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Getting back to momentum

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The 3 steps to joyfully relate to a stressful or overwhelming project
10:43
The 3 steps to joyfully 💛 relate to a stressful or overwhelming project...
JP1 Get back on track in your business
6:08
Get back on track in your business 🙌🏾
JP2 Get back into creating content
9:54
Get back into creating content ✍🏽🎬
How to carve out enough time for the important biz actions such as 111 formula?
11:55
How to carve out enough time for the important biz actions, such as the 111 formula?
JP3 energetic boundaries with drama on social media
4:55
Social media drama - keeping your energetic boundaries...

Giving Energy vs Giving Value

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JP 1 Joyful Productivity recovers wasted time and allows us much greater impact
8:56
The Urgency of Joyful Productivity (prevents wasted time, allows much greater impact)
JP 2 Giving Energy vs Giving Value
16:44
Giving Energy vs Giving Value
What if we're giving value but not receiving energy back?
5:48
What if we're giving "value" but not receiving energy back?

The Deep Pleasure of Joyful Productivity

The peace of having a Hat Manual
11:26
The peace of having a Hat Manual
Deep Pleasure Joyful Productivity
15:55
The Deep Pleasure of Joyful Productivity

Strategies for Consistent Action

Consistency of Action - what's underneath your block or your ability to do it?
15:34
Consistency of Action - what's underneath your block (or your ability) towards getting there?
JP Consistency Strategies
20:04
Strategies for Consistent Action
JP Working lightly in our Offerings as well
3:52
Working lightly in your Offerings as well...
Intense time in your life - is it possible to still show up consistently?
4:26
Discussion: During an intense time in your life, is it possible to still show up consistently?

Enjoy to En-Joy

Enjoy to En-joy part 1
9:30
Introducing "Enjoy to En-Joy"
JoyPro bringing more joy into your work
14:34
Bringing joy into your work... (En-Joy the purpose of life...)

Reframing Work as Practice

JP1 Reframing Work as Practice - Part 1
12:26
Reframing Work as Practice - Part 1
JP2 What I am practicing when I get to work
10:36
Reframing Work as Practice - Part 2

The Process of Reaching Flow

JP1 Struggle of Flow
15:24
The Struggle of Flow
Flow practice diagram
13:18
The Flow Practice Diagram

Segment Your Work Time

JP1 segment your work time
12:08
Why it's so helpful to segment your work time (and how)
JoyPro larger perspective about timers and how to see using timers as purposeful
10:14
Larger perspective about timers, and how to see using timers as purposeful...

Challenges as Growth

JP1 My Rock -- Purpose as Growth
15:51
My Rock -- Purpose as Growth
JP2 Seeing challenges & hardships differently
15:08
Seeing challenges & hardships differently

The All Important Skill of Sleep

Sleep 1
15:48
SLEPT (my method)
Getting good sleep starts with a good evening routine
4:11
It starts with a good evening routine...
Sleep - best tips
15:50
Our best tips for sleep

It's Not Personal / Emotion & Motivation

JP1 Its not personal
15:56
Not personal... and how that helps with joyful productivity
JP1a Emotions keep us safe
3:26
Emotions are trying to keep us safe...
JP1b Mira on adding Awareness to Conscience
4:20
Mira on adding Awareness to Conscience
JP2 How do we then take action?
4:26
How do we then take action?
JP2 creation vs preparation
5:52
Creation vs preparation...
JP3 Group of Inner Mentors
6:26
Group of Inner Mentors

Dopamine Awareness

JP1 Dopamine awareness and how it relates to joyful productivity
12:24
Dopamine awareness, and how it relates to joyful productivity...
JP2 Managing dopamine for purposeful living eg Tiny Habits
5:53
Managing dopamine for purposeful living, eg Tiny Habits...
JP3 Dopamine and social media content posting and waiting for validation
2:27
Dopamine and social media content posting: waiting for validation
JP4 It's about balance
7:36
Learning balance with dopamine...

Yin / Yang of Joyful Productivity ☯️

JP1 Facing the reality of Life - Do hard things
21:06
🌞 Facing the reality of Life - do the hard things...
JP3 Equally true life prescription -- work lightly, don't make it harder than it needs to be
10:06
🌜 Equally true -- work lightly, don't make it harder than it needs to be 🌛
JP4 leading lightly Celina Tonkin
3:29
Leading lightly / you've already been preparing for [this moment]
JP5 Strict about showing up lenient about results gentle about refocusing Mira Rao
5:48
Strict about showing up... lenient about the results... gentle about refocusing

Your Dedicated Workspace

JP1 Do you have a dedicated workspace?
20:23
The importance of a dedicated workspace
JP2 Sound tiles
2:00
Sound tiles
JP3 Ergonomics is important too
2:00
Ergonomics is important too
JP5 Staying focused - ignoring the internal impulse to escape
5:25
Staying focused - ignoring the internal impulse to escape...

