The Time Academy Podcast

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 20 - Your Priorities Are What You Do The Episode at a Glance * Our priorities are what we do, not what we say or think. * Many people struggle with this, saying one thing whilst their actions tell a different story.  * So, what priorities are you actuall...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 19 - Time Defaults The Episode at a Glance * Much of our lives are lived through default behaviour (habits, routines, rituals...). * Such behaviour can become so ingrained that we hardly notice it. * And yet it can highly condition how we allocate our time an...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 18 - Finding Balance The Episode at a Glance * Life is in many ways a quest for balance. * How balanced do you feel your life it? * What part of your life is getting the short straw? * What might you do about it? * In short, where might you benefit from more...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 17 - Morning Routines & Crafting Your Day The Episode at a Glance * We clearly don't know what a particular day may hold or what might best prepare us for that day. * And yet, it is clear that there probably are ways of better preparing for whatever that...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 16 - How do I Allocate Time? Part II The Episode at a Glance * This episode builds on and works with the same basic concepts as the previous episode so if you haven't listened to that yet my invitation is to do so now. Click here to listen: https://www.tomole...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 15 - How do I Allocate Time? Part I The Episode at a Glance * Whether we realise it or not we are continually answering the question of How do I Allocate Time? * And yet, are we aware of how exactly we make these decisions? * For example, how will you decide...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 14 - How Are Your Physical Environments Affecting You? The Episode at a Glance * Is place important to you? * For example, does it matter where you work? * Is one office the same as another? * In reality, our physical environments affect not only our health b...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 13 - Making the World Too Small The Episode at a Glance * The idea of making the world too small is inspired by the poet David Whyte and yet the concept is eternal. * It is about the conversations we choose to have with ourselves and others, and equally impor...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 12 -Doing versus Accomplishing The Episode at a Glance * Whilst often used almost interchangeably, when you start unpicking Doing and Accomplishing you realise that they can lead to two very different life paths. * Imagine, instead of having a to-do list, you...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 11 - How is Past Experience Affecting You? The Episode at a Glance * We may think the past is past and so is gone and yet we are ultimately products of the past. * Our habits are memories of past experiences, our schedules are past commitments over our time,...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 10 - Time Tenses: Past, Present and Future The Episode at a Glance * How much of your time do you feel you spend in the present? * What hold does the past have over you? * In fact, what hold does the future have over you? * Does one of the three tenses have m...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 9 - To-do Lists and Stress The Episode at a Glance * To-do lists are supposed to be helpful, right? * Sure, given our complex lives, they can help calm our brains, which have a tendency to hang on to the undone and the unfinished. * And yet, for many people t...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 8 - Urgent vs. Important The Episode at a Glance * The distinction between what is urgent and what is important goes to the heart of any discussion on time and productivity. * In fact, how do you distinguish? * Also let's not forget that everyone has their ow...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 7 - Resetting Expectations The Episode at a Glance * What do you expect from this podcast episode? * How does it help to build up a mental picture in advance? * And yet that is what many of us do all day by building up pictures of how we would like the future...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 6 - Play and Creativity The Episode at a Glance * Why have an episode on playfulness? * What a waste of time! Adults are too busy to play. Right? * In practice, however, if we are too busy trying to crack a problem head on because we don’t have time for seemi...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 5 - Not All Hours Are Created Equal The Episode at a Glance * Not all hours are created equal and yet we often act as if they are, randomly scheduling activities throughout the day. * And yet this seemingly simple task of scheduling 'what when' can have a dir...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 4 - Hard Work and Morality The Episode at a Glance * The hard work mantra so prized by many may no longer be fit for purpose for modern knowledge workers. * Different attitudes and approaches to work may be more beneficial depending on what outcomes are being...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 3 - Productivity and Not Being Enough The Episode at a Glance * Ever feel like no matter how much you do there is still so much more to get done? *For many people, to-do lists are eternal with the focus on what hasn’t been done creating a sense of being incom...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 2 -Thinking About Timescales The Episode at a Glance * At what timescale are you playing? * Playing with timescales allows you to create a vision (set a goal if you like) in one timescale and then focus on process in the shorter ones (habits, routines, ritual...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. Welcome to Episode 1 - What Represents a Good Life For You? The Episode at a Glance * This may feel a little off topic for a podcast primarily delving into time and productivity but the truth is that we spend much of our time, energy and attention answering this question in our...

The Time Academy Podcast with Tom O'Leary is a time management podcast that asks questions of our relationship with time. What question do you not want to be asked? The Time Academy Podcast offers a series of short reflections on time, productivity, creativity, accomplishment and much more. I share some of my own insights but most importantly I leave you with some questions that might offer a slig...