The Intentional Advantage
486 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 508 ratingsThe Intentional Advantage is the podcast for high-achieving women who are ready to step into intentional leadership at work and in their personal life. If you are a woman who has spent your life chasing busy, overwhelmed by everything you need to do.… if you know you’ve accomplished a lot but still secretly feel unqualified…if you have felt defined by overachieving, over perfecting and are just plain over it, this is the podcast for you.
In each episode, Purposeful Productivity expert Tanya Dalton shares actionable strategies and tactics to help you reclaim your time, reignite your purpose, and restore harmony in your life. Tanya is an international best-selling author, speaker and 7-figure entrepreneur who can help you overcome your limiting beliefs, reduce your anxiety and boost your self-confidence. After all, you were made for an extraordinary life.
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035: Automations: A System that Works FOR You
September 12, 2017 05:00 - 22 minutes - 10.7 MBLearn how to use automations as a system that will help you with tasks that need to be done very week or every month. We’re continuing our topic for this season all about personalized systems by discussing how automations can help you take the thinking out of it, as you break down and easily manage tasks, allowing you to complete any goal and project on time and without stress. What’s In This Episode: • Eliminate decision fatigue by implementing automations into your lifestyle. • How to...
034: Ask Tonya: Customizing Systems to Your Lifestyle
September 05, 2017 05:00 - 24 minutes - 11.6 MBHow do we create and implement systems so that they are personalized and actually work for our environment? I’m answering listener questions about keeping up with systems when life happens or urgent items get in the way. In today’s episode, you’ll be able to relate to these real-life questions and examples of how you can maintain your customized systems with good habits through using actionable strategies. What’s In This Episode: • How to maintain customized systems when your schedule is...
033: Why To Do Lists Don't Work: The Priority List
August 29, 2017 05:00 - 20 minutes - 10 MBLearn why the traditional to-do list is working against you. I’m showing you how to use a new system - the Priority List. This will allow to actually work toward the important items on your list, like your personal goals, instead of getting bogged down by Insignificant tasks. After this episode, you’ll be inspired and ready to start tomorrow morning off with your new and personalized list that propels you forward toward goals and big projects. What’s In This Episode: • Why to-do lists don...
032: Habits: The Four Tendencies with Gretchen Rubin
August 22, 2017 05:00 - 34 minutes - 16.4 MBAuthor and speaker, Gretchen Rubin discusses how we can live happier lives by creating good habits through knowing ourselves. We often think it’s too difficult not only to create good habits, but to keep up with them as well. By using Gretchen’s quiz on The Four Tendencies and being aware of loopholes you may use, you’ll be able to cultivate systems and habits that work for you and your lifestyle. What’s In This Episode: • Learn the Four Tendencies Framework: Figure out if you’re an Up...
031: Creating Habits: The Formula for Success
August 15, 2017 05:00 - 21 minutes - 10.7 MBCultivating good habits doesn’t happen magically or right away. It’s not about disciplining yourself so that you’re forcing routines into your life, and that’s what so many of us try to do. Today, you’ll learn the easy but effective formula for creating habits AND sticking to them. I’m also giving you steps to changing those bad habits you’ve been wanting to break for so long so that you have more room to focus on your personalized systems and good habits. What’s In This Episode: • How...
030: Why Eating the Frog Doesn't Work
August 08, 2017 05:00 - 22 minutes - 10.9 MBDiscover why “eating the frog,” or getting your most dreaded or biggest task done first thing in the morning, is actually a bad idea and a device for procrastination. Instead, I’m sharing ways you can keep moving forward on goals you set, no matter how big. After listening to today’s episode, you’ll feel empowered to create a plan for yourself, instead of mindlessly completing insignificant tasks or procrastinating your progress to the finish line. What’s In This Episode: • Why the sys...
029: Batching Tasks: Your Best Work in Less Time
August 01, 2017 05:00 - 23 minutes - 11.4 MBStart saving yourself time and work smarter through batching your tasks. Today, I’m discussing how you can categorize tasks so you can implement a simple strategy to help you stay focused and work with intention. After today’s episode, you’ll be ready to begin producing higher quality work in less time. What’s In This Episode: • Why you need to work with intention - the natural way your brain WANTS to work. • The two categories you can use to easily batch tasks. • Actionable steps...
028: Walking Away from Perfection
July 25, 2017 05:00 - 23 minutes - 11.1 MBPerfectionism can take over when we’re trying complete tasks - from small projects to our biggest goals. Today I’m discussing the signs we should look out for to know whether or not we really may be perfectionists and how that cycle can be broken. With these 5 actionable strategies, you’ll be able to let go and walk away from your perfectionist mindset once and for all. What’s In This Episode: • Why we go after perfectionism in the different areas of our lives and the cycle of it. • How...
