Productivity & Time Management For High Achievers With Mridu Parikh 488

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Ready to get control of your demands and distractions? Then you need to meet today’s guest, Mridu Parikh. The founder of Life Is Organized, Mridu is a time management guru passionate about teaching business owners how to focus, get out of the weeds, and take back control of their day.

Her best-selling book, Accomplish It, and Productivity On Purpose podcast share simple strategies to ditch mental drama – from procrastination to perfectionism. Mridu’s teachings on mastering tasks and habits have been featured in The Huffington Post, Forbes, US News & World Report, and Real Simple.

When she’s not wrangling a list or schedule, you can usually find this former professional organizer turned productivity pro with her two teens and one husband in Nashville enjoying a Malbec

2:24 How Mridu started productivity and time management 

4:25 When you are ready to go for the week and you’re feeling super motivated but get hit with a problem in the office first thing Monday morning — What do you do?! 

6:05 How do you move into a more mindful morning routine? 

7:20 How much of the “ideal” morning routine is total nonsense? 

11:11 The top productivity tip to change someone from a super procrastinator to someone very efficient is … 

14:56 All about people being control freaks! And tips for letting go of the perfectionism 

17:15 Recommended productivity tools to help other people!  

19:07 Tips for the end of the day work routine

23:23 Managing the things that are out of your control and frustrating because it throws everything off 

Jim’s Hack: Set Loom at 1.7X for listening speed.

Mridu’s Tip: “What will make me feel most successful when my head hits the pillow tonight?” ask yourself this question everyday. And use a Timecube like this one to help you stay focused. 

Tyson’s Tip: Have an agenda for each meeting you have in the calendar invite. 

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Transcript: Productivity & Time Management For High Achievers With Mridu Parikh 488

Speaker 1
Run your law firm the right way. This is the maximum lawyer podcast, podcast, your hosts, Jim hacking and Tyson metrics. Let’s partner up and maximize your firm. Welcome to the show.

Jim Hacking
Welcome back to the maximum lawyer Podcast. I’m Jim hacking.

Tyson Mutrux
And I’m Tyson metrics. What’s up Jimmy?

Jim Hacking
Oh, Tyson, you know, I have a funny story for you, you know, I keep throwing out these measurements of weight loss and stuff. But money reminded me I thought that I lost my wedding ring. But it actually I was too fat to wear it. So now it finally fit. So now I have our original wedding band on it has a manies name written on it on the inside. So I’m pretty excited about that.

Tyson Mutrux
That’s really cool. Because I thought you were going to tell me that you’d lost so much weight that it fell off your hand and you’d lost it that way. But you actually it’s the reverse. You lost so much weight that you’re able to wear it again. That’s pretty darn cool. Yeah. Very cool. Well, congratulations, you’ve Alright, is it 70 pounds? Is that what it stereo? Or is it more than that? Now? It’s 70. Yep. That is incredible. It’s really interesting. The number of people and I’m sure you’ve gotten this because your results have been way, way better than my results since day. 175. Hard. But I have people reaching out to me, I’d say three, four times a week about it. I bet you’ve gotten a lot of people say hey, do what you think about 75 hard and I just say, Listen, if you’re thinking about it, you’re prepared to do it, do it.

Jim Hacking
I needed it for sure I needed it. It was a good wake up call. And it got me reset. And I’m really grateful that you suggested that I do it.

Tyson Mutrux
Well, it was suggested by Christopher Nikolay Santa Paula, goodbye, this. But yeah, a lot of other people that encouraged us. But let’s go ahead and get to our guest this week. It’s really Pareek and she is the founder of Life Is Organized. Marie Lu is a time management guru, passionate about teaching business owners how to focus, get out of the weeds and take back control of their day, or bestselling book accomplish it and productivity on purpose. Podcast shares, simple strategies to ditch mental drama from procrastination to perfectionism. Reduce teaching on mastering tasks and habits have been featured in the Huffington Post, Forbes US News, and World Report. And real simple radio. Welcome to the show.

Mridu Parikh
Thank you. And you nailed my name, Tyson. That was awesome. I appreciate that. And thanks for having me.

Jim Hacking
Matthew, we’re really glad to have you on how did you get started in this line of work of productivity? And maybe tell us a little bit about what led you to be here with us today?

