The Liz Moody Podcast The Sneaky Ways You Waste Your Life: Optimize Your Time, Do Less, & Have More Fun
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Dec 3, 2025 
Join Oliver Burkeman, an author and journalist renowned for his insights on time management, as he shares his unconventional wisdom on productivity. Discover how embracing your limitations can free you from the pressure to always optimize. He offers practical tips like the Reverse Golden Rule for self-compassion and argues for prioritizing daily-ish habits over perfection. Oliver emphasizes living in the moment, letting go of discomfort, and choosing intuitively. He encourages you to spend ten minutes today doing something meaningful without planning—just dive in!
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Pick A Path, Then Own It
- Choose a direction and commit; the exact choice rarely matters as much as making one.
- Pick a path, then make the best of it instead of ruminating over perfection.
Keep Few Priorities Active
- Limit work-in-progress: pick 2–3 priorities and make others wait in the corridor.
- Finish defined subparts to build momentum and reduce multitasking costs.
Chunk Tasks For Momentum
- Use timers and chunk big projects into 10–25 minute tasks to beat resistance.
- Complete many small concrete tasks to get dopamine from progress toward large goals.
