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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons that you can reflect on in your journal so you can grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we are going to talk about how to get more done in our day through task stacking. In this new economy that we have, it’s going to be ideas and executing on those ideas that will help us get the life that we desire. If you don’t know, data is now worth more than oil.
There is a lot of information out in the world, but it is going to require a different mindset that can put all the pieces together like a puzzle. To help me get these new ideas in my head, I use a technique called task stacking.
Task stacking works when you pair a shallow thinking task with a deep-thinking task. Pretty much every morning I go for a 45 walk, and while I go for my walk, I’m listening to one of my podcasts. And if I come across an idea that will help me or someone else, what I do is go to my Evernote App and I write down the idea in my blog post notebook where I keep all my future ideas.
Walking is a shallow thinking task because I can pretty much do it on autopilot. I don’t really require me to think too hard, which allows me to really focus on the podcast. Then I grab a cup of coffee and enjoy my coffee while I listen to my podcast. When I clean or doing laundry, then I listen to a podcast. Both tasks don’t require my full attention and I can pay attention to the podcast.
When I go to an appointment and need to wait, then I pull up my Kindle app and start reading a book. I’m going to be waiting anyway and might as well take advantage of that time and it’s better than scrolling on social media.
The way I use task tasking is by leveraging my time where I can get two benefits at once. And since this new economy needs ideas, then I need to consume information that will give me ideas. All my ideas that I’ve come up with have come from consuming new podcast episodes and books.
If I can figure out a way to do something faster or help me generate more business, I need to have that thing in my life. I also don’t like to do laundry anyways and if I pair it with podcasts, then I’m going to do my laundry. It really just takes one new idea or insight to change your life. When I was at my last financial planning firm, I would listen to podcasts while I drove to my appointments. One of the podcasts that I listen to was the Financial Advisor Success Podcast with Michael Kitces and that podcast gave me insights on how to start a new firm.
Another task stacking that I enjoy is going on for walks with people. This way I’m exercising and I get to catch-up with that person. So when you’re doing something, ask yourself if you can pair it with something else to make your life better like listening to music while writing.
One thing you don’t want to do with task tasking is pair a deep thinking task with a shallow thinking task. Listening to a podcast while I do my school work does not work for me because I can’t concentrate properly on both tasks. Do this is like driving a car with a flat tire, you’re still moving but you’re not going as fast as you can while using more energy. So look at your life and see how you can multiply the value through task stacking
And that’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, task stacking is when you pair a shallow thinking task like walking or doing chores with a deep-thinking task like talking to someone, reading a book, or listening to a podcast. This way you’re getting new insights and ideas on how to improve your life. Data is going to be very valuable in this new economy that we’re in, and we need to make sure we have the creativity to manage it. You have to be able to see connections between two or more variables so that you make things more efficient or developed under-valued assets. Plus it opens up your mind to new possibilities and can make you more empathetic. We don’t learn everything we need to learn by kindergarten, we have to be life learners and hopefully, this is the reason why you listen to this podcast.
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