The Task Management & Time Blocking Podcast
Episodes
Ep 38 – Time Alignment | Who You Are and What You Do w Dr. Brad Aeon
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You are both a fan of Ai and task management. Having achieved gains in both areas over the years, the recent outbreak of LLMs has made you hungry for ...
Ep 37 – The Time Hoard Trap | How to Reclaim Your Schedule Gracefully w Jenny Morin
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You are an efficient person, but you are also polite and care about other people. When they want some of your time, you are happy to give it. Howev...
Ep 36 – Managing the Invisible – Hidden Sub-Tasks in Your Time Blocking
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You are someone who does a great deal of time blocking in your calendar. You follow the best practice and don’t try to schedule big complex tasks - ...
Ep 35 – Productive Surgery: Cutting Out Bad Moments from Meetings
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Once again, you find yourself caught in a bad meeting. As you glance at your watch, you are hoping it will end quickly, and put you out of your misery...
Ep 34 – Initial Capture of Tasks – Why is Capacity a Problem? – Brad Aeon
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You are someone who is well acquainted with the skill of capturing. In other words, you know that it’s important to write everything down that’s i...
Ep 33 – How to Find Time to Plan a Business Strategy?
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You are in charge of implementing your company’s new strategic plan. It includes some brilliant new ideas which should shake up your industry, and e...
Ep 32 -How Do I Measure My Success as a Business-Person?
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You’re someone who launches personal projects to improve your task management. You have made a number of changes in the past, but you haven’t seen...
Ep 31.5 – Season Two Opener: Why Focus on Self-Diagnosis?
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You are a productivity enthusiast who has been around task management for a while. Over the years, you have made lots of useful improvements and can s...
Ep 31 -What I Learned in Season One of the Podcast
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You have been listening to this podcast for a few episodes. You have taken note of the format, which is different. We don’t do traditional interview...
Ep 30 – When You Need to Share Your Task Management Software
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Your company has come up with a bright idea. From now on, the announcement states, everyone will share the same task management software. It’s sold ...
Ep 29 – Auto-Scheduler Overview 2022
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Almost everyone who time-blocks manually for enough time, starts to wonder what it would be like to automate some of the overheard. Wouldn’t it be n...
Ep 28 – Can Working Less Mean Working Better?
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are you someone who works really long hours, not because you are forced to maybe…you could really love what you’re doing! But you have an inkling ...
Ep 27 – Reversing Diminishing Returns in Task Management Improvements
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So you made lots of progress in your task management in the past - you are no beginner. You probably read some books and followed some sound ideas and...
Ep 26 – Pareto Improvements to Your Task Management
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You’re someone who launches personal projects to improve your task management. You have made a number of changes in the past, but you haven’t seen...
Ep 25 1/2 – Once You Realize that One-Size-Does-Not-Fit-All…Now What?
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You are a productivity enthusiast, someone who loves to grow and learn in the area of your task management. You are aware of most of the gurus out the...
Ep 25 – Why is “Emptying” Tasks So Difficult to Master?
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like most people who do knowledge work, there is a surplus of tasks waiting for you to complete everywhere you look. Your inboxes, todo lists, and tas...
Ep 24 – Achieving the Best Flow State
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So you’re a creative person and getting into the Flow State is the key to your success. Like Michaelangelo or Leonardo, you use focused high energy ...
Ep 23 – Capture Points! What They Are and How to Manage Them
07 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You’re a productivity AND technology enthusiast which means that you are managing lots of inboxes. Each time you sign up for a new one, they give yo...
Ep 22 – Task Management as a Non-Traditional Student
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So you’re a career person who has a family…..AND you want to return to school. But in your mind you can’t see how to reconcile the image you h...
Ep 21 – Bad Memory? Or Just Not Strong Enough at Capturing?
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You have noticed that as you make more promises to people to get things done, the risk of not delivering goes up. Sometimes, the fact that you made th...
Ep 20 – Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Failure
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to task management, you know that one size doesn’t fit all. AND You are someone who has increased your workflow over the years - more ...
Ep 19 – What Makes Email So HARD to Fix?
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Like everyone else who does knowledge work, you receive a lot of emails - more than you’d like. You have harbored dreams of a world in which you cou...
Ep 18 – Should We Design Peak Moments of Happiness?
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
COVID disrupted many of our regular routines, some of which have not recovered. In particular, if you work from home, you may notice that seeing the s...
Ep 17 – Controversy. Can You Ever Stop Using Contexts for Your Tasks?
02 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You have tried using contexts for your tasks in the past, perhaps following the advice of GTD. The idea was a sound one, and made a positive contribut...
Ep 16 – Is Motion the Latest, Greatest Auto-Scheduler?
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you're interested in using online calendars you may have seen ads for the auto-scheduler called Motion. You have probably wondered what it might be...
Ep 15 – Is it Harder to Fix Your Car Than Your Task Management System?
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You want to make improvements to your system of task management. You want to intervene at just the right place to have a positive overall effect, but ...
Ep – 14 – Fixing Problems with Time Blocking
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You’re a time blocker to some degree. This means you put tasks in your calendar…Not just appointments with people which can’t easily be changed,...
Ep 13 – How to Arm Yourself with Great Personal Alarms
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You use lots of apps on a range of devices. Many of them have built-in notifications which are jostling for your attention. But if you leave them all ...
Ep 12 – How to Allocate Your Time When Time Blocking
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You’re someone who time blocks. A quick glance at your calendar would show that you have put some thought into each day’s plan. But what happens w...
Ep 11 – How to Interrupt Yourself Skillfully
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You are someone who loves to focus on what is important in the moment. In fact, there may be few things more cherished than being in the Flow state, g...
Ep 10 – Can You Fix Your Time Optimism?
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered whether or not you're a time optimist? So you're someone who uses time blocking as a regular technique... You put tasks in y...
Ep 9 – Why Aren’t Simple Task Management Solutions Easier to Find?
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You are a productivity enthusiast who wants to experience one improvement after another. This kind of progress is sweeet. Like dominoes falling. Or cl...
Ep 8 – Should We Want More Bright, Shiny, Improvement Objects?
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a productivity enthusiast, you are hooked on making improvements. For any number of reasons, you are intrigued by the idea of making progress by co...
Ep 7 – How to Make the Most of Our Summit
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So…you are thinking about registering for the Task Management & Time Blocking Virtual Summit, or maybe you have already registered. You want to make...
Ep 6 – Choosing the Best Changes to Your Task Management
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are hundreds of small ways you can improve your task management - just do a Google search. To be efficient, we want to focus our efforts on thos...
Ep 5 – How to Beat a Productivity Improvement Slump
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you only had a small list of tasks it was easy to make improvements. You took your productivity in this area seriously, and you made some good ch...
Ep 4 – My Productivity is Limited By My IT Department. Help!
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you stay productive when you work for a company that puts in place a policy which changes the way you manage your tasks? You want to be as effe...
Ep 3 – Why Failures in Task Management Are Actually a Good Sign
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When your task management system fails, you may feel a sense of letdown. You wanted it to work perfectly. But here you are looking at a reality you ne...
Ep 2 – How Do You Manage Tasks That You Didn’t Create?
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you manage those tasks which you can't control? You wish you could be completely in charge but there are some which come from life/boss/spouse/...
Ep 1 – What is the Task Management & Time Blocking Podcast All About?
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you take your task management and time blocking to the next level? With so many bits and pieces of advice out there, it should be easy to figur...
Trailer – Introducing the Podcast w Francis Wade
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trailer for the Task Management & Time Blocking podcast with a little splash! http://replytofrancis.info to leave us some feedback or ask a que...