Living a Balanced Life – TPW093

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Living a Balanced Life – TPW093

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Jun 8, 2016

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What does it mean to live a balanced life? Is it even possible in the 21st century? In this episode we looked at these questions and considered some steps we can take to figure out what balance is right for us, and how to create it.

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Jun 8, 2016

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A podcast intended to help busy women find the tools and the encouragement to manage their lives, their time, their stress, and their stuff so they can accomplish the things that matter most to them.

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Introduction – TPW000: It's been six months in the making, but with much fear and trepidation, I share here my first, very short, very rough "pre-episode" of The Productive Woman, a podcast created to help busy women find tools and encouragement for managing their lives, by The Productive Woman
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My Top 10 Tips for Managing Your Day – TPW003: Little things can make a big difference in managing the demands on our time. This episode is a quick flyover of the things that help me on a daily basis. by The Productive Woman
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Conquering Clutter, Step by Step – TPW016: In episode 14 we started a conversation about decluttering. This week we look at it again, talking about a step-by-step process for decluttering and organizing our homes (or workspace) one room at a time. by The Productive Woman
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Overcoming Obstacles to Achieving Our Goals – TPW006: Even if we go through an intentional process of setting our goals, we might face obstacles in our efforts to actually achieve them. Being prepared for those obstacles helps us overcome them. In this episode we continue our discussion of goal-setting, by The Productive Woman
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5 Important Productivity Principles for the New Year – TPW023: 2014 is winding down, and 2015 is upon us. While we want to stay in the moment and enjoy the holiday celebrations, there's still a little time to give thought to the coming year and what we want to accomplish. by The Productive Woman
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Saying No Gracefully – TPW008: Do you find it difficult to say no? I do. The desire to be liked or the sincere desire to help makes it easy to say yes, and sometimes we end up regretting it. by The Productive Woman
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Relaxing Without Guilt – TPW018: 21st century life is cram-packed with activity, stress, and tension, and a lot of us have a hard time letting it go long enough to relax, rest, and recharge. Learning to do so, though, will reap dividends in our physical, mental, and emotional health, by The Productive Woman
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The Big Picture: Priorities & Guiding Principles – TPW002: When people think about productivity, they often think about calendars and to-do lists and project management, and all of those things are a big part of what we will discuss in coming episodes. But there's a big difference between being busy and being ... by The Productive Woman
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Starting the Journey – TPW001: Welcome to the first official episode of The Productive Woman. In this episode I share a little about who this podcast is for, why I created it, what I'll be covering, and what the format will be. I also offer a little information about myself, by The Productive Woman
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My Top 10 Productivity Apps for iPhone – TPW020: When I recently put the question out on social media, asking listeners what topics they'd like to hear about on upcoming episodes, several asked for suggestions on productivity apps for smart phones. It's a question I often get asked by friends and col... by The Productive Woman
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10 Indispensable Productivity Tools – TPW012: Every woman is unique, and her life and schedule and style are unique. So there's no such thing as one right way to manage your life or time, and there are no tools that work for everyone. Every woman develops the system that works for her, by The Productive Woman
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7 Productivity Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them – TPW017: Productivity is a good thing, but there are potential pitfalls we should be aware of in our pursuit of productivity. In this episode we look at seven of those pitfalls, and consider how we can avoid them and stay on track toward making lives that matter. by The Productive Woman
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A Step by Step Process for Setting Goals – TPW005: Continuing our series on goal-setting, this week we talk about a step-by-step process for setting goals. by The Productive Woman
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How to Get Yourself to Do the Things You Want to Do – TPW026: Why is it so hard to get ourselves to do the things we most want to do? Few things in life are more exasperating than the way we sometimes sabotage our own goals. In this episode we look at some of reasons we block our own success, by The Productive Woman
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Impostor Syndrome – TPW063: You might be surprised to learn that the most successful, accomplished women you know struggle with feeling like a fraud. It's known as Impostor Syndrome, and we're going to look at where it comes from, how it affects our productivity, by The Productive Woman
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15 Minutes to Sanity: 9 Steps to Handling Overwhelm – TPW011: Sometimes, no matter how organized we are or how carefully we plan, life just takes over and throws way too much at us. When there's too much to do and not enough time to get it done, we can feel panicky, stressed, and overwhelmed. by The Productive Woman
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Tips for Stress-Free Travel – TPW010: Travel can be stressful, but there are lots of things we can do to make it less so. I asked my connections on Facebook to share some of their favorite tips for productive and stress-free travel, and in this episode I share their tips, by The Productive Woman
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Getting Ready to Finish Well – TPW013: As we enter the last quarter of the year, it seems like a good time to pause, consider what we've accomplished so far this year, re-evaluate what we want to do in the time that's left, and set ourselves up for success in the remaining months of this year. by The Productive Woman
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Choose What’s Essential, Eliminate the Rest – TPW032: In an increasingly noisy world, one key to true productivity and to building a life of lasting significance and satisfaction is learning to identify and pursue only what's essential, purposely eliminating the nonessential from our lives to make room fo... by The Productive Woman
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Focus on Building the Life You Want – TPW031: If you're struggling to make progress on accomplishing the things you care about, if you start lots of projects but don't finish many, perhaps you're feeling the effects of a lack of focus. For some of us, the biggest challenge to productivity is the t... by The Productive Woman
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Organizing for a Low-Stress Holiday Meal – TPW019: The holiday season is a time filled with family and friends and joy . . . and often, for those of use whose schedules are already busy, even more stress than usual. This week we're going to look at some steps we can take to minimize the stress, by The Productive Woman
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Perfectionism & Productivity – TPW007: Having high standards is a good thing. Striving for excellence is a good thing. But taken to extremes, these can become perfectionism, which can paralyze us and prevent us from accomplishing the things that matter to us. by The Productive Woman
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Surviving (and Embracing) Change – TPW044: Change is inevitable, but it's also stressful and can wreak havoc on our productivity. So how can we manage our lives so that we can not only survive it, but come through it better than we went into it? by The Productive Woman
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