

Your Time, Your Way
Carl Pullein
Showing you ways to get control of your time through tested techniques that will give you more time to do the things you want to do.
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Oct 11, 2026 • 14min
Are You Busy With Things You No Longer Care About?
Are your routines still moving you toward the life you want? This conversation explores rebuilding your calendar, recognizing commitments that no longer inspire you, and experimenting with a more satisfying daily rhythm. It covers auditing personal obligations, identifying non-negotiables, protecting activities that bring joy, and making space for meaningful change.

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Oct 4, 2026 • 13min
How to Get Back On Track When the Wheels Come Off
When personal crises and professional demands derail even the best productivity system, how do you recover? Explore practical ways to pause the chaos, identify essential commitments, negotiate deadlines, clear unnecessary meetings, and regain perspective through movement. A focused one-week reset helps restore control when the workload starts spiraling.

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Sep 27, 2026 • 17min
The Annual Planning Season Kick Off
Turn vague New Year’s resolutions into a focused plan for a more productive and fulfilling year. Explore five powerful planning questions covering habits, lifestyle, work, challenges, and measurable goals. Discover how brainstorming, writing ideas down, and involving loved ones can prepare the ground for meaningful change.

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Sep 20, 2026 • 14min
Why Time Blocking Keeps Failing You
Why does time blocking keep falling apart? This conversation explores the habits, boundaries, and routines that turn protected work periods into productive customs. Topics include handling overflowing workloads, using deadlines to sharpen focus, resisting interruptions, planning tomorrow’s priorities, and leaving enough space for unexpected demands.

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Sep 13, 2026 • 16min
The Productive Power Of A Proper Tea Break
Proper tea and lunch breaks may be the missing pieces in modern workdays. This discussion explores how disappearing daily rhythms, constant context switching, and nonstop firefighting drain mental energy. It also covers meeting buffers, slower thinking, planning tomorrow on paper, time-blocking important work, and setting boundaries that protect focus.

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Sep 6, 2026 • 18min
How To Fix The Top 5 Productivity and Time Management Pain Points
What are the five biggest productivity struggles faced by hundreds of coaching clients? This conversation explores tool overload, constant interruptions, unclear priorities, inconsistent planning, and the overwhelm of competing commitments. It also covers protecting focused work, handling messages intentionally, negotiating deadlines, and creating simple rules to keep information and responsibilities organized.

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Aug 30, 2026 • 13min
Are You Overcommitted Without Realising It?
A practical look at how hidden commitments create overwhelm and backlog. Simple math shows when capacity is exceeded and why stress follows. Tips on saying no, capping and shortening meetings, and cutting admin friction. Clear guidance on delegating or dropping obligations to reclaim real time.

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Aug 23, 2026 • 14min
Why Everything Feels Like It Needs to Be Done Today
A look at why tasks feel urgent and how your mindset shapes busyness. Learn the value of tracking 48 hours to see where time actually goes. Discover creating firm daily boundaries, start and end work rituals, and batching communications. Hear practical ways to turn routines into systems that beat procrastination.

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Aug 16, 2026 • 15min
Why You Never Have Time for Your Most Important Work
A discussion about how overflowing calendars push out your most important work. Practical ideas for deciding which commitments to accept and how each one increases hidden time costs. A fuel-tank metaphor to explain why leaving intentional buffer time prevents burnout and mistakes. Tips for auditing, delegating, and gradually cutting meeting load to protect focused work.

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Aug 9, 2026 • 14min
Why You’re Too Tired to Plan Tomorrow
They dig into decision fatigue and how your brain’s executive center gets worn out from constant choices. They explain why trying to plan at night often fails when you are depleted. They discuss pre-deciding core work, time-blocking, and protecting focus with Do Not Disturb. They cover routines, if-then rules, and simple processes that automate daily choices.