Mridu Parikh
Yeah, well, many years ago, a lifetime ago, it seems like I had left the corporate world and my husband, I made a big move from New York City to Nashville, back when it was not the it city was not cool. And I had an opportunity to basically stay home for the first couple of years with my kids, which was great. But it wasn’t too long when I realized I’m losing my mind. And I just needed to do something else. So I went down this entrepreneurial path, and tried a few things and landed on Home Organizing at the time professional home organizing. So like a lot of business owners, I was working my tail off was spread too thin, just ended up feeling very scattered, exhausted, feeling like a failure a lot of times even resentful, because I was working really hard, but not getting the results that I was hoping that this great this business was going to bring me. And I would regularly think how is it possible that I am working this hard, putting in this many hours and still not getting what I want. So I just went down a personal like development path and started just learning all things productivity and time management. And after a lot of hits and misses, I discovered what worked for me, especially when I was really overloaded was like with the kids and building this business. And I pretty much just thought to myself, I can either go back to constantly being reactive and feeling behind or I could embrace these like new shifts and these structures that I started doing. And that’s what I did, but I really just went from feeling really defeated to completely on top of all my demands and distractions. And that’s when I also transitioned my business. So now I teach those skills to other time strapped top producers, business owners who want to take back control of their day to so they feel really good about what they get done and have the self worth that they deserve.

Tyson Mutrux
I love it. I’m gonna hit you with a hypothetical right off the bat. Yeah, let’s say it’s Monday morning, you had a wonderful weekend, you are pumped for the week, you are ready to go. You have all your goals set out for the week, you are ready to go and hit it and the first thing you walk into the office and you are hit with clients such and such as on the phone, she’s really really mad because of XY and Z and it derails your entire day. How do you deal with that? How do you get out of that rut?

Mridu Parikh
Alright, great question. And I so first of all I’d say before you even get to that office and deal with that client thing, what have you done to set up your morning, because if you have a good foundation, if you’re just like in a good mindset, and you’re feeling more calm and more relaxed, and on top of things, nothing’s going to change, like the client, right? They’re gonna be pissed off and things are gonna happen. But your reaction and the way you respond is really what’s going to change the entire situation. So prior to a video, when it’s it’s 8am, or 9am, looking at that email, what have you done that morning? Did you wake up? Was it was the first thing you do? Did you turn over and press snooze on the alarm clock? And just get on your phone and get on social media and start looking at the news and getting depressed and comparing yourself to everyone? Or did you maybe get up? Give yourself 20 minutes to go through your goals? Think about your calendar, have your coffee in peace? Maybe stretch, you know, like what is that look like? And that is 100% going to change the way that you react. So, you know, we can only change what’s in our control. And that’s what’s in our control. So I hope that answered that. But I would say first start with before that, because that’s what’s going to help you more than anything else.

Jim Hacking
So let’s say you’re not one of those people today. And you’d like to be one of those people, how do you move into a more mindful morning routine?

Mridu Parikh
Pick one thing, like one, the worst thing you could do is say, I’m going to change my entire routine was start waking up at 5am. And I’m going to get to the gym and I’m going to meditate and I’m going to journal them and my green juice like never gonna happen. In fact, I would say, pick a habit versus a routine, there’s a really big difference between a habit routine, I think a lot of a lot of us think oh, if I could just get into, you know, the morning, like I said, the exercise and the meditation all would be great. Well, that’s like six different habits you’re trying to put together, like, oh, I have to get into the habit of waking up earlier, to get in the habit of getting on my workout clothes, get into the habit of getting to the gym getting to you know, it’s all these habits to just pick one. So maybe the first one is, I’m gonna try to get into the habit of waking up 30 minutes earlier than I do today. And that’s the only thing when no matter I don’t even have to worry about what I do at that time. Just get into that, kind of feel good about it, master it, then add on another habit like okay, now I’m going to stretch in the morning and work it up that way. So that would be it, pick one, have your have your grand vision of what it wants to be. But don’t go for that right off the back. So I

Tyson Mutrux
love that answer. And I’ll tell you what. So I see all these Instagram posts and all these Tech Tech posts about how this is how you got to have this perfect morning and you’ve got to do this, you’ve got to meditate, and you’ve got to work out and you’ve got to read and you got to do all these different things. And then this morning, I see this post from Alex for Mozi. And he’s kind of this guy like, he’s pretty extreme. But he’s like, all of that is nonsense. Like what you need to do is like, like, who cares if you make your bed right, you start your morning off by focusing on the most important things. And that’s how you’re productive. So I wonder like, how much of this stuff is just nonsense in the mornings? Like what are the things that actually work? And what are the things that don’t work, you can just throw out the window.

