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#157: Your Planner and Your Project Management System Sep 12, 2022

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One of the most common questions we hear is: "How do I integrate the planner with my project management system?". We all know the value of using the Full Focus Planner to not just stay organized, but to help us conceive and achieve our goals. What happens when you want to take the insights from the planner and use it with Asana, Trello, ClickUp, or whatever project management system you use?

Well, you're in luck because today Courtney is joined by the Corporate Project Manager at Full Focus, Annie Mayberry. She'll talk you through three specific bridges that you can use to connect your planner to your project management system.

Later in the episode, we're joined by Andrea Liebross. She's a Full Focus Certified Pro who stops by to share how her coaching career and life have been impacted by the Full Focus Planner. She also shares some of her favorite planner tips! If you want to know more about working with Andrea, you can visit her website: https://andrealiebross.com/work-with-me/.

In this episode, you will learn:

Which areas in the planner lend themselves to direct integration with a project management system
How to integrate your Big 3 into a project management system
How the daily pages are like a container

To watch this episode on YouTube, visit https://youtu.be/VpskpE5g9Nc.

To see Annie's Asana/Daily Big 3 integration, make sure to visit the Full Focus Planner community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ffpthinktank/.

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#156: Your Boss Derailed Your Plans. Now What? Sep 05, 2022

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Have you ever had a plan for your week only to have a conversation with your boss that changes everything? In the blink of an eye, it seems like all of your plans have been ruined and you'll spend days trying to catch up. The truth is that you have more control over these situations than you might think.

Blake, Courtney, and Verbs give you four steps that you can follow the moment your boss tells you they need something ASAP.

In this episode, you will learn:

The value of taking a moment before responding to your boss' request
The questions that you can ask yourself to prioritize your tasks.
How to manage your expectations once your plans have to change
How Nick's cat is sorta like his boss (especially on the day of this recording)

To watch today's episode, visit https://youtu.be/FL-MiiMGq68.

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#155: 3 Rhythms to Help You Reset This Fall Aug 29, 2022

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With summer vacations wrapping up, school starting again, and various pumpkin-flavored drinks being consumed, that can mean only one thing: fall is upon us. A change in seasons means a change in your routines. Luckily, the Full Focus system gives you the chance to rethink the rhythms and rituals that help you be successful.

Blake, Verbs, and Courtney provide you with three rhythms that you can use to transition into fall without missing a beat.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Why the shorter days can cause problems with your schedule
How to build rituals that work for you
Why defining your wins is so important
How well Blake sings hoedowns

Go watch Blake's hoedowns here: https://youtu.be/_y9z4znseHI

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#154: 4 Activities You Should Try Batching Aug 22, 2022

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We've all been there. The day is ending and you're just feeling the whiplash of a day that required a seemingly endless list of decisions and tasks. While it can feel like you have no control over how your day plays out, the truth is that there are some tasks that you will do repeatedly. Those tasks are perfect candidates to be batched. Batching means less time transitioning between tasks and more time getting them done quickly. It's a win-win situation!

In this Courtney-approved episode, Courtney and Verbs share four activities that you should try batching. They'll give you specific ideas to help at work and home - as well as some other helpful tips to keep you from feeling beat up at the end of your day.

In this episode, you'll learn:

How your chronotype can help you decide when and how to batch activities
How to recognize when the work you're doing is "creative" and how to prepare for it
Which activities are the easiest to batch
What happened to Nick's first pair of glasses

Resources

-The FREE Amy Porterfield presentation about MegaBatching can be found at www.focusonthispodcast.com/megabatching
The book Verbs references is called "Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less" by Alex -Soojung-Kim Pang.
The "Dishwasher Episode" is #149: Complete Your Daily Big 3 with Two Simple Questions: https://focusonthispodcast.com/podcast/149-complete-your-daily-big-3-with-two-simple-questions/

To watch this episode (and to see Verbs' and Nick's rooms), go to https://youtu.be/H9BkVRI6azk.

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#153: 4 Tools to Defeat Distractions and Interruptions Aug 15, 2022

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It seems like the moment you try to do important work is always precisely aligned with the moment that the whole world suddenly needs your attention. Your boss might need you. Your kids might need you. Your own thoughts interrupt you and pull your attention away from the important work at hand. The good news is that it doesn't have to be like this.

In today's episode, Courtney and Verbs give you the tools you need to defeat distractions and interruptions. If you implement just a couple of these tools, you're going to find that you're getting a lot more work done.

