Optimization is saving ten minutes in a meeting. Prioritization is asking whether the meeting needed to happen at all. In this episode, I walk through six places, work and personal, where I caught myself optimizing something I should have prioritized instead: my inbox, my meetings, my calendar, my sleep, my relationships, and even my grocery shopping.
In this episode:
- The relentless prioritization filter, and the three questions I run almost everything through
- Why a CC folder rule doesn't fix an over-copying problem on its own
- The research behind why fewer people in a meeting means better decisions, not just a shorter one
- Why an auto-blocked "focus time" on your calendar isn't the same as a real Design Day
- What changed when I quit Facebook, and how I keep my phone out of my bedroom entirely
- The narrowing-down move that saved me from scrolling three different grocery apps
The Relentless Prioritization Filter
- Does this reduce or eliminate a bottleneck or conflict?
- Does this eliminate a decision?
- Does this protect capacity or energy?
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On the Health-Powered Productivity Podcast, Marcey Rader, Certified Speaking Professional®, TEDx speaker, and five-time author, gives you practical tools for relentless prioritization, focus and attention management, meeting effectiveness, communication guardrails, and sustainable performance habits you'll actually keep. Each episode is short, specific, and ready to use with your team. From RaderCo, a high-performance speaking and consulting company. Proud to be named a Top 50 Productivity Podcast on Feedspot. Subscribe and share this episode with a teammate.
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