Mridu Parikh
One of the biggest myths, I think, when you think of productivity is I think our initial reaction to it is that it’s doing more and doing it more efficiently and doing it faster. And the way that I’ve now that I’ve taught this for so long, I’ve taken so many clients to it and really the way I got myself out of the ruts and I was in was to throw that out the window and focus on productivity from an emotion. So to me productivity is an emotion you feel when you get the results you want. And if you get to do it in a way that’s more time efficient and more energy efficient. Fantastic. That’s like icing on the cake. But let’s just first start with how you feel. So you’re right if your morning if it feels completely stressful for you to have your green juice and meditate and journal you’re like that’s just not even making me feel great. Like I’m just all it’s doing is stressing me out. Don’t do it. Right feel what makes you feel really good is yeah, what I would if I had what would give me some control over my day today you mentioned Yeah, maybe I just pick up my top priority. Maybe I just plan out my morning the bed get the kids out the door without yelling at them. Like what is the emotion you want to feel and then start creating your day from there? Because I think that ultimately, we all everybody’s goal is to feel good. When it feels successful. You want to feel inspired, you want to wake up motivated, right? Instead of defeated, I failed again I have then you start going down all these self sabotaging thoughts about you’re not good enough. I’ll never catch up does she or he always does it better. So what are those feelings that want to feel and then how do you take one step that makes you that gets you towards that? And I can tell you usually 99% of the time it’s the thing you don’t do it is a thing you procrastinating it’s not jumping on social media. It’s not jumping into your email or your text. You’re doing that anyway. It’s not making you feel great, right? It’s usually that thing. So for me it is literally days just sitting by myself and having coffee in the morning and thinking through my day is like the number one gift that I can give myself. And the number one productivity tool for me because it’s gonna make me feel really good.

Jim Hacking
I’m holding my hand a supercomputer, also known as an iPhone, right? And I’m wondering, how would your message or tips be different if we were having this conversation 30 years ago?

Mridu Parikh
Oh, well, I think the strategy is exactly the same, right? I think that same kind of focusing on on your what’s going to make me feel really good, what can make me feel really accomplish using that as your guide post on your roadmap for the day, the difference is just the level of distractions we have right now. So it’s more than the tactical approach versus the strategy, right. So the tactically, turn those notifications off, just damn, just put your phone in another room. Like, it’s just, you know, we can’t focus, we can’t rely on willpower all the time. So that’s more tactical, but strategically, it’s, you know, maintaining focus, feeling really accomplished prioritizing your day that honestly doesn’t change. It’s more of the tactical things.

Tyson Mutrux
So that’s great. I want to ask you, and I don’t know how to ask this question, but hopefully, I can struggle through it. And you can give me an answer. But yeah, like, if there’s like one thing that you could tell people like, hey, you need to do this one thing like what would like it? It would like give you superpowers, almost like literally like, like, if you were to do this when because like I see these people pitching this crap all the time, right? But I’m talking about like, something that’s actually effective. That works like what would it be, that can change someone from like being like a super procrastinator, or someone who is not very efficient to like something like that? turns them into a rockstar?

