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Episode 59.5 - One Frog, Fifteen Minutes (opens the original)
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Kathy thinks Eat the Frog by Brian Tracy should've been a blog post. Fair enough, it kind of is. But there's one idea worth fifteen minutes of your day, so that's what this mini-pod does with it. Your "frog" is the task you're avoiding. The big one. Tracy's whole argument: eat it first, before you've so much as looked at your inbox. Do the worst thing, and the rest of the day gets easy. Kathy gets into why we spend our energy on busywork instead of the task that actually matters, and the routine
Episode 59 - The Way of Excellence - Is Balance Overrated? with Claire Ennion (opens the original)
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Forget hustle culture. Real excellence looks nothing like what you think. In this episode, Kathy sits down with Claire to unpack The Way of Excellence by Brad Stulberg, a book that swaps perfectionism and burnout for something far more sustainable: relaxed, deep engagement with work that actually matters. They dig into Stulberg's two pillars of excellence; mastery and mattering - the psychology of "episodic future thinking" (why imagining your future self can stop you doom-scrolling), and why ba
Episode 58.5 - Marie Kondo: Does the KonMari Method Actually Work? (opens the original)
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Does Marie Kondo's KonMari method actually work, or is "spark joy" just vague self-help wellness-speak? In this Productivity Nerd minipod, Kathy takes a fun, honest look at the tidying phenomenon that started with The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and turned into a Netflix show, a product line, and a household name. Kathy walks through the actual KonMari method - keeping only what sparks joy, sorting by category instead of room, doing it all in one go, and the folding technique that divides
Episode 58 - Why You Don't Do The Thing You Know You Should (It's Not Discipline...It's Design) (opens the original)
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You know what you should be doing. So why aren't you doing it? Kathy's physio takes four minutes, twice a day. Eight minutes. It's the single most important thing for her recovery. She doesn't do it. Helen's got her own version. You've got yours. In this episode Kathy and Helen go looking for what's actually going on and it turns out this has been studied properly for decades. It isn't laziness, and it isn't a willpower shortage. What's inside: Why motivation isn't the problem - Piers Steel's Te
Episode 57.5 - How to Plan Your Week: My Real Weekly Planning Routine (ClickUp, Theme Days & 3 Priorities) (opens the original)
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In this minipod, Kathy walks through her real weekly planning process: what she does on a Sunday so that 9am Monday never starts from a blank page. Inside this episode: How to use theme days to batch work into pots - content, BD, client management, agency management, admin and finance, personal - and aim for one day per pot Why everything lives in ClickUp but the weekly plan gets handwritten on paper or iPad How to pick your top 3 priorities - and why "spend 2 hours on project X" counts as a pri
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