Sustainable Productivity

What does biochemistry have to do with sleep? What if I told you that sleep is linked to a more Sustainably Productivity life? On this week's episode you can learn about what is happening in our bodies when we sleep, why shift workers are more prone to obesity, and why cravings for fat and salt happen more often when you are sleep deprived than when you are rested. The episode wraps up with a...

People are surprised to learn that Susan doesn't track phone usage. Getting rid of your phone is often one of the first strategies articles about productivity offer.  We are bombarded with messages that we need to change just about everything about our lives in order to become a better person, starting with detaching our phone from our lives. This episode is about how Susan came to that...

This episode is about one of Susan's favorite things in the world - books! Reading is one of Susan's favorite hobbies, and hobbies are a component of the Mental Well-being dimension of Sustainable Productivity. On average, Susan reads about 15-20 books a month, but the recap provided in the episode is limited to the books that stood out because just running down every book each month would be the...

This episode is for those who are tired of carrying the meal planning load. Meal planning burnout is no joke. When you can't even believe your people need to eat AGAIN and you just want to pretend dinner is not a thing, hit play on this episode. You will hear about four strategies that are working for Susan right now to make tedious meal planning a little more sustainable. At the end there are thr...

Sustainable Productivity can be the answer to burnout and its soul sucking after effects. In this introduction to the burnout recovery principles, listeners will hear what Sustainable Productivity is NOT. Then Susan introduces two key questions to ask in order to make habit changes for short and long term habit change that sticks. Floating through life aimlessly can reduce your quality of life jus...

Stress has always been a part of our lives - since the beginning of time. How we have handled it has changed, leading us to the breaking point we live in today. The pace of life is no longer sustainable and we are avoiding addressing the elephant in the living room - our response to stress. Stress will never go away, the problem is in how we manage it. In this episode you will learn about how stre...