Mridu Parikh
Yeah. Okay. So it’s essentially sort of what I was saying, but let’s just take it a step further. So go back to that. So here’s the question. I tell all my clients, I tell everyone, ask yourself, what action what one thing right will make me feel most successful when my head hits the pillow tonight? If you use that quest, if you ask yourself that question, put on a sticky note, answer that every day. And I would say the double whammy is one thing personally. And one thing professionally. Alright, so here’s the trick. It’s not what makes me feel really good, right? This minutes, because what might make you feel really good, right? This minute is getting on tick tock or getting on Instagram or something, right? What makes you feel really good when your head hits the pillow means at the end of the day today? What is that thing? And again, it’s typically something you procrastinate. So for me personally, when I had this goal was the thing I’m procrastinating I want to write a book for like, literally three years want to write a book, when I finally dedicated and said, I’ll do 30 minutes every day, no matter what. And for me first thing in the morning, who works best, whether I get five words down to 500 words down, that’s what’s going to make me feel best at the end of the day for me personally. So that’s what I committed to, right. So what happens nine months later, you have a book in your hand. And then professionally, for me, it will always I think will be like sales, networking, those kinds of things to build my business. And that always takes a backseat. It’s like the last thing that ever frickin happens. But now if it’s like, okay, 30 minutes a day. Can I do that first? Just that what does that mean? Turn? Not my phone, not my email and do that. What does that look like? Over a month? Right? That’s 25 days a week, 20 hours? Let’s say if you do put an hour to it a day, 20 hours a month? What can you what can anybody accomplish with a goal when you put in 20 deliberate, focused hours? It’s incredible. So if I do can live by that, if you can answer that question every day, and say, Can I just put an EP in our total maybe it’s 30 minutes personal, 30 minutes professional, you will honestly your life will change, you will skyrocket that gave

Tyson Mutrux
me goosebumps because I have my one thing for the day. But I don’t ask it that way. And it just like, I’m gonna change that. Because that’s fantastic. It just makes me feel good.

Mridu Parikh
Right? Right. And it taps into that emotional thing. So then when you go to bed, because what typically happens is we have whatever 2040 things on our to do list and you look at it and you’re like, Oh, I got easily I can get I can get these 10 or 20 done today, no problem, even though your schedule is packed, and you have appointments, and it’s you know, you have to run around and get your kids all the things are happening. But still, in your mind. There’s this gap and you believe I can get this all done. This is belief bias. So let’s say you have your 10 things on your list, you only get six done over the day, which is still pretty good because you have a million other things going on. What do you focus on when you’re in bed at night? Before you didn’t? That’s like all you can think about right? You just beat yourself up over it. So instead I’m saying just just forget that forget the 10 focus on the one yeah, you’re still gonna get to a whole bunch. Obviously, we’re all high achievers, you’re gonna get to some things. But if you have that one and you achieve that one, now you go to bed feeling like I’m a winner. I do what I say I’m gonna do right now. It’s like a confidence level and now you wake up in the morning, feeling much more inspired for that next day.

Jim Hacking
One of the topics that you write about and talk about often is people being control freaks. And with our audience being law firm owners, you know, lawyers like to try to control outcomes. Absolutely. Can you talk about any tips for letting go because we think it’s one of the things that holds our members back the most of wanting to micromanage and control every aspect of the firm’s operations.

Mridu Parikh
Absolutely work with a lot of lawyers, I got it, I feel like I should have been one sometimes in my life, because I am also a complete control freak, I would say, start with the lowest hanging fruit, there’s always low hanging fruit, there’s always simple ways to let go of things. Don’t start with the big, I’m going to let go of this, you know, this big process or this big system or handover all my billing or just whatever it is that’s holding you back to something as simple as possible. So it might be, you know, filing some of your paperwork. I know I’ve had I work with lawyers who that even that is like, I just nobody else can file the way I do, really, because probably, there’s a good chance they can or they’ll think of a better way, right? I also think we get so caught up in the way that we do it. Not only is it a democratic control, but it’s perfect. It’s the only way. And it’s amazing when somebody else brings their skills to the table, how much more ingenuity or creativity they can bring, or just a different perspective, and you’re like, oh, yeah, I’d never thought of doing it that way, that’s so much easier, it’s so much simpler, you know, and so start with that, and it’s like a muscle, right, you just got to do it over and over and over and over, until you get to something a little bit harder and a little bit harder and a little bit more. And there will be bumps in the way of course, people everything’s not gonna go exactly to how you want it. But you’ll also realize that even when things don’t go exactly how you want it, the whole world isn’t going to fall apart, your entire firm isn’t gonna, like you know, fall to pieces, you’re not all your clients aren’t going to leave, like, we tend to catastrophize a lot as control freaks, we can catastrophize to the enth degree because we’re like, always be our mind goes to worst case scenario. And that worst case, almost never happens. So, you know, slowly start giving up that control with the lowest hanging fruit, and then work your way up.

Tyson Mutrux
Are there any productivity tools that you might recommend? That might help people? I mean, maybe it’s I don’t know, an app or a website, whatever it may be. I mean, maybe a maybe a non technology tool, but something you might recommend to help boost productivity.

