Last Updated on September 14, 2022
Do time management tips make you cringe?
Trying to manage your time and productivity can be exhausting. If you’ve been struggling with how to prioritize tasks or fine-tune your schedule and feel like you’re on a constant hamster wheel, you are not alone. Nearly everyone I know struggles with this, whether you’re an entrepreneur or not.
This is a two-parter, so if you’ve already listened to part one, let’s jump into part two!
If you missed last week’s episode, I shared why I don’t believe in hustle and how to work from a place of rest, alignment, and abundance. Listen to part one of this series here–it will set the stage for today’s episode and help you understand more of where I’m coming from and why this is so important.
Work with your energy rather than against it.
Here’s the thing: unless you learn to manage your energy, you will unknowingly undercut your productivity and progress every. single. time. It’s not just about the physical work and time management tips and techniques, but about the energy alignment.
Work with intention and mindfulness.
Creating mindful practices helps me shift into an abundant mindset, where I’m able to do my most deep, focused, and meaningful work, and ultimately achieve more by doing less.
Ready to do less and achieve more with these time management tips and productivity tools?

What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Why the quality of your work matters over quantity.
- How to manage your energy with productivity tools. Unless you learn how to do this, you will unknowingly undercut your productivity.
- Why working with intention is essential.
- How to prioritize your tasks and plan your day.
- Why you should get yourself a good paper planner, plus some tips on how to utilize it (including what to track, what NOT to track, and more).
- Some of my tried-and-true tips for maintaining work/life balance.
- The assessment tests I recommend to help you tune into your innate gifts and find what works for your specific personality.
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Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
[easyazon_link identifier=”0830846190″ locale=”US” tag=”rore0a-20″]The Road Back to You[/easyazon_link] by Ian Morgan Cron + Suzanne Stabile (Enneagram)
16 Personalities / Myers-Briggs Personality Testing (also refer to Episode 5 with Jessica Butts)
Gretchen Rubin’s 4 Tendencies
[easyazon_link identifier=”0801075262″ locale=”US” tag=”rore0a-20″]Free to Focus[/easyazon_link] by Michael Hyatt
[easyazon_link identifier=”1401955010″ locale=”US” tag=”rore0a-20″]Do Less[/easyazon_link] by Kate Northrup
[easyazon_link identifier=”0735211299″ locale=”US” tag=”rore0a-20″]Atomic Habits[/easyazon_link] by James Clear
[easyazon_link identifier=”1936661837″ locale=”US” tag=”rore0a-20″]Traction[/easyazon_link] by Gino Wickman
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This episode was a game changer! I’ve tried so many different productivity methods over the years and a lot of them have fallen short. I love your approach Kate to focus on the important things we need to accomplish and not allowing ourselves to get overwhelmed!
Hey Mara! I’m so happy you were able to take away some productivity tips from this episode. It’s so easy to overcrowd our plates with things we just don’t need to be putting our focus on.
Hi Kate. Thanks for a great episode. I was hoping to find a link to the moon calendar app you mentioned. I’ve tried a couple different ones, but they never have everything I need. Was curious if yours was better but didn’t see it in the short notes. Would you mind sharing?
Hi Renee! Thank you so much for tuning in – I’m so glad you loved it! I LOVE my moon calendar app. If you search in the app store “The Moon Calendar” it’s one of the first ones that pop up. The image will be a picture of a blue and white (almost marble looking) moon and it’s titled “The Moon Calendar.”