Episode #324: Productivity with Mike Vardy

Mike Vardy is an author, speaker, and productivity and time management strategist.

Heā€™s the founder of Productivityist, and the company's mission is to help people stop 'doing' productive and start 'being' productive through a variety of online and offline resources.

He is the author of "The Front Nine: How to Start the Year You Want Anytime You Wantā€ and most recently "The Productivityist Playbook."

He has served in an editorial capacity for The Next Web and is a contributor to The Huffington Post, GTD Times, 99u, Lifehacker, and SUCCESS Magazine.

Expect to learn a number of techniques that you can begin to apply today to see an immediate impact on your own productivitiy, including:

1 - how to avoid the hefty cost of task-switching by batching tasks on your calendar

2 - why frameworks give you freedom; and

3 - techniques for letting technology be your slave, rather than your master

With that, enjoy my conversation with the productivityist, Mike Vardy.

Topics Discussed:

  • Mikeā€™s purpose
  • What ā€˜productivityā€™ actually means
  • Batching tasks
  • Avoiding the cognitive switching penalty
  • Frameworks
  • The psychology of flow
  • Asynchronous communication
  • Inbox zero
  • Meetings
  • Digital minimalism
  • Prioritisation

Show Notes:

  • Mikeā€™s books:
  • Mikeā€™s podcast:
  • Productivityist: productivityist.com
  • Special offer for Future Squared listeners: productivtyist.com/glaveski

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