Mridu Parikh
Yeah. So when I think of productivity, again, time management, to me, it’s really less about managing all your time. But in this day and age, you mentioned, Jim, how is it different from 30 years ago, at this point, it’s distraction management. So it’s attention management. So if you can manage your attention better, you’re going to be more productive, like, it’s just going to be the simple byproduct without you having to worry about anything else. Don’t worry about all the apps don’t worry about all your project management tools, let’s just focus on our attention. So Oh, I’m so bummed I don’t have this here. I just left it downstairs. But I have this little cube. So talk about something non technology, it’s this cube. And obviously, it’s a cube is six sides. And you can just get them off Amazon, it literally is called I think it’s called a timer cube. And one side is 510 15 3060. And so for however long, you want to stay in focus, you just hit you just put down that side, you’re like, I just need to focus for 15 minutes, okay, that means I’m going to turn off my phone or just put it in my desk, I’m going to like, tell my assistant or you know, I’m not taking any calls, I’m gonna put a sign on the door, like, do those things be like, my thoughts cannot get in the way for 15 minutes, I was gonna do that. And you put the 15 minute thing and you work on that or you were like, I wanna do 20 Min. Or like, I just want to do five minutes, right? Again, you’re building it up, you’re building that muscle. I use this with my teenagers, I use it for me, I have, like I said, I always have one of my office. I was working downstairs today. I use it all the time. So don’t worry about all the apps and all those things. Start with the basics. We’re speaking

Jim Hacking
with Mary Sue Parakh today, and we’re really glad to have her, you know, I’m a morning person. I was texting Tyson at 430 this morning on my way to the gym. And I have a ton of energy in the morning. Any tips for the end of the day now, before I got on 75 hard and do my exercise and stuff that was when I would eat and sort of relax or reward myself. Any good tips for end of the day routines, like maybe before you go home from work

Mridu Parikh
before you go home from work. Okay, so yeah, well, it sounds like first of all, I want to commend you on your mornings, I don’t get up and I always like to say this because I am a productivity person, right, a pro whatever. And I do not get up at four or five in the morning. But I can tell we’ll still have a really productive day. So just want to let everyone know that for who doesn’t do that. You can set a really productive day not getting up super early, but I’m so glad that you do and that you make your morning so valuable and it sounds like you’re doing some of those really hard things in the morning. I know for me exercise would be the hardest thing. So one, just start there, like don’t leave those really, really, really hard things for you the things you always procrastinate the things that ever happened to the end of the day. So that’s the number one thing, just don’t. So if that’s what you’re doing right now figure out how can I switch that and work with my energy instead of against it? Like we’re fighting our energy and our willpower all day, right? Whether it’s like not picking up our phones, or dealing with our clients, like you don’t need to add another level of fighting that so first of all work with your energy and say, like, what do I need to get done in the morning. And then as far as the end of the day, I believe the best days, the most productive mornings, and most productive days, start the night before. So it’s the thinking that goes into the evening before. So let’s say you’re you’re about to leave work, I would just close up some loose ends in terms of, I mean, physically, maybe just clear off the papers on your desk. Some of the things you know, maybe it’s like, just plan your day. What is my top goal for tomorrow? What are my top three things I’ve got to get done? Jot it down on a on a sticky, don’t overcomplicate this, just think it through, right, when you’re at home at night, where if I have a meeting in the morning, what are the directions? Can I get it on ways? Do you know what am I going to wear? Do I need to pack up stuff for lunch? Like what is it that will help those few things that will make you successful for the next day is how I would think about the night. So when I think about my day, I have different kind of, I think of it in quarters almost or thirds at least. So maybe the morning is like like we were saying maybe for those activities that I don’t get to that I really need the energy and brain work for midday is generally for some more kind of creative work. For me, that’s just how my energy level works later in the afternoon is more mundane things, and in the evening is for prep and planning. So when I start thinking about my days and like a little bit more organized like this, it again kind of just gives me like a guidepost at night, like what are those things I can do to prep and plan for tomorrow? And by the way, put a little checklist of five things, just having a little checklist put on your phone, or put on your fridge? Or put your bedside table? You’re like, oh, wait, did I pick out my clothes? Did I do I know where I’m going in the morning? Did I check my calendar to see, do I have a meeting at 7am? Or drive at 9am? Like when’s my first you know, my first responsibility in the morning, did I pick you know, and it just like look at my calendar for the day. So I have this little checklist. And a really easy way that I do it is I put it on my phone, and it like pops up at 1030. And it’s so it’s a reminder, it’s like an event on my phone and in that in the description are my five things for my checklist. And so it’s just a little reminder to me before I go to bed Wait, did I just look at all these things because even though I’ve been doing this for a dozen years, I forget to do these basic things I forget to do them, I just another one I have is I like to put my skin a little bit personal here. But I like to put my workout clothes, like my yoga pants at the foot of my bed. So when I wake up, I put them on. And that just kind of gets me even if I don’t work out, it gets me in a more active kind of mindset in the morning. So but I forget there are so many nights, I forgot to go get them from my closet and put them there. But then I see it on my checklist and events there. So it just doesn’t matter how often you’re doing these things you could always use I think everyone can use that reinforcement.

