2024-08-22
59 分钟I don't like big picture productivity things.
So I keep drilling down how is that going to show its face on my calendar?
How is that going to take from my time?
Because your calendar doesn't lie.
I'm not going to sit there and time block every single hour of my week and say I do this here and I do this here because that's just unrealistic with how we work and how we live.
So instead of rigid schedules, fluid routines, I try to give a lot of what I call recipes, like the actual small things that you can do that feel good and feel easy and don't feel like this, you know, restricting overhaul rigidness, but also leave room for what I'm gonna do with that time.
So have you ever felt like you're just kind of going through the motions all day, day after day, constantly busy, but not really making progress on what truly matters most to you?
Like at the end of the day, you've checked all of these boxes, done a million things, but I not much of what really mattered to you got done and all the typical productivity advice.
It just feels, well, great for someone living in some utopian universe, but you're a real life person with all the things spinning around and it just really doesn't work for you.
Well, if that resonates at all, you are definitely not alone.
Imagine if you could find a way to consistently operate at your highest level, accomplishing your most important things while feeling energized and motivated and in complete alignment with your core values, a path to get more of the right things done without sacrificing your well being or your personal life in the process.
Sounds like maybe a little bit of fiction, but it's real.
And my guest today is Laura May Martin, the executive productivity advisor at Google, where she has spent 13 years coaching top executives on optimizing their time and energy.
She sends out a wildly popular weekly productivity newsletter read by over 50,000 Google employees.
And in her new book, Uptime a Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and well being, she shares just this refreshingly balanced approach to achieving this while also living in the real world.
What you're about to hear is a whole lot of myth busting practical insights and tips to integrate productive output with space for creative thinking and rejuvenation and family and complexity, and realigning your daily actions with your most meaningful intentions, and actually owning the complicated, messy reality of your life at the same time.
This isn't about cramming more into each day through brute force.
It's a far more suitable and sustainable path of working with your natural cycles, minimizing distractions and using routines to create an integrated lifestyle where you show up feeling energized and purposeful across all areas of life.
So get ready to take some notes because this conversation is packed with immediately actionable wisdom to really help you operate at your highest level.
So excited to share this conversation with you.