The Productive Woman

As a longtime organization nerd, I've gathered some great tips from professional organizers whose books, YouTube videos, podcasts, and articles I've learned from over the years.

Healthcare executive Merrily Orsini is an advocate for home healthcare--and for taking small incremental steps to achieve your most cherished goals.

Meaningful productivity is about making a life that matters. For me, a life that matters centers on people that matter. Aside from family, friends and mentors have perhaps the most influence on our meaningfully productive life.

Working from home can be great, but if the decision to do so was made for you by outside circumstances and with little time to prepare, it comes with unique challenges.

This week I'm sharing a few thoughts about life and productivity during a time of crisis, including a few suggestions for adjusting to a new reality.

What time wasters can we eliminate to make more time for what matters most? We're talking about a few of them in this week's episode.

Setting goals that matter starts with knowing what's most important to you. This week we're reviewing some principles of setting meaningful goals.

Is work-life balance really a thing? Some thoughts about what it means (and what it doesn't mean) on this week's episode.

This week's episode features my conversation with former investment banking professional Mayda Poc about how she intentionally incorporates being present in the moment into her productive life.

This week's episode features tips from women in the TPW community on how they fit healthy eating into their busy lives.

When it comes to making a meaningfully productive life, there is incredible power in focusing on the things we can control.

This week's episode of The Productive Woman podcast features my conversation with professor, wife, and mom Min Choi about how she identified her optimal hours for productivity and protects those hours for getting her most important work done.

What gets in the way of getting stuff done, and how can we overcome those obstacles and accomplish what matters to us?

Achieving our goals this year requires consistent action. What do you do if your motivation to act starts to fade as the year continues?

The beginning of a new year is a great time to declutter your space. This week's episode offers some ideas and inspiration to get you started.

Amy Landino is on a mission to help you go after the life you want, starting with a morning routine that launches and grounds productive days.

Big changes are impressive, but great progress can be achieved by taking small actions consistently. Consider 5 small things to do every day for a more productive year.

This brief episode looks at four productive choices we can make during the holidays--and every day.

Now's a great time to think about a new planner for the coming year. In this week's episode we look at some things to consider in choosing (and using) a planner--including some great suggestions from the TPW community.

This week I'm talking with nutrition and wellness coach Dallas Heath about how intentional self-care helps her (and us) be more productive.

Attention management is a key productivity skill--and the subject of Maura Thomas's book, Attention Management.

Cultivating gratitude helps us be happier and more productive. Hear about a few more benefits of gratitude in this week's quick holiday-week episode.

London-based banking professional Helen Wright sets intentional boundaries between work, personal, and family commitments. We talk about what that means to her in this week's episode.

What are your favorite productivity tools? I'm sharing 10 of mine on this week's episode.

Do you ever feel disappointed in your own productivity? Me too. This week I'm sharing a few thoughts from my heart about productivity, disappointed expectations, and feeling better.