Tyson Mutrux
That’s that’s really good. I have a must steal the one about work putting in my workout clothes. I’m not gonna put them on the on the end of my bed because I got OCD, but I’ll put them like on my dresser or something. So I can see. Here’s a question I have for you where, like I have a very structured week, like Jim can tell you like my week is extremely structured. But what happens especially with federal cases, because judges, federal judges like to just like, you know, say we’re having court on this day and not really ask you about it. Yeah. And so there’s some times where I don’t have an option as to when I can have court, we’re told when we kind of coordinate, it’s really frustrating to me. So do you have any tips on managing things like that? Because it’s it’s an annoying part of my week to be completely honest with you know, it doesn’t happen as often settle handles many cases. But it does happen. It’s frustrating. So getting tip sores.

Mridu Parikh
Yeah, no, it’s totally frustrated. Yeah, things pop up in the calendar, right, you’re like my caseload is it’s some it is just out of your control many times, right? Or even something personally, someone’s sick in the house or something happened, and you know, and that and that throws everything off. So I think the way to manage it, is to actually manage it and not deflect it and not pretend it’s not happening. I think that there’s a lot of us who be like, this thing popped up. So now it’s out of my control. So now my whole week has gone awry. So now I’ll just like you know, I’ll just be reacting all day and my week has blown up and I’ll just let things I’ll just deal with them as they come. I know for some reason. It’s like, yes, that happens. I got it like that day happens, but it seems to shut a lot of us down completely. Like there’s just a sense of I’ve given up everything’s out of my control. We’re actually yeah, that day came up. It wasn’t on your radar. It wasn’t you know, wasn’t in the plan. But if we get back to managing it and saying Okay, well, now this happened. And I take 10 minutes, five minutes to just just assess to be like, well, how does this impact everything else? Well, then maybe I have to switch everything I was gonna do today to tomorrow. And that has to push back other things. Or maybe I need to put up some different boundaries with my clients, or maybe I need to, you know, let my colleagues know that things are some changes are like, How can I react in a way that’s intentional and more deliberate? Versus this? Like, oh, my gosh, it’s all out of my control. There’s no way I’m all behind. On I understand that, because I’ve done it too. But it’s not helping. So actually does deal with it. And the second one, I don’t mean deal with it. When I say do that mean, look at your calendar, move things take that time, but it’s always going to come down to like, taking a little bit of time to think it through. And I’ll say the biggest thing I know, gosh, I definitely, you know, in any high achieving industry, especially, I mean, for lawyers are, you know, any high achievers, when you’re in the midst of chaos, when you’re in overwhelm, when everything’s being thrown at you, the most counterintuitive thing is to step back and be like, I just really liked to put some time to think about this right now. Like that’s completely opposite of what your brain is telling you what you’re like, and your neurology is telling you, it is telling you to it’s like the fight or flight like just get in there, put your head down, deal with it and do the staff. So where the practice comes in is having that awareness to pull yourself back and replan and reprioritize and rejigger things, because that investment of time will always give you more time. Always, always. But it’s so counterintuitive. So that’s what I will leave you with is like just remind ourselves that this investment of my time, although it seems like the worst plan right now is always going to give me more time and more clarity and more focus back.

Jim Hacking
That’s awesome. Me too. My favorite word that came out of today’s podcast. It’s a word that some people in my office like to do. It’s catastrophize. So I’m really excited about Castro position. And the Castro Pfizer’s in my office. So anyway, for our listeners who want to get a hold of you, what are all the best ways to contact you and your company?