027: Eating the Elephant: Creating Personalized Systems
July 18, 2017 05:00 - 21 minutes - 10.2 MBHow do you accomplish your big goals and tasks? Start by eating the elephant! Using systems, like this and others will positively affect productivity, relationships and overall goals. In today’s episode, learn exactly what systems are and how to personalize them for you and your environment. What’s In This Episode: • Discover how to be more proactive instead of reactive with your systems. • How to customize your system to work for you and your environment. • Why you should Eat the Elep...
026: Making the Most of Your Weekend
July 11, 2017 05:00 - 22 minutes - 10.9 MBDo you get to Sunday night and wonder where the weekend went? We just need to streamline your Saturdays and Sundays for success so you can actually enjoy your time. We often feel the need to work throughout our weekend, but in today’s episode I’m giving 5 tips on how to combat working on the weekend. I’ll also share research on why it’s important to take this time off so you can maximize your productivity for the week ahead. What’s In This Episode: • How to cut back on weekend work, ema...
025: Taking Back Your Fridays
July 04, 2017 05:00 - 21 minutes - 10.6 MBEliminate end-of-the-week burnout and make every Friday your most successful and rewarding day of the week. Using streamlining strategies for planning your tasks, obligations and projects will allow you to ease into the weekend. Friday no longer has to be the most unproductive day of the week - let’s make it successful, productive AND relaxing! What’s In This Episode: Learn how to set up Friday for the ultimate day of success. How to streamline tasks, projects and more to avoid the Frid...
024: Schedule the Things That Matter: The New Priority System
June 27, 2017 05:00 - 21 minutes - 10.6 MBMany times our priorities and the tasks that are truly important to us get pushed aside. The urgent tasks call out to us and we end up prioritizing those instead of our goals. By using my priority levels system, you will achieve more because you’ll schedule in those personal priorities - both big and small. What’s In This Episode: • Learn how Calee Lee used two unplanned hours in her day to create a 7 figure business. • How to attain the mindset that will move you towards real suc...
023: Use Time Tracking to Live Your Best Life with Laura Vanderkam
June 20, 2017 05:00 - 26 minutes - 12.8 MBLaura Vanderkam, author of I Know How She Does It, shares her strategies from her research on how women who have a career and family make time for both. We’re discussing how tracking your time and managing it is key to living the best, healthiest and most fulfilling life possible. Learn about the "scripts" we tell ourselves when it comes to how we manage time. What’s In This Episode: Laura discusses the idea behind her book “I Know How She Does it.” Take a look inside how women allo...
022: Banking Time: 5 Tactics for Focusing on Your Priorities
June 13, 2017 05:00 - 21 minutes - 10.2 MBWe spend time like it's endless, when really it's a finite commodity. If you start treating your time, like you do your bank account, you'll find that there are ways we can find pockets of time in our daily schedules. Use these 5 actionable tactics to banking up your time and start getting more time for yourself and your priorities. What’s In This Episode: Understand banking your time is just as important as saving money. Learn the negative effects of always thinking you’re too bus...
021: Keys to Getting Your Best Sleep Ever
June 06, 2017 05:00 - 20 minutes - 10 MBShould you streamline the amount of sleep you get each night. How much sleep do you really require? There are a few factors that go into answering this question and today’s episode is all about sleep and how it will help you to reach peak productivity. Through researching the brain and sleep myths & facts, I’ll give you the best strategies to help you understand and create good sleep habits. What's In this Episode: • Understand why sleep is so important to repair & restore our bodi...
020: Is the Four Hour Work Week Real?
May 30, 2017 05:00 - 21 minutes - 10.2 MBWhat’s the ideal amount of time to work each week? Is Elon Musk right that we should be working 80+ hour weeks or is Tim Ferriss correct in thinking you only should work four? I’m discussing these questions along with some streamlining and time management tips so you can figure out the amount of hours that work for you. Learn how people see their work differently and how that will affect the way you work. What’s In This Episode: • Learn the health costs of being overworked. • U...
019: Ask Tonya
May 23, 2017 05:00 - 26 minutes - 12.7 MBThe first Productivity Paradox listener Q&A is here! I'm answering your questions on finding your peak productivity through time management, beating the feeling of overwhelm and more. Sometimes your career responsibilities, home life and personal needs can be a lot to handle, and I want to help you find harmony with every compartment of your life by answering these real-life questions. What’s In This Episode: • The best listener questions and my answers on being more productive, managing ...
