Mike Vardy on Doing Less Productivity and Being More Productive
Mike Vardy on doing less 'Productivity' and being more productive and ways to get better work done.
Mike Vardy is a writer, speaker and podcaster on productivity. His main site is Productivityist.com. He’s given talks on productivity and technology, as well as several featured keynotes and workshops related to time, task, project, and goal management.
Covered in this episode:
- Productivityist = a person who wants to get more efficient and more effective with their work
- Working on ways to get better work done
- How do you determine the need for a new tool, how do you test a tool
- A More Meaningful To Do List – The Omnifocus Setup
- Projects first, tasks second
- Projects vs. tasks
- Jon Acuff – START
- Green Lantern – Willpower vs. Fear
- Chris Brogan You Are Your Own Superhero
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- The Best Upgrade Is You by Patrick Rhone
- Low energy productivity
- The Front Nine
- Mike’s on Mic’s
Stop doing productivity and start being productive. - @MikeVardyClick To Tweet
Have to do’s are fine, but you also need to have want to do’s. - @MikeVardyClick To TweetPlease connect with me
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