In this episode, you will learn:

How to prepare others that you're busy
A few ways to use technology in your favor (and how to fight off the distractions)
How to simply get down to business when the time has arrived

To watch this episode on YouTube, visit: https://youtu.be/KZYPCg1qqAE.

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#152: Coach Yourself to Goal Success with Two Questions Aug 08, 2022

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Blake stops by to talk with Verbs and Courtney about how two simple questions can help you reach your goals.

Coaching is so valuable because it allows you to get an outside perspective on what's happening in your life. While having a coach is always a good idea, what if you could coach yourself? What if you could set aside the emotions that keep us from accomplishing our goals? The questions that Courtney, Verbs, and Blake discuss this week are simple (and they're only a start), but if you commit just a little time to thinking deeply about them, then you'll get back on track to success.

Also, the crew tackles a question from the community about how to develop a new musical skill.

To watch this episode online, visit https://youtu.be/M70cLKoE0zY.

In this episode, you will:

Learn how the Weekly Preview fits into your new self-coaching mindset
Explore the role that emotions play in keeping us from properly reflecting
Learn how to harness experience for future success
Hear about why pink cups are superior to any other colored cup (according to some)

Check out the Vision Cast Desk Tool here: https://fullfocusstore.com/products/vision-caster-desk-tool/

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Level-Up Your Workday Shutdown Ritual Aug 01, 2022

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As high achievers, it can be difficult to stop the work you're doing and start a workday shutdown. In the short run, pushing through and finishing the work can feel like it makes a lot of sense because you finish more things on your to-do list. However, in the long run, not shutting down your workday can start to grind your productivity to a halt.

Today, Courtney and Verbs describe two different elements that will help you end your workday on the right foot. They also answer a question from the Full Focus Planner Community about the Quarterly Preview being too business-sounding.

In this episode, you will learn:

Concrete ways that you can end your workday and reset for the start of the next day
How to manage the loose ends that will undoubtedly come up through your day
The benefits of simply utilizing your workday shutdown ritual
New ways to think about your Quarterly Preview

To watch this episode, go to https://youtu.be/86zIX3CgPmM.

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#150: The #1 Way To Improve Your SMARTER Goal Jul 25, 2022

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A goal that is poorly structured can not only keep you from achieving your goal, but it can also stop you from getting out of the starting gates. Today, Verbs and Courtney talk you through the first "R" in the SMARTER Goals Framework: Risky. How can we leverage risk to maximize our results?

Also, Courtney battles with a fly. If you want to see all of it, make sure you watch the video: https://youtu.be/qsV_mwPP5zA

In this episode, you will learn:

What healthy risk feels like
How to understand risk-taking by exploring how children take risks
How to reformulate a goal to make it more risky

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#149: Complete Your Daily Big 3 with Two Simple Questions Jul 18, 2022

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What are the biggest obstacles that people face when struggling to complete their Daily Big 3? Since the Daily Big Three is a core component of the Full Focus System, understanding the answers to that question can help you break through the stress of those blank Daily Big 3 sections in your planner.

In this episode, Courtney and Verbs discuss two powerful questions that can help get you back on track with your Daily Big 3 practice.

Also, Nick talks about how you're probably using your dishwasher wrong and how using it correctly can save you a lot of time for more important things.

In this episode, you will learn:

About the importance of mindset when it comes to breaking through limiting beliefs
How we gain clarity from filling out our Daily Big 3
How our Daily Big 3 help us achieve our goals
More about dishwashers than you ever thought possible.

The dishwasher video from Technology Connections that Nick references: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04

Also, here's a follow-up video where the host talks a bit more about how much detergent you should be using:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll6-eGDpimU

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#24: How to Set Up Your Monthly Calendar Jul 11, 2022

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As a high achiever, you’re dialed in on productivity. You know how to get things done. But there’s a problem. No matter how much you produce, you always feel behind. There always seems to be a looming deadline that somehow got missed. That puts you on the hamster wheel nearly every week, hustling to get caught up. It’s exhausting.

There’s a fix for that. It’s called a Monthly Calendar. Start using this tool to keep track of your Big Rocks, and you’ll escape that feeling of being two steps behind. You’ll have plenty of time for your major commitments and deadlines. Better yet, you’ll have lots more time for the “little rocks” too.

In this episode you will—

Learn why a weekly calendar view will not help you track deadlines.
Find a simple way to keep your big commitments visible at all times.
Discover how to gain complete confidence in accepting or declining appointments.
Find the space to fit in other important priorities around big commitments like travel or project deadlines.
Relax, knowing all your major commitments are under control!

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