Focus and Chill - productivity tactics for AuDHDers and other neurodivergent folks

Welcome to Episode #12 of the Focus and Chill podcast. We’re lucky to have Sandy Xu as our guest today. Sandy is passionate about the transition to net zero carbon emissions. She is a renewable energy analyst, convenor of the Sustainability Book club, and obsessed with finding low-carbon running shoes. She’s also Jeremy’s wife. JN: What projects are you concentrating on during your focused hours?...

JN: Welcome to the Focus and Chill podcast where we discuss sustainable productivity and habit formation while avoiding the allure of hustle culture. JC: Every episode we interview guests who have a solid productivity and habit game and pass the learnings on to you, our wise and benevolent audience. JN: We’re your hosts: Jeremy and Joey. JC: I'm Joey, a habits and focus coach, perpetual student of...

What projects are you concentrating on during your focused hours? Baby takes away focus hours Wake up early 5am before baby wakes up 2hrs of power Journaling Read book Ice bath/exercise/breath work Business Life and business is his project Business Wellbeing  WHM (Wim Hoff Method) Corporate consulting: employee experience Listening coaching How about the rest of the time? What do you enjoy doing i...

JC: What projects are you concentrating on during your focused hours? Podcast Diverse guests Motorcycle racer 9-5 job: product developer for cyber security Cyber security LinkedIn posts to help with sales Projects eBook What’s it about? Rapport, deep communication Deepening weak ties Super interesting, would be great to go deeper if we had more time. Maybe an encore in the near future? JN: How abo...

What projects are you concentrating on during your focused hours? - health and accountability coaching How about the rest of the time? What do you enjoy doing in your off time? Intermittent breaks:  5 minute Pomodoro breaks (dancing/yoga/stretching/cleaning house).  ESR (breathwork, stretching, meditation, body scan, 5 senses) Bigger breaks run reading: YA books. "Loveless". "Clara and the sun" AI...

What projects are you concentrating on during your focused hours? Multi-passionate Marketing operations Side projects: Productivity and confidence coaching Next iteration of buying software - software finds How about the rest of the time? What do you enjoy doing in your off time? Acro yoga Snorkeling Hiking Soap bubbles Side projects Web comics Dogmatic Vegan TV series: Severance Cooking Vegetaria...

In this episode we recap the last five interviews and discuss these topics: - strategies for breaking bad habits - isn't doing the same thing every day really boring? - are habits a luxury for elites? - how do you decide which activities to keep as habits and which to ditch? - how long does it take to form a habit? - aren't tiny habits useless? - what is the optimal length of a pomodoro block? - h...

Monique Lindner aka The Time Alchemist, is a Holistic High Performance & Lifestyle Design Specialist , Author, TEDx speaker, Coach & Consultant, Change-Maker, and location-independent entrepreneur.  She is the creator of The T.I.M.E. Method ® and published her book under the same name in the first lockdown of 2020 – putting her own signature framework to the test.  Over the last 20+ years...

What she focuses on  Amazon investment analysis frameworks for decision making Executive coaching 1 on 1 coaching listen to 2nd and 3rd level Family quality time with kids How she relaxes planned workouts meditation unplanned reading jigsaw puzzles recipes tidy up house talk to friends walks with partner Productivity tactics For coaching: use scheduling link Calendarise important but not urgent ta...

Show notes: Morning Routine 4AM - 4:30AM Wake up, have coffee  4:30AM - 5:30AM Take dogs for walk 5:30AM - 7AM Read flipboard articles (leadership, business, food) 7AM-7:30AM Social media (LinkedIn) Tactics for staying focused Time blocking: - 7:30AM - 1PM Coaching calls - 1PM-3PM Admin Use Eisenhower Matrix for prioritisation Focus on "platinum activities" (strength based work) and delegate the r...

What he concentrates on Day job: Product Manager at MessageMedia  Side project: Building Focus Bear Hobbies xc skiing trail running cycling green renovations Morning Routine (5:40am - 9:40am) Exercise (walk, yoga, HIIT, run): 90 minutes Meditation/mindset/journalling: 40 minutes Work emails (check for fires): 45 minutes spread out throughout routine Planning for day: 8 minutes Life maintenance (br...

What projects are you concentrating on during your focused hours? - Wrapping up role as data engineer - Taking a sabbatical while he decides the next steps - Likely to take a role with an EA (effective altruism) aligned organisation How about the rest of the time? What do you enjoy doing in your off time? Composing music, drawing, time in nature, playing video games. 3. What does your morning rout...