your own relationship with work. In this episode, we cover a number of strategies for successful negotiating.

Show notes:

Secrets of Six-Figure Women by Barbara Stanny

Tandem Anchoring: Information and politeness effects of range offers in social exchange by Malia Mason

Ladies Get Paid

Payscale

Glassdoor

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Disclaimer: The points of view expressed in this podcast are Kristin Wong and Dara Blaine's and do not represent any other person or entity. The opinions of our guests do not represent our own. We do not guarantee any desired or specific results in connection with this podcast. By listening to this podcast, you agree not to hold us liable for any of the decisions, actions or results in your own life, career or business. Listeners are 100% responsible for any decisions or actions they take after listening to this podcast. Listening to this podcast does not create any sort of counseling, coaching or other relationship. 

Digital detoxing is the default solution to burnout, stress, and overwork. But is disconnecting realistic? And, more importantly, does it truly get to the heart of the problem?

In this episode, we talk to Tim Herrera, editor of the New York Times Smarter Living, about how to stay connected without letting connectivity control your life, why you shouldn't think of your workplace as your family, and what leaders can do to establish less toxic work environments.

Show notes:

• Your Workplace Isn't Your Family (and That's OK!) - The New York Times by Tim Herrera
• When You Track Oreos, Exercise, and Everything Else by Tim Herrera
• Photographic Memory study by Alix Barasch
• Sleep Cycle alarm clock (iPhone, Android)
• Lose It weight loss app (iPhone, Android)

Special thanks to our sponsor, Everlance. Visit  www.Everlance.com/recoveringworkaholics for a special discount.

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Disclaimer: The points of view expressed in this podcast are Kristin Wong and Dara Blaine's and do not represent any other person or entity. The opinions of our guests do not represent our own. We do not guarantee any desired or specific results in connection with this podcast. By listening to this podcast, you agree not to hold us liable for any of the decisions, actions or results in your own life, career or business. Listeners are 100% responsible for any decisions or actions they take after listening to this podcast. Listening to this podcast does not create any sort of counseling, coaching or other relationship.

Is there a productivity trap? Is our culture obsessed with getting things done and checking tasks off lists? Kristin asks her former Lifehacker editors if we have a productivity problem.

Alan Henry (New York Times editor) and Whitson Gordon (writer, New York Times, Popular Science) make the case for productivity...with a purpose. They offer some concrete, actionable tips, like the Daily 3-Task Method, to make sure you don't fall into the so-called "productivity trap." Instead, productivity should be about making time for the things that truly matter to you.

Show notes:

• How to Prioritize When Everything Is Important, Alan Henry
• Three Tasks You Should Do Every Day to Stay Productive, Whitson Gordon
• In Defense of Life Hacking, Whitson Gordon
• How to Turn Your Laziness Into Efficiency, Alan Henry

Special thanks to Everlance for making this podcast episode possible. Visit www.Everlance.com/recoveringworkaholics for a special discount.

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Disclaimer: The points of view expressed in this podcast are Kristin Wong and Dara Blaine's and do not represent any other person or entity. The opinions of our guests do not represent our own. We do not guarantee any desired or specific results in connection with this podcast. By listening to this podcast, you agree not to hold us liable for any of the decisions, actions or results in your own life, career or business. Listeners are 100% responsible for any decisions or actions they take after listening to this podcast. Listening to this podcast does not create any sort of counseling, coaching or other relationship.

Cait Flanders is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller, The Year of Less. Cait tells us how she's learned to stop focusing on the finish line and be okay with a little uncertainty – and how it's helped her career.

Special thanks to our sponsor, Everlance. Visit  www.Everlance.com/recoveringworkaholics for a special discount.

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Disclaimer: The points of view expressed in this podcast are Kristin Wong and Dara Blaine's and do not represent any other person or entity. The opinions of our guests do not represent our own. We do not guarantee any desired or specific results in connection with this podcast. By listening to this podcast, you agree not to hold us liable for any of the decisions, actions or results in your own life, career or business. Listeners are 100% responsible for any decisions or actions they take after listening to this podcast. Listening to this podcast does not create any sort of counseling, coaching or other relationship.

Kristin is a freelance writer and journalist. Dara is a career counselor and coach. They're also (recovering) workaholics. Together, they find a balance between taking care of yourself and taking care of your hustle. They interview authors, entrepreneurs, and leaders who are doing things differently. Join their journey and learn how to level up—without burning out. Coming August 22nd!

Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music