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Back to EpisodesTHe Art Of Getting Stuff Done. (And Not Procrastinating)
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Are you planning, playing and fiddling, or are you doing? That’s what I am looking at in this week’s episode.
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Episode 292 | Script
Hello, and welcome to episode 292 of the Working With Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host for this show.
The area of time management and productivity is like many areas in that there is a lot of planning, thinking, tools and systems to play with and much more that is anything but doing.
Yet of all the different areas, time management and productivity is the one that is meant to focus on execution and getting stuff done. Sadly, over the last twenty years or so, certainly since the digital explosion began around the mid-1990s, the focus seems to have moved away from doing the work and more towards organising the work.
Now a limited amount of organising is important, after all, knowing where something is does help you to be more productive. But, moving something from one area to another is not being productive. It’s just moving stuff around. It’s not doing the work. A document that needs to be finished, needs to be opened and finished. Moving it from one folder to another will not write the document. All it does is moves it from one place to another. That’s not being productive. That’s procrastination.
And it’s on this subject that this week’s question is about. How to focus less on the minors and more on the majors—the activities that get the work done.
And so, let me hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week’s question.
This week’s question comes from Caroline. Caroline asks, hi Carl, I recently took your COD course and I am struggling to meet the target of only spending 20 minutes a day on organising and planning my day. I find I need a lot more than twenty minutes. Is there a reason why this is important?
Hi Caroline, thank you for your question.
The twenty-minute rule, so to speak, is not necessarily a strict number, it more a way to help people understand that planning and organising, if not checked, will become a dangerous form of procrastination.
We often use the excuse of something needing more time for planning or thinking about to avoid doing the work. If you think about it, how lo