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Your Time, Your Way

Your Time, Your Way

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Showing you ways to get control of your time through tested techniques that will give you more time to do the things you want to do.Copyright 2024 Carl Pullein International. All rights reserved. Economia Gestione e leadership Management Successo personale Sviluppo personale
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  • A Good Productivity System Knows How To have A Bad Day.

    A Good Productivity System Knows How To have A Bad Day.
    Oct 18 2026
    Are you trying to build a productivity system, or are you building something more resilient? This week, we’re looking at why even the most organised systems break down and how to build resiliency into your own systems. Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin You can join the Get Back On Track Course here Learn more about the Productivity Academy Get Your Copy Of Your Time, Your Way: Time Well Managed, Life Well Lived The Working With… Weekly Newsletter Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl’s YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes Subscribe to my Substack The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page Script | 438 Hello, and welcome to episode 438 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show. Whenever I take on a new coaching client, the first steps we take are usually to get things organised so we can clear the decks, so to speak. In other words, in order to build a system, we need clear space on which to build. It’s the same if you were rebuilding a house. Before you can build the new house, you will need to clear away the old house and start with the ground levelled, while leaving the essentials such as the power, water and gas inputs. Well, it’s the same with building, or rebuilding, a productivity system; we need to retain the basics—a calendar, a task manager and somewhere to keep information, such as a notes app. Once we have a clear space to work with, we can go to work on the more important aspects of getting organised and being able to better manage the workload that is coming at us. This week’s question is about how to do just that. Clear the decks and then build some resiliency into your system so that whenever you have a challenging day, and we all have those, your system does not break down again, but instead supports you. So, without further ado, let me hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week’s question. This week’s question comes from Kelly. Kelly asks: Hi Carl, how would you go about doing a complete reset of your system? I’ve been trying to stay organised for years and have never found anything I can stay consistent with. What would you advise someone who needed to do a complete reset? Hi Kelly, thank you for your question. As a coach, it’s easy for me to give someone ways to simplify their system, keep their task manager clean and remove conflicting meetings on their calendar. I can also help them clean up their notes and files and build wonderful ways to organise their workload. I can introduce time blocking techniques that work and a lot of other remedies. I have a whole cabinet full of productivity medicine I could prescribe. But often that’s not the real problem. It can be a symptom of an underlying problem. Having a wonderfully organised system that looks pretty and clean may not always help you make the decision about what to work on next. As the saying goes, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig The problem, though, Kelly, might not be your system. It might be something a little simpler than that. In the past, I’ve talked a lot about building processes for doing your most important work. These are important because they remove one of the most common reasons why any system may break down. Never being completely confident that what you are working on is the right thing. A process allows you to pre-decide what to do and how to do it. The more you run the process, the faster and more efficient you become at running it. Take email and message management as an example. The process is simple: Clear your inbox early, then later in the day, as late as you feel comfortable, allocate some time to go through your actionable messages. There are some variables in this process. Depending on the kind of work you do, you may find you need to respond to messages a little more frequently. Many of my coaching clients manage teams of people, where some messages, such as an urgent decision, need to be made. These messages can be built into the process so they are dealt with two or three times a day. The good thing about building processes is that you can add these variables to your own processes. Take, for example, some of the professors I have as clients. Many of them have to write and submit grant applications two or three times a year. These can be complex documents that require research, collaboration and a lot of time. If this is something you often need to do, then building a process to write and submit your applications would mean that you would know when to start, what needs to be done, and you would be able to protect sufficient time for completing the application. Some of these applications can take three or four months to complete and submit. With these, you would be able to trigger the process at ...
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    14 min
  • Are You Busy With Things You No Longer Care About?

    Are You Busy With Things You No Longer Care About?
    Oct 11 2026

    What if the routines you have today are not the routines that will get you to where you want to be?

    You can join the Get Back On Track Course here

    This is something that’s popped up from quite a few of you who have recently taken my new How To Get Back On Track Course. Let’s look at what’s happening and what you can do to alter your routines to move towards the life you want to live.

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    14 min
  • How to Get Back On Track When the Wheels Come Off

    How to Get Back On Track When the Wheels Come Off
    Oct 4 2026
    Podcast 436 Learn more about the How To Get Back On Track Course here: https://www.carlpullein.com/blog/when-things-fall-apart/2/10/2026 Perhaps the biggest difficulty people face when managing their work is not creating a system or building processes. It’s maintaining those systems and processes when they become overloaded by work and personal commitments. In this week’s episode, I’m sharing a few ideas that have helped me regain control over the years when things have become a little bit frazzled, and the work coming in is greater than the amount of work getting done. Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin You can join the Get Back On Track Course here Learn more about the Productivity Academy Get Your Copy Of Your Time, Your Way: Time Well Managed, Life Well Lived The Working With… Weekly Newsletter Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl’s YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes Subscribe to my Substack The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page Script | 436 Hello, and welcome to episode 436 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show. You may have read the books, taken the courses and watched the YouTube videos. You know what’s needed to create a way to manage your workload, and you have all the tools to contain everything. Then, something goes wrong. A major client threatens to go to a competitor, your boss decides to change your responsibilities, or your son or daughter gets sick, and you need to stay at home for a couple of days while they recover, and you have to start cancelling meetings and postponing deadlines. It happens to all of us from time to time. The stress this creates just adds to the sense of overwhelm and leaves us not knowing which way to turn. Suddenly, our system and processes no longer seem to work, and we’re running around in circles, not knowing which way to turn. And yet, it’s times like these that our systems are built for. This week I launched a brand-new course called How to Get Back on Track, and the inspiration for developing this course was my coaching clients. My clients come to me when they are stuck and don’t know how to get out and back on track. And over the years, I’ve developed a few ideas that have helped hundreds of my clients get back on track quickly and without adding more stress or hours to their already busy schedules. The first thing to do when you find yourself off track, so to speak, is to stop. Yes, I know that seems to be the last thing you should do, but there is an old saying that goes, “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging” And it’s true. Running around in circles not knowing what you should work on means nothing is getting done. The pile of work is growing, and all you are doing is looking at a growing list of things to do, and nothing is happening. Stopping gives you time to look at everything coming in and make a decision about what needs your attention right now. You can only give one thing your attention at a time. If you’ve hundreds of unread emails and messages sitting in your inbox, several quotes to get out, and a boss who wants you to send her a list of all the quotes in play today, you’re not going to be able to do all of those things at the same time. You are going to need to decide which one deserves your attention right now. Stopping allows your brain to slow down for a moment to look at what you have and to decide objectively what you should begin with. Often we will pick the easiest thing because that gives us a sense of progress, yet the easiest thing is likely to be the least important. (Unless you’re lucky.) Now, when I say stop, I don’t mean stop for long. All you need is five to ten minutes where you stop, look at what’s on your list of things to do and make a decision about what you will work on for the next hour or two. Ultimately, what matters is what you can do today to begin reducing the list. And that will depend on how many meetings and appointments you have today. There’s an interesting human behavioural instinct that comes into play when we are faced with declining an invitation from someone. There’s the easy way out; that’s to say, “Yes, I can meet with you.”, even though we know the best thing to do is to say no and offer an alternative time next week. Or the alternative is to say, unfortunately, I’m very busy this week; could we meet next week instead? The “fear” of having to negotiate with someone overcomes the common-sense answer of “no, not this week”. So we add more commitments to an already full schedule. Now you have to move some other things around, allowing your emails and messages to continue to grow; after all, you’ve got no time for dealing with that, but you’d better keep checking them to see ...
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    13 min
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