Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Beyond the To-Do List is a productivity podcast hosted by Erik Fisher. Each week, Erik sits down with experts, authors, and creatives to explore time management, habits, focus, deep work, work-life balance, mindset, and what it actually means to live and work well. The show has featured guests like David Allen, James Clear, Cal Newport, Gretchen Rubin, Seth Godin, and Daniel Pink — covering everything from getting th
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“I wrote about 13 things mentally strong people don't do. If you get rid of these things, your good habits become much more effective”
“He's a leadership researcher, a partner at the Wiseman Group, and the author of a new book called Pause”
“The leader of this firm's her name's Liz Wiseman. She wrote a book called Multipliers”
“Her new book is Resilient. Optimism. The science of sustaining a positive mindset. In tough times”
“They have a new book called Ultra Productive, the Ninety Minute Method to Optimize Focus. Sleep. And stress”
“And I don't know about you but when I first Um read. or at Deep Work, which came out ten years ago, I think”
“That instinct became smart brevity. It became a company. And now it's a book he's co written with his Axios co founders”
“I you know, everyone's probably read, you know, the top five books, you know, whether it's atomic habits or good to great or you know, and we've tried to implement what was in the book”
“I you know, everyone's probably read, you know, the top five books, you know, whether it's atomic habits or good to great or you know, and we've tried to implement what was in the book”
“My guest today is Jackie Kelly, author of So, You Married a Human, the totally doable, unconventional guide to a thriving partnership”
“It's Sarah Armstrong, author of The Art of the Juggling Act, Bite-sized guide for working parents”
“wrote a book prior to this book called The Mom's Guide to a Good Divorce”
“the productivity project and hyper focus and how and how to calm your mind each one a little bit more wide than the last one”
“he's got a new one out now called intentional how to finish what you start and it kind of reaches back and pulls all of it together”
“Lauren Vandercam, whose most recent book, Big Time, is about time scarcity is actually a bit of a fallacy”
“two of my books, Hyper Focus and the Productivity Project, sawed the spines off of them, scanned every single page and used that to code their models”
“two of my books, Hyper Focus and the Productivity Project, sawed the spines off of them, scanned every single page and used that to code their models”
“she has a new book called Prioritize Play. Express your creativity, boost your confidence, and foster deeper connection”
“So uh here's what made me want to have this conversation. So back in January, and I know you know this, uh I did a solo episode on agency versus the illusion of control, how to be On top of things. Uh how um How Trying to be on top of things quietly turns into your self-worth and your your purpose and then we all know what happens. A a a disruptive week starts to feel like a personal failure. And you emailed me and basically you said, look The failure is almost never the system. It's i”
“one of my favorite books is The Gap in the Game. Highly recommend it. You know, for for anyone uh listening”
“So uh the new book is the second edition of the creativity leap and It's got a brand new chapter on working alongside AI”
“Between the two of them, you've basically drawn what I look at as like a map. And the creativity leap says creativity is toggling between wonder and rigor. But move think rest is how The movement, the thought the rest. Make that Toggle possible”
“Catherine May's book Wintering and it reframed this whole idea of dormancy for you”
“His new book written with the biographer David Ritz is Love. Johnny Carson”
“and her new book, Big Time, A Simple Path to Time Abundance, might be her most important argument yet”
“You've written A hundred and sixty eight hours”
“Tranquility by Tuesday”
“reading much like this the Odyssey. Or a translation of the Odyssey, the best known translation”
“You Somewhat take on Oliver Berkman pretty directly in his from his book and and you know, in his four thousand weeks”
“He's the author of Start Finishing, How to Go From Idea to Done”
“revisiting a deep dive conversation we had on his book Team Habits, How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results”
“The one book that I can kind of think of that everybody kind of addresses when it comes to personal habits is Atomic Habits by James Clear”
“Teresa Amabile in the Progress Principal wrote that it's the small setbacks that happen fairly frequently that have an outsized impact on our morale”
“it brought this episode back to mind about her book, One Minute Mentoring, that she co-authored with leadership expert Ken Blanchard”
“I really did think about your book, Design Your Day, as well as the present principle and the role that those play in this whole mentoring relationship”
“I really did think about your book, Design Your Day, as well as the present principle and the role that those play in this whole mentoring relationship”
“Cal Newport, in digital minimalism, his book, makes a point that I think is right”
“Nir Eal, who's also been on the show about his book, Indistractable, he makes this point really well”
“I went and like, I don't know, I read Harry Potter because all I knew how to do was read, right”
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