012 Productivity and Its Relationship to Integrity – ProductivityCast

Source: Google               "If the things we believe in are different than the things we do, there can be no true happiness." —Dana Telford The ProductivityCast team tackles the concept of integrity and its relationship to your productivity system. Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Francis Wade Show Notes Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. 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The time coding is h:mm:ss.ms to h:mm:ss.ms (e.g., 0:00:00.000,0:00:04.000 starts at 0.00 seconds and ends at 4 seconds in the cast's audio). 0:00:00.000,0:00:04.110 are you ready to manage your work and 0:00:02.159,0:00:06.000 personal world better to live a more 0:00:04.110,0:00:07.109 fulfilling productive life then you've 0:00:06.000,0:00:09.809 come to the right place 0:00:07.109,0:00:12.540 welcome to productivity cast the weekly 0:00:09.809,0:00:15.000 show about all things productivity here 0:00:12.540,0:00:16.800 are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and 0:00:15.000,0:00:19.230 Augusto Pinaud 0:00:16.800,0:00:21.869 hello again productivity enthusiasts 0:00:19.230,0:00:23.670 this is productivity cast the weekly 0:00:21.869,0:00:25.410 show about all things personal 0:00:23.670,0:00:27.090 productivity I'm Ray Sidney-Smith and 0:00:25.410,0:00:30.529 I'm joined here today with Augusto 0:00:27.090,0:00:34.200 Pinaud and Francis Wade welcome guys 0:00:30.529,0:00:37.410 good to be here good morning Ray's great 0:00:34.200,0:00:38.850 we have a fantastic show today we are 0:00:37.410,0:00:41.129 going to be talking a little bit 0:00:38.850,0:00:43.170 philosophically today not that we don't 0:00:41.129,0:00:46.320 philosophically talk on most episodes 0:00:43.170,0:00:48.870 right but but today we're gonna be 0:00:46.320,0:00:52.170 talking about productivity and its 0:00:48.870,0:00:54.120 relationship to integrity and what I 0:00:52.170,0:00:57.420 wanted us to do is to start off with a 0:00:54.120,0:00:58.980 discussion about how we actually define 0:00:57.420,0:01:01.440 integrity because I think it's actually 0:00:58.980,0:01:05.820 very different from person to person in 0:01:01.440,0:01:10.110 terms of what integrity is I think for 0:01:05.820,0:01:13.159 me integrity means having a system that 0:01:10.110,0:01:17.220 is complete so that nothing is missing 0:01:13.159,0:01:19.979 that there are no elements that are out 0:01:17.220,0:01:21.740 of place but I find with a lot of my 0:01:19.979,0:01:24.479 clients and people that train is that 0:01:21.740,0:01:27.590 their systems are are for the most part 0:01:24.479,0:01:29.460 self developed or self created and 0:01:27.590,0:01:31.409 somewhere in their teens they put 0:01:29.460,0:01:34.799 together a bunch of habits practices and 0:01:31.409,0:01:37.170 tools and they come into adulthood and 0:01:34.799,0:01:38.430 sometimes in late adulthood never really 0:01:37.170,0:01:41.369 having examined what they put together 0:01:38.430,0:01:44.220 and as a result sometimes something is 0:01:41.369,0:01:46.290 missing so for example I'm working with 0:01:44.220,0:01:47.430 one client one trainee who told me that 0:01:46.290,0:01:50.369 you know she was feeling really guilty 0:01:47.430,0:01:52.939 because she couldn't remember all of her 0:01:50.369,0:01:56.340 tasks and I said well you probably 0:01:52.939,0:01:57.659 outlive and outstrip the boundaries of 0:01:56.340,0:01:59.850 your memory you probably need to use 0:01:57.659,0:02:01.860 something totally different like writing 0:01:59.850,0:02:05.009 it down or capturing it on a smartphone 0:02:01.860,0:02:07.290 or using some recording device or 0:02:05.009,0:02:09.660 something and she said oh I didn't 0:02:07.290,0:02:12.660 realize that she thought that she needed 0:02:09.660,0:02:13.890 to use her memory so for her being all 0:02:12.660,0:02:15.660 of integrity menu 0:02:13.890,0:02:18.600 a system for capturing that couldn't 0:02:15.660,0:02:20.940 keep up with the demands on her life so 0:02:18.600,0:02:23.790 for me integrity is having all of the 0:02:20.940,0:02:26.970 elements in place and having a complete 0:02:23.790,0:02:29.040 set that works for the individual that 0:02:26.970,0:02:33.600 makes a lot of sense and I think a lot 0:02:29.040,0:02:37.320 of people miss the idea that one can 0:02:33.600,0:02:41.250 have their system and still have areas 0:02:37.320,0:02:43.350 that need to improve and if you are in 0:02:41.250,0:02:45.750 some way shape or form feeling pain in a 0:02:43.350,0:02:47.730 part of your life then that means the 