Rick Pastoor shares his tried and tested strategies for beating the calendar overwhelm so you can get back to what matters. 

— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) Why your calendar isn’t working–and how you can fix it 

2) Powerful questions to keep you on track 

3) The simple trick to knocking out your biggest tasks 

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— ABOUT RICK — 

Rick Pastoor has always liked experimenting at work. He’ll try things out, then keep what works, ditch what doesn’t. Try. Rinse. Repeat. In his time at Blendle, the New York Times-backed journalism startup, Rick steadily refined his methods. That’s where GRIP was born, a flexible collection of tools and insights that helped the team do their best work. 

Originally self-published in Dutch in 2019, GRIP became an overnight bestseller in Holland. Rick’s mission today is the same: helping people make smarter decisions about their time. He divides his own time between his young family in Amsterdam, giving talks on GRIP, his weekly newsletter “Work in Progress,” and a new startup, where he’s building a next-generation calendar called Rise. 

• App: Rise Calendar 

• Book: Grip: The Art of Working Smart (And Getting to What Matters Most) 

• Twitter: @rickpastoor 

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Blog: A List Apart 

• Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen 

• Book: How To Live On 24 Hours A Day by Arnold Bennett 

• Book: Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg 

• Previous episode: 015: David Allen, The World’s Leading Authority on Productivity 

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