Productivity Cast

Have you ever gotten stuck? Are you stuck right now? How do you get unstuck? Well, getting unstuck is tough, but it's doable! In this cast, the ProductivityCast team discusses what gets us stuck and methods for getting unstuck.

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

What Designers of Task Management Apps Can Do to Catch Up with Pokemon Go by Francis Wade

50 Shades of Grey (if you didn’t get Augusto’s joke ? )

Getting Things Done by David Allen

OmniFocus 2

Todoist

Any.do

Habitica (f/k/a HabitRPG) (Let us know if you’d like to join Ray’s GTD Habitica Party!)

Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation

SuperBetter - Jane McGonigal, PhD (McGonigal’s TED talk)

Jerry Seinfeld / Don’t Break the Chain

Bullet Journal

Unstuck app

Tim Ferriss - “deconstruction of expert process”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSq9uGs_z0E
https://tim.blog/2016/10/06/the-art-and-science-of-learning-anything-faster/

Human Senses

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are you ready to manage your work and

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personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity here

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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and

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Augusto Pinaud hello everybody and

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welcome back to another episode of

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productivitycast the weekly show about

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all things personal productivity today

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on the show we have Augusto Pinaud Art

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Gelwicks and Francis Wade welcome

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everybody how's it going good morning

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going great it's going great thanks a

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lot

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awesome so excited to have everybody on

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for this recording because we're talking

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about getting unstuck I wanted to I

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wanted to lead off with just what we all

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are thinking about when we talk about

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getting stuck in the first place and how

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and and what that means in the context

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of productivity art had come up with a

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really great suggestion which is that at

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the end of the episode

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we're each going to rapid-fire give some

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of our own sort of tactical techniques

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for our you know sort of our quick

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tactics for being able to get unstuck

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when we ourselves get stuck so we will

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close out the episode with that but

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let's let's start with just your

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thoughts on what is getting stuck and

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what is getting unstuck then as its

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inverse I've found myself stuck in a

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serious way when I moved back to Jamaica

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