0:02:45.750,0:02:49.980 system itself is potentially lacking 0:02:47.730,0:02:51.690 integrity and and is something that can 0:02:49.980,0:02:55.620 be worked on and we'll talk about that 0:02:51.690,0:02:59.489 later in this episode integrity is do 0:02:55.620,0:03:02.100 what you said you were going to do when 0:02:59.489,0:03:07.080 you said you were going to do it it 0:03:02.100,0:03:09.810 sounds simple but it is of people with 0:03:07.080,0:03:13.050 listening today Pro one of the hardest 0:03:09.810,0:03:15.840 thing to do and when you're going to 0:03:13.050,0:03:19.440 talk about productivity systems and 0:03:15.840,0:03:21.690 integrity conscious or not that is the 0:03:19.440,0:03:24.690 reason that make people start looking 0:03:21.690,0:03:27.239 for a better productivity system or for 0:03:24.690,0:03:29.430 the first productivity system is the 0:03:27.239,0:03:31.739 fact that they are saying they are going 0:03:29.430,0:03:34.320 to accomplish they are going to do or 0:03:31.739,0:03:37.079 they are going to deliver things that 0:03:34.320,0:03:39.480 are not happening right now and they are 0:03:37.079,0:03:42.299 not happening at the time they're even 0:03:39.480,0:03:47.430 offering them or they're not happening 0:03:42.299,0:03:49.860 at all and they need to match what is 0:03:47.430,0:03:51.570 happening in their life with what they 0:03:49.860,0:03:52.200 are saying it should be happening in 0:03:51.570,0:03:54.540 their life 0:03:52.200,0:03:56.610 now as Francis said with his person 0:03:54.540,0:03:59.070 trying to remember everything the 0:03:56.610,0:04:02.579 problem is not if she was forgetting or 0:03:59.070,0:04:06.570 not forgetting and the problem is she 0:04:02.579,0:04:10.230 knows out of her integrity or his 0:04:06.570,0:04:12.480 integrity that he or she wasn't doing 0:04:10.230,0:04:14.970 what she was saying that she was going 0:04:12.480,0:04:18.060 to do at the time that she was going to 0:04:14.970,0:04:21.209 do and that is the reason most people 0:04:18.060,0:04:24.890 look desperate into productivity is to 0:04:21.209,0:04:26.160 be able to work with that integrity 0:04:24.890,0:04:30.750 hello 0:04:26.160,0:04:35.330 and to be able to be more effective on 0:04:30.750,0:04:38.450 the send people is not looking to cross 0:04:35.330,0:04:43.320 instead of ten items out of their least 0:04:38.450,0:04:46.200 25 450 or more people is looking to 0:04:43.320,0:04:49.950 match what they said they were going to 0:04:46.200,0:04:52.590 do with what they are actually doing and 0:04:49.950,0:04:55.410 that what they are trying to do in a 0:04:52.590,0:04:58.680 more simpler way is try to match these 0:04:55.410,0:05:00.900 or to bring integrity to the table 0:04:58.680,0:05:04.670 and do what they are actually trying to 0:05:00.900,0:05:04.670 are saying that they're going to do I 0:05:05.690,0:05:12.150 see integrity as an alignment of a 0:05:10.230,0:05:15.090 complete system sort of the alignment 0:05:12.150,0:05:16.950 and commitment to a complete system and 0:05:15.090,0:05:20.430 I think that's really important for 0:05:16.950,0:05:23.370 people to truly be trusting of their 0:05:20.430,0:05:25.920 system right because integrity increases 0:05:23.370,0:05:28.380 trust both in an in an interpersonal 0:05:25.920,0:05:31.410 perspective right if you if you believe 0:05:28.380,0:05:34.320 someone lives with integrity you believe 0:05:31.410,0:05:37.740 they live with some moral code some 0:05:34.320,0:05:39.150 sense of ethics and therefore they are 0:05:37.740,0:05:42.510 they have the sort of moral uprightness 0:05:39.150,0:05:45.300 in personal productivity it's really a 0:05:42.510,0:05:47.700 relationship with yourself and others to 0:05:45.300,0:05:50.810 getting things done and I believe it's 0:05:47.700,0:05:53.880 that that alignment and commitment to 0:05:50.810,0:05:55.290 the systems that you've created that are 0:05:53.880,0:05:59.970 really important in personal 0:05:55.290,0:06:03.300 productivity so how does one integrate 0:05:59.970,0:06:05.010 personal productivity systems into their 0:06:03.300,0:06:07.890 life so that their there is this 0:06:05.010,0:06:10.320 wholeness and this relationship that 0:06:07.890,0:06:12.950 that seems to be right if you want to 0:06:10.320,0:06:16.830 call it that versus wrong in your life 0:06:12.950,0:06:19.170 my opinion is that most people don't go 0:06:16.830,0:06:21.240 past complaining so they don't they 0:06:19.170,0:06:23.490 don't deal with themselves from the 0:06:21.240,0:06:26.610 point of view that their integrity is 0:06:23.490,0:06:28.680 important enough to stop complaining so ...