1071: Boosting Productivity and Slashing Overwhelm through Timeboxing with Marc Zao-Sanders

Don't just let life and your job just happen to you. Rediscover what you want to do, what your intentions are, and find a way to bring them into being, into your work, into your life. I use the word agency a lot with time boxing. It's taking back your agency. You be in control.

Don't let the world happen to you. You decide what needs to happen, when it's going to happen, and get it done. Giving yourself the space to think through what is most important. And then when is deciding when it should start and when it should finish, not being too ambitious, but being ambitious enough with those timings. One of the productive things might well be having a break, taking your dog for a walk.

It's just positive intentional activities that by the end of the day and even actually during the day are going to be really good for you. That's Mark Zhao Sanders. He's an expert on living an intentional life whose frameworks have helped leaders and people across the globe take back control of their time. Mark practices time boxing all the time and his new book shares principles of focused productivity to help you focus on doing the right things at the right time. So you'll learn one, how to prune your to-do list effectively, two, how to use time boxing to plan your day with intention, and three, the art of choosing breaks.

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