Mridu Parikh
Yeah, well, I’m in all places Life Is Organized. Come on over to my website, I feel like that’s, you’ll get to know me really well. I’m on Instagram and Facebook Life Is Organized. But also it should since you’re listening to this, you’re probably a fan of podcasts. So come on over to the productivity on purpose podcast, it is geared towards women, business owners, but we can all take these tips are all universal. So come join me there. And I also have a book and you can find that over on my website as well.

Tyson Mutrux
Good stuff. All right, we are going to wrap things up before I do want to remind everyone to join us in the big Facebook group, just go to Facebook and search maximum lawyer, you’ll be able to find us. If you want a more high level conversation, go to max law guild.com. We hope you’ll join us there. And while you’re listening to the rest of this episode, if you don’t mind giving us a five star review. Wherever you get your podcasts, we will greatly appreciate it. It really does help spread the love. And he gives this information to lawyers that really need it. So we hope you’ll help share that and tell a friend about us. Jimmy, what’s your hack of the week?

Jim Hacking
Well, you know, we spent a lot of time on here talking about loom and the value of asynchronous communication. I have a couple service providers who don’t really do phone calls, they just communicate to us with loom recordings, which I appreciate. And I came upon a little hack that helps with those. And that is loom allows you to set the speed that you’re listening to the Luma on. And if you set it at like 1.7 or 2.0, you can also turn on the transcript and you can read it while they’re talking. And you can get through it twice as fast.

Tyson Mutrux
I liked it a lot. I liked that whenever it comes out of your books too. Because you can just you can get a book that’s like 12 hours you can read it like six or seven or listen to in six or seven. So it’s good stuff. All right, Maria, I think I might have I feel like I’ve gotten your name right the entire time. Except for I tend to one time I got to run but and redo. We always ask our guests to give a tip or a hack of the week, do you and it could be a podcast, it could be a book, it could be a quote could be whatever. So do you have a tip or a heck for our listeners?

Mridu Parikh
Wow. Okay, so I’m actually going to I thought about this, I’m going to just reinforce what I said primarily because I think the things we need to hear need to be reinforced over and over and over again. And that’s how they they finally stick. So I’m gonna leave you with the question that question that you said, Tyson you’re gonna start using you know what will make me feel most successful when my head hits the pillow tonight. If you if you ask yourself that question every day, if you lead your day with that, if you commit to that, there’s no doubt in my mind, you will be more successful. You’ll get your results quicker sooner, and you will feel more productive.

Tyson Mutrux
I wrote it down twice because I didn’t get 100% right the first time so I’m glad you said it again. because it’s I was gonna ask you about it. So I’m glad you did. Because that’s, that’s great. It’s I’m changing what the question I asked myself. So that’s, that’s really, really good. I love it. That’s great. And this is in addition to the tip you gave about the timer, because I already have pulled up on Amazon over here. So I’m gonna get that as soon as we’re done. There’s some really cool ones on here too. And just people No, so really cool. I’m gonna spend like the next 30 minutes, like binging about timers, until I find the perfect one. But my tip of the week, it’s pretty simple. It’s good. It kind of goes with our episode when it comes to time management is have an agenda for your meetings, we have all of our meetings have agendas, like in the calendar invite. So when it comes to our our pod review meetings, when it comes to our leadership meetings, when it comes to our we have what we call it an administrative review meeting, we have agendas for all of them. And it really helps streamline things. So you don’t just show up, oh, what are we talking about today? It’s very, very structured. And it saves us a ton of time. So I really, really recommend agendas for your meetings, because especially for meetings, you’re not there. Because if you have these meetings and you don’t have an agenda, people are just going to waste time. They’re not because they’re meeting to waste time just because they don’t know what to do. So give them an agenda, have them follow it and it’ll help streamline things. But redo. Thank you so much for joining us. I really enjoyed this podcast as someone that likes to have a structured week and organize things. I really, really appreciate it. So thank you so much.

Mridu Parikh
Thanks for having this. This was a great questions. And I really, really appreciate you sharing me with your audience. I hope everyone walks away with some value.

Jim Hacking
I think they will. Thanks so much. I

Tyson Mutrux
had no doubt in my mind. Thank you, Marie. They’ll appreciate it.

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