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A Productive Conversation

Hosted by productivity strategist Mike Vardy, A Productive Conversation offers insightful discussions on how to craft a life that aligns with your intentions. Each episode dives into the art of time devotion, productiveness, and refining your approach to daily living. Mike invites guests who are thinkers, doers, and creators to share their strategies for working smarter and living more intentionally. From practical tips to deep dives on mindset shifts, this podcast will help you reframe your…

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The Jolts That Make Us Quit — and the Ones Worth Ignoring (with Anthony Klotz)

My next book, Productiveness, arrives this September. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more. Most of us don't drift into quitting a job. Something happens — a single, identifiable moment — and that's when the…

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The Difference Between an Aha Moment and a Full-Blown Epiphany (PM Talks S3E8)

My next book, Productiveness, arrives this September. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more. This month's PM Talks starts with a confession: I've had an epiphany, and I don't use that word lightly. Somewhere between an…

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Why Logic Alone Can't Explain the Human Mind (with Tom Griffiths)

My next book, Productiveness, arrives this September. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more. Logic is beautiful and it's also almost never enough. That's the tension running through this entire conversation — the idea…

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Why "Life Is" Might Be the Only Sentence You Need (with Gary John Bishop)

My next book, Productiveness, arrives this September. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more. There's a two-word sentence that's been sitting with me since I finished this book, and I haven't been able to shake it: life…

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The Goal Was Never Inbox Zero (It Was a Quiet Mind)

My next book, Productiveness, arrives this September. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more. Inbox zero was never about the number. That's the part almost everybody forgets. When Merlin Mann coined the term in the early…

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Why Procrastination Is Emotional, Not a Discipline Problem (with Robin J Emdon)

My next book, Productiveness, arrives this September. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more. We tend to treat procrastination like a willpower leak — something we could plug if we just tried harder, planned better, or…

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Within Tolerance (PM Talks S3E7)

My next book, Productiveness, arrives this September. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more. Patrick Rhone joins me again for the latest installment of our monthly PM Talks series, and this month we landed on a word…

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Why You Can't Outwork Bad Sleep (with Shimin Ooi)

My next book, Productiveness, arrives this September. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more. We tend to treat sleep like the thing we'll get to once everything else is handled — the line item we trim first when life…

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What You're Not Measuring Is Costing You (with Dr. Henry Cloud)

My next book, Productiveness, arrives this September. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more. Most of us have convinced ourselves that the problem is effort. We're not working hard enough, moving fast enough, or checking…

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Paying Attention to Your Attention

My next book, Productiveness, arrives this September. It's about the difference between doing more and doing what matters, and how we lost the ability to tell them apart. I'll send the release date the day it's set. Visit https://mikevardy.com/productiveness to learn more. Most of the conversation around focus starts in the wrong place. We talk about distraction as if it's the problem — the…

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