# 162 | How To Enhance Your Productivity with Tips, Tactics & AI

Busy is the baseline. The “I was drowning” & “I got to busy” excuses are overplayed. Leveraging your time is making small changes that lead to a big difference. Paula Rizzo, an Emmy-award winning TV producer and author of Listful Thinking, helps others become more productive by leveraging their strengths and freeing up their time. She joined us to share some of her tried and true tricks including how she’s introduced AI to supercharge her productivity.

Paula swears by making to-do lists during her wind down routine at the end of her work day. Did you know that writing your tasks down makes you 33% more likely to remember and actually do them? WILD! If you’ve been relying solely on apps, consider adding a good ole fashion pen and paper to your desk. Paula does leverage tech when she’s on the go – using apps like Whisper memos to capture ideas and PI to help her think out loud. Imagine coming home from a walk with your entire newsletter dictated and ready to be edited on a screen. Genius!

We also chatted about the sticky issue of tasks that just hang around on your list but never actually get tackled. Paula suggests questioning whether those tasks are truly necessary or if they can be delegated. Sometimes we hold onto to-dos that aren’t really ours to keep, and letting them go can be incredibly freeing! These small shifts could make a huge difference in how you manage your time and energy and ultimately the way you live your life.

Want To Skip Around? Timestamps:

10:30 How to craft a good todo list

16:16 Batching your tasks and planning your week

20:25 Using AI to help you push past procrastination

26:35 What AI tools Paula is using

28:54 How to handle tasks that never get done

33:38 Common productivity roadblock

36:15 Defining productivity

40:30 Homework from Paula

Links Mentioned:

List-Making Starter Kit

Paula Rizzo’s Courses – https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/paula-rizzo

Tools:

Whisper memos – https://whispermemos.com/

PI – https://pi.ai/onboarding

Voxer – https://www.voxer.com/

Libby app – For audiobooks – https://libbyapp.com/

People To Follow:

Heidi Hanna – https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidihanna/

Books To Read:

Gretchen Ruben – the happiness project – https://gretchenrubin.com/books/the-happiness-project/

Homework: Listen to a nonfiction audio book

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