The Productivity Show

On The Productivity Show we’ve talked a lot about the power of habits but we know it can be difficult to add new habits to your life. One strategy that helps you introduce new habits is called “habit stacking” and that’s what we’ll be going over today.

It’s an easy way to add habits and I’ve used this myself in the last decade before it even had a name. So if you’re struggling with habits, listen up and pay attention!

You’ll discover how you can easily add 3 new habits right away.

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Cheat Sheet:

• Top 3 productivity resources for this week. [3:05]
• Why do we have so much trouble creating habits? [6:03]
• What is the habit stacking formula? [9:23]
• How does Thanh use the habit stacking formula? [11:14]
• What is the Achilles Heel of habit stacking? [14:49]
• How does Thanh use habit stacking in his personal life? [19:40]
• What is the final tip for habit stacking? [24:22]
• How does Thanh approach the final tip for habit stacking? [26:51]

Links:

• Streaks
• Book: 5 Minute Journal
• Book: Atomic Habits
• Tiny Habits
• Atomic Habits: 4 Laws for Changing Your Identity & Living the Life You Want w/ James Clear (TPS217)
• TPS+
• Quiz

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The average person spends about 2.5 hours a day on prepping food, cooking, eating and drinking. That’s a lot of time and an opportunity to save time. Not only that, many of you struggle with eating healthy because it might be time consuming. You come home, you’re tired and not sure what to eat, so you order takeout or have food delivered to you. Usually it’s not healthy and you gain weight.

Luckily for you, there’s a more Asian Efficient way to go about this. You can eat healthy, delicious foods and save time all at once. We’ll show you how in this episode.

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Cheat Sheet:

• Top 3 Productivity Resources [2:52]
• Who is this episode for? [4:22]
• What is “meal planning”, exactly? [5:43]
• What’s the first tip for successful meal planning? [8:06]
• What’s the most important question to ask yourself when meal planning? [11:17]
• What does Thanh’s meal planning schedule look like? [14:18]
• What’s tip #2 for successful meal planning? [16:00]
• How does Thanh eat healthy at home if he hasn’t cooked in 7 years? [24:10]
• What is the most common meal prep tip in the TPS+ chat? [30:37]
• How can you make meal prep more exciting? [34:12]
• What is the final tip for successful meal planning? [37:06]
• Actionable step you can take to integrate this week’s topic into your life [42:30]

Links:

• Paprika
• HelloFresh
• Shef
• TPS235
• $5 Dinners
• TPS+
• Quiz

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If you’ve looked at productivity apps at all, you will have come across Evernote. Some people think about Evernote as a “note-taking app”, but it is so much more than that. It’s where you can remember everything that is important, and it’s the tool you can use to stay organized, wherever you are in the world and with whatever device you have access to.

We’ve talked a lot about Evernote on the podcast, going back as far as 2015. In this episode, we are going to revisit how we use Evernote, and share some of our favorite Evernote tips — some you may not have used before, even if you’ve been using Evernote for as long as we have.

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Cheat Sheet:

• Brooks’s top 3 productivity resources for the week [3:23]
• How Thanh and Brooks first encountered Evernote and what they used it for [7:16]
• Why despite some popular articles and videos, Evernote is far from dead [11:14]
• How Evernote has made the Asian Efficiency team’s organization much better [14:54]
• Why it’s really important not to overthink how you organize your notes [25:16]
• The advantage of creating a dashboard or table of contents [30:54]
• The power of utilizing the Evernote template system [35:02]
• How to become a web clipper power user and combine it with Gmail [39:30]
• The super-shortcut that is under-utilized in Evernote [43:35]

Links:

• Freshbooks
• Indeed
• Evernote
• ScanSnap iX1500
• Scannable
• Scanbot
• Rocketbook Core
• Check out the upcoming Charles Byrd webinar on Evernote
• The Future of Work w/ Andrew Sinkov of Evernote (TPS50)
• An Evernote Consultant Reveals How She Uses The Tool To Manage Busy Life and Business (TPS268)
• Notion and Choosing The Right Productivity Tool For You w/ Francesco D’Alessio (TPS273)
• We Were Tired of Forgetting The Books We Read — So We Use This System (TPS245)
• How to Get the Most Value Out of Conferences and Implement What You’ve Learned (TPS225)
• Next-Level Email Processing: How to Handle Any Email in Your Inbox (TPS166)
• Learn more about this awesome Siri Shortcut: How to capture ideas before they’re gone forever with iOS Shortcuts!

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Today we’re introducing you to our new productivity framework, which we call TEA. This simple framework will help you identify the root causes when your productivity dips and show you which levers you need to pull to get back on track. If you feel like you’re not living up to your full potential but can’t quite figure out why, or are just starting on your productivity journey but could use a roadmap to help you achieve your goals, then this episode is for you.

Cheat Sheet

• The origin story of how the TEA framework was created [1:31]
• Examples of how these three different currencies work together to help you reach your full potential [5:48]
• What to do if you don’t have the energy to do the things you want to get done [10:26]
• Why attention and focus are becoming hot button topics in the productivity community [16:48]
• In-depth descriptions of each the 3 pillars of productivity [27:54]
• Tactics: things you can do now to quickly win back time [32:11]
• Creating rituals and habits in order to have more energy to be productive [37:01]
• Why most people focus on the area of attention last [44:28]
• Where to start with the TEA framework for yourself [50:01]

Links

• Busycal
• The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
• How to Get Started with An Executive Assistant w/ Tim Francis (TPS190)
• The CEO’s Secret to Productivity: An Executive Assistant (TPS143)
• Focus Tips From the Most Productive Man You’d Ever Hope to Meet w/ Chris Bailey (TPS213)
• Speed Up by Slowing Down: Sleep Secrets to Boost Your Focus and Maximize Your Productivity (TPS214)
• Things 3
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• SaneBox
• TPS89: Stop Email Overload w/ Dmitri Leonov of SaneBox
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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