018: Cushioning Your Time: Build Buffers Into Your Life
May 16, 2017 05:00 - 22 minutes - 10.2 MBSometimes life can be unexpected, and the only way we can prepare for that is by creating and building in cushions to our time so that we can slow down and do our best. In today’s episode, I’ll go over how and why we need to stop underestimating our time and instead adjust to it. Once we have these cushions, or buffers, in place we will stop wasting time and money and start giving ourselves the space to plan. What’s In This Episode: • How to build in buffers to your life. • Real-lif...
017: Removing Obstacles: The Lost Art of Quitting
May 09, 2017 05:00 - 21 minutes - 10.1 MBThere’s a lot of guilt that comes with the idea of quitting something. But in today’s modern world, it’s actually imperative that we quit certain things that don’t align with our goals and priorities. I’m giving an overview of why quitting something huge in my life was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made and how you can apply those lessons learned in your own life. You’ll also get a free download in helping you decide if you need to quit something and how to plan and cope in that proces...
016: How to Make Better Decisions: Sunk Cost Bias
May 02, 2017 05:00 - 20 minutes - 9.63 MBWe sometimes invest so much time, money, energy and more into something. Whether it be a project, a person or a simple task, it can be hard to admit that it’s just not working out and producing the results you want and need. This is called sunk cost bias, and in this episode I’ll be explaining how it creates a vicious cycle and what questions you need to ask yourself to know whether to keep going in your investments or to start over. What’s In This Episode: How sunk cost bias influences...
015: Compartmentalize Your Life
April 25, 2017 05:00 - 22 minutes - 10.2 MBToday I’m sharing my personal favorite strategies to compartmentalize your life for work, home and personal. Learn about these three main categories and how compartmentalizing can help us gage the importance and urgency of various tasks. By the end, you’ll be able to implement these strategies so that you feel less stressed and more focused on one category at a time. What’s In This Episode: How one compartment of your life affects the rest. The mistakes you might be making when compartme...
014: Get Over FOMO: Focus on What’s Important
April 18, 2017 05:00 - 22 minutes - 10.2 MBDiscover how you can hone in and focus on your priorities without getting FOMO about missing other opportunities. For today’s episode, I’m talking about how FOMO is a major factor to developing trends and to how we perceive the many situations around us. I’ll discuss a few of my favorite tips to start breaking that feeling many of us get when we have to choose between what to do. What’s In This Episode: Learn what the focus is for season 2 and why. How Steve Jobs got over the Fear o...
013: Gain the Life You Love: Interview with Alex Mandossian
April 11, 2017 05:00 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBWhile Alex Mandossian is a man known by many titles - productivity expert, entrepreneur, business coach and, in his opinion, his most important role of being a dad. In today's show, we're talking about why you need to focus on your priorities over your productivity. Alex gives some of his best productivity secrets including a rundown of his daily ritual, tips for controlling your inbox and more. What’s In This Episode: Learn how productivity has helped Alex build a multimillion dollar emp...
012: Creating Your Ideal Planning System
April 04, 2017 05:00 - 22 minutes - 40.9 MBMy most frequently asked question is what system of planning I use, so today I’m talking about everything I do to plan my days and week both at work and at home with my family. You’ll learn why the system I use works for me and gain some ideas as to how you might be able to use some of the same systems to incorporate both paper planning and technology. What’s In This Episode: Why I advocate for using both technology and paper planning. The most important pieces of making your own planni...
011: The Paperless Myth
March 28, 2017 05:00 - 21 minutes - 39.6 MBLet’s talk about technology and planning. Is it helping or hindering you? We’ll take a look at how our brains work, what type of learner you are, and how that changes the effectiveness of technology. We’ll also talk about the choices we need to make when incorporating technology into our personal planning systems. Show Notes: What’s In This Episode: Why technology might be failing you as a productivity tool. Find out what kind of learner you are and how that impacts your planning. Th...
010: The Magic of Monotasking
March 21, 2017 05:00 - 21 minutes - 40.2 MBToday we’re talking all about monotasking. Practicing monotasking puts the focus on one task at a time. When you shift your mindset from being efficient to being effective, you will truly begin to feel more productive. You’ll learn some real ways you can implement monotasking in your daily life and start being more productive with your time. What’s In This Episode: Why we should focus on being effective, not efficient. How working on one task at a time is actually faster than multitaski...
009: Why Multitasking is Killing Your Productivity
March 14, 2017 05:00 - 20 minutes - 38.8 MBAs a recovered multitasker myself, I understand the pride many people feel about their multitasking abilities, but you might be surprised to learn that multitasking is the ONE biggest mistake you can make with productivity. Today we’re learn how the brain handles multitasking, or rather, how it really can’t handle multitasking. The true cost of multitasking might scare you a little but it’s something we need to talk about to get past it and start being truly productive. What’s In This Epis...