Healthier Boundaries for Joyful Productivity

JP1a our stories about saying No
0:55
Intro to Boundaries - what is your experience?
JP2 Spiritual perspective why we might have hard time with boundaries
5:23
Spiritual perspective -- why boundaries are hard & why are we here?
JP3 Many things don't actually need to be done
4:12
Many things don't actually need to be done...
JP4 You don't have to say Yes immediately
4:07
You don't have to say Yes immediately...
JP5 Carve out personal admin time
3:58
Carve out personal admin time...
JP6 Allow for their emotions and yours
4:35
Allow for their emotions... and yours.
JP7 PRogress with boundaries
3:14
Progress with boundaries 💪🏽
JP8 Sensitivity to alignment and a full body No
8:09
Sensitivity to alignment and a full body No...

Reframing the beginning anxiety of any work period

JP1 The beginning anxiety
23:11
Understanding & reframing the beginning anxiety of any work period
JP eve Crutch of tidying up or other action to get into momentum
8:58
The crutch of tidying up -- and other actions to get into momentum...
JP2 Getting stuck with a big project?
2:12
Getting stuck with a big project?
JP3 wait 90 seconds to flush out the neurochemicals
0:41
Just wait 90 seconds to flush out the neurochemicals
JP4 higher level of consciousness
1:02
Work with a higher level of consciousness

Practicing Precision with time & energy

JP1 Precision with our time investments
22:06
Practicing Precision with time & energy
0:00
The opposite of precision is basically flex days and flex time. The idea is precision is being conscious of investment. Of our energy, of our time. Lack of precision means once tire, it's starting to go like this, and then the entire car, the suspension, everything starts to go out of whack.
4:18
The Midjourney is a new series on CNN.com. This week, Jarrett ponders why we have to be so precise with our time. Why can't we just do whatever we want?
7:55
Every every master of art Not just science, but of art is precise. So your calendar is your canvas. Your life is your work of art. Are you going to be working towards precision like a master artist has? Or will you be an amateur all over the place?
11:51
Some of us, like me, naturally wake up early. So I have to have precision at night to see now I can't sleep at 2 AM like she does. I'm I'm trying to adjust my evening down to 10:10 to10:30 would be great. And then 10:15 would be even better. So what about you? What aspect of your calendar of your life would benefit from more precision?
15:38
So I can do that kind of 247 time tracking. But let me just give you a very more precise exercise is to look at the area of your life you would like to be more precise. Is it your evening routine? Is it Your morning routine? You get get easily get to 3 hours, 5 hours of writing a blog post. That's not precise enough.
19:07
I sometimes liken life to be like, a soul gym. We have such a limited time in this life. Just an afternoon, you get to spend in this gym. How will you use this life well? It requires precision.
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JP Seeing your life as a monastery
5:18
Monastery of Life
JP What about low energy days - still be precise?
5:15
What about low energy days... how to still be precise?
JP evening routine - precision with our attention
2:57
Evening routine - precision with our attention

Creating Quality & the Rhythm (and Quantity) of Output...

JP1 Intro to Quantity vs Quality
10:33
Intro to Quantity vs Quality
0:00
Alright. I'm actually recording this lesson after the one you got you're about to to hear. But I want I want you to watch this one first as a preamble because the one coming up is quite of an intense energy, hopefully an uplifting rant where I talk about I wish for you the urgency of the rhythm of output. The input hopefully is working lightly, practicing joyful productivity, and experimentation with your authenticity.
4:21
It's not up to you to say. It's up to them to say what's quality. Even as you work lightly, you don't work too hard on any one thing. I put out as much as possible because I'm always surprised. I I spent almost no effort on that. And that went viral. What? I spent a lot of effort on this, and nobody got it. I It's my life's work. Right? Like, no. This is madness. You're judging too fast.
JP2 Urgency of Rhythm of Output and apprenticeship to your authentic power
26:39
Urgency of the Rhythm of Output... and apprenticeship to your authentic power
JP3 The world needs more innocence
3:16
The world needs more innocence...
0:00
In the earlier segment, I talked about how the world needs more innocence. Too much of marketing and storytelling is a manipulation, like, conscious manipulation of I want you to feel this emotion and then that emotion.
JP4 5-15 years? It requires a level of privilege does it not?
5:32
5-15 years? It requires a level of privilege does it not?
0:00
The Buchanan said, there's a privilege in being able to spend 15 years not making much if any money. The reality of our world that money is necessary to survive. An authentic business is not one to be forced.
3:41
That's 15 hours a week plus 6. So you work 21 hours on your authentic business. That's that's pretty good. Now, I wish you could do more, but that's quite good. I didn't know she for homeschools 6 children, This is madness. This is I was like, you are super.

Developing a Steady Focus in Your Business

JP1 Steady focus requires FAR intentions
14:56
Steady focus requires FAR intentions...
JP2 Rhythm of output no matter life's ups & downs - a strong mind
10:41
Rhythm of output no matter life's ups & downs - a strong mind

Love Every Moment of Work

JP1 Love every moment of work
20:48
Love Every Moment of Work
JP2 We fall out of love constantly, and we can bring ourselves back to love
1:29
We fall out of love constantly... and we can always bring ourselves back to love.

Play & Playfulness at Work

JP Play & Playfulness at Work for solopreneurs
26:22
Play & Playfulness at Work

"This moment is enough." 🙏🏼

JP2a This is enough
7:09
This moment is enough.
JP2b Normalize the feelings when starting work - bring joyful productivity
3:09
Normalize the feelings when starting work - bring joyful productivity...

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