Episode 389
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Script | 386
Hello, and welcome to episode 386 of the Your Time, Your Way 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 of this show.
This week’s question is about a subject I’ve always been a little afraid of covering. I’m afraid because there is no simple answer, yet it’s certainly one that has a solution. Unfortunately, that solution isn’t an easy one to implement.
How do you manage your time and productivity in a dynamic, fast changing work environment?
The problem is that standard advice often doesn’t work. For instance, if you are in IT support and systems and company wide software are continually breaking down, how do you find the time to do focused work, when you are being interrupted by emergencies from the moment you arrive at work to the time you leave?
It does have a solution, but it involves the word “no” and the use of experience and knowledge to determine how “urgent” something really is.
I’m currently reading Dominic Sandbrook’s book, Seasons in the Sun. It’s about Britain between 1974 and 1979. Five years when the British government was in perpetual turmoil. Not just dealing with one or two crises. There were hundreds and they were happening every day.
From economic breakdown to Northern Ireland being on the verge of civil war. Every day brought a new emergency that needed instant solutions.
Reading it today makes the political turmoils we face now look like a walk on the beach by comparison.
Yet the government managed, just. It wasn’t easy, but they muddled through, and economic collapse and Northern Ireland civil war did not hap
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