008: Finding YOUR Yes
March 07, 2017 06:00 - 21 minutes - 40.3 MBWhen opportunities pop up, it’s sometimes hard to know when to say ‘no’ and when to say ‘yes.’ Since everyone’s priorities are different, everyone’s ‘yes’ is different too. In this episode we will go in-depth, walking through an easy strategy that will help you find your own ‘yes.’ It’s not always about saying no - sometimes yes can be the best answer. What’s In This Episode: Learn why you’re not a yes person or a no person. Why balance is bogus and it’s really about harmony. Why ...
007: The Surprising Way ‘No’ Can Really Mean Yes
February 28, 2017 06:00 - 21 minutes - 40.3 MBToday’s episode is all about the power of the word “no” and how to cut through the clutter in our daily to-do list. There’s a lot of guilt associated with saying no to tasks so I’m going to be walking you through how to filter out the lowest priority tasks, what saying no really means for your happiness and easy ways can say no guilt-free. What’s In This Episode: How to filter out most of your lowest priority tasks. Why delegating will help you focus on your priorities. Why we have gu...
006: The Power of Priorities
February 21, 2017 06:00 - 19 minutes - 35.8 MBLet’s rethink the to-do list. Today’s episode is about finding a method to prioritize your daily tasks to help you focus on the tasks that are truly important to you and your goals. I’ll be sharing my method to help sort your daily tasks and helping you take real steps toward achieving your goals by working on your priorities. What’s In This Episode: Learn the definition of overwhelm and how to tackle it. Understand the two questions you can ask to help you focus on priorities. H...
005: How a Mission Statement Can Create Household Harmony
February 14, 2017 08:00 - 21 minutes - 40.5 MBIn this episode we will be talking about shared mission statements. Mission statements aren’t just for individuals or companies, they can also help add clarity to families. And, just to be clear, families look many different ways - not just people with children - it includes people in committed relationships, single people who live or work closely with others - even our teams at work. The strategies we are covering will help any group of people to work stronger together. Listen now and...
004: Find Your North Star: How To Create A Personal Mission Statement
February 07, 2017 08:00 - 21 minutes - 40.8 MBIn this episode we will be talking about the importance of mission statements. Having a mission statement is the key element in focusing on your priorities and will help you find your purpose. Having a personal mission statement gives you permission to get rid of the distractions and go for the goals that are important to you Listen now and discover: What is a personal mission statement? How having a mission statement is going to help give you direction, gain insight into your life and...
003: Creating an Action Plan for Goal Success
January 31, 2017 13:00 - 20 minutes - 37.2 MBIn this episode, we will create an action plan for our goal setting. We will be building off the Reflection and Projection exercises we completed as part of episodes 1 and 2 in order to create a road map for reaching those goals. Using the free downloadable Action worksheet, we will work together to break down big goals into easy to manage mini goals. What’s in this episode: The 3-step process in creating a custom goal achievement map. How to bank time to achieve your goals M...
002: Setting Goals You Can Actually Achieve
January 21, 2017 16:00 - 21 minutes - 39.7 MBIn this episode we continue the focus on achievable goal setting with implementing the second step of the goal setting process. Using the reflections as your foundation, I’ll help you get started projecting what you want your goals to be. I will go in-depth and help you customize those goals for yourself. I’ll talk about setting SMART goals and how wording your goals makes a difference. What’s in this episode: • The 3-step process in creating a custom goal achievement map. • How to bank t...
001: Why Resolutions Don’t Work
January 21, 2017 15:57 - 19 minutes - 36.9 MBIn this episode, we focus on goal setting. This is part one of a three-part series where I will break down how to set your goals and make them achievable. We’ll discuss why New Year’s Resolutions tend to fail and how you can change your mindset to create goals that work. I’ll share my three step process that helps insure goal setting success. What's in this episode: • The anatomy of goal setting that results in success. • How to avoid the guilt and shame of January 7th. • How a 90-day ...
000: The Story Behind Productivity Paradox
January 21, 2017 15:54 - 11 minutes - 22 MBProductivity strategist and coach Tonya Dalton welcomes you to “Productivity Paradox,” lets you know what she brings to the podcast, and what you can expect to learn. Tonya’s personal goal is to help you live the best life you can. She believes productivity needs to be customized and personalized to you, your personal goals, and the way you want to live. In this podcast, she’ll help you find and design systems that are customized to you, and she’ll do it in bite-sized episodes that are eas...