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In this episode, Madeleine Dore discusses how we can redefine productivity by embracing the messiness of life. Dore shares her insights on dismantling comparison, aspirational routines, and unrealistic expectations, encouraging listeners to find their own way to navigate the never-ending list of things to do. Tune in to discover a new perspective on what it means to be productive. Subscribe for ad-free interviews and bonus episodes https://plus.acast.com/s/the-unmistakable-creative-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if I told you that being left-handed or right-handed has a powerful influence on decisions you make? Listen as I begin this episode by explaining how this works. http://casasanto.com/papers/Casasanto&Chrysikou_2011.pdf There are colors all around you that you can't see. But birds can see them. Many birds see colors that are unimaginable to you. Dogs smell things everywhere that you can't smell. Other animals have the ability to sense the magnetic fields of the earth – but you cannot. These are just a few of the interesting ways that other creatures perceive the world differently than humans. And it gets even more interesting than that. If you would like to hear how, listen to my conversation with Ed Yong, a Pulitzer prize winning science journalist, staff member at The Atlantic and author of the book An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden World Around Us (https://amzn.to/41vZ2Qa). People sure talk about productivity a lot. By all accounts, we all need to get more done in less time – that is the key to efficiency and success. Yet have you noticed that when you don't get everything done you think you should, you feel guilty – which never feels good. Maybe what we need is to stop worrying about being productive and enjoy living life instead. And by doing that, you may be even more productive than ever! Here to explain how is Madeleine Dore, author of the book I Didn't Do That Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt (https://amzn.to/3ILawYE). Food, drinks and candy at a movie theater are usually very expensive. In fact, I bet you have toyed with the idea of bringing your own snacks to save money. But is it right to do that? After all, they ask you not to. Listen as I discuss this interesting dileman. Source: David Callahan author of The Cheating Culture (https://amzn.to/3lYq1Ue) PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! FACTOR: Eat smart with Factor! Get 50% off at https://FactorMeals.com/something50off QUINCE: Indulge in affordable luxury! Go to https://Quince.com/sysk for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. TIMELINE: Get 10% off your order of Mitopure!  Go to https://Timeline.com/SOMETHING SHOPIFY:  Nobody does selling better than Shopify! Sign up for a $1 per-month trial period at https://Shopify.com/sysk and upgrade your selling today! HERS: Hers is changing women's healthcare by providing access to GLP-1 weekly injections with the same active ingredient as Ozempic and Wegovy, as well as oral medication kits. Start your free online visit today at https://forhers.com/sysk INDEED: Get a $75 sponsored job credit to get your jobs more visibility at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING right now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Madeleine Dore went in search of the secret to productivity, only to find that there isn't one. Instead, we're being set up to fail. Today, she's here to encourage us to take productivity off its pedestal.

Madeleine Dore returns with a brand new podcast, A SOCIAL LIFE, WITH FRIENDS. Coming soon, conversations will explore what it's like being a person in the world with other people—all the joys, all the tensions, all the misunderstandings and the miracles. Stay in the loop: Visit asociallifewithfriends.com Sign up to the newsletter Be sure to subscriber to the podcast wherever you like to listen Created, produced and hosted by Madeleine Dore with support from DM PodcastsArtwork by Rachel DerumSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you already have an elegant way of wrapping up with clients? If you work with people one-on-one, it's important to systematize business values that you say are important to you, like surprise and delight, or giving clients a red carpet experience from start to finish. Many of us have thought more about that on the front end than when we're actually closing out with a client—that's why I'm super excited to bring you this listener submission episode from previous guest and BFF, Jacqueline Fisch.

To discuss the how and why of lists, Nuala is joined by Joanna Nolan, author of the book, Listful, and Lucy Ireland Gray, who put together a collection of about 200 shopping lists that she found discarded over the course of nearly 20 years in and around Hertfordshire, where she lives. We consider the psychology of lists - in particular why and whether lists are good or bad for our mental health and creativity. Artist Alice Instone, Joanna Nolan, author of Listful, and Madeleine Dore, the author of, I didn't do the thing today: On letting go of productivity guilt, join Nuala. Lists in the public domain - with Nuala to discuss the good and bad of lists historically and in contemporary times, are journalist and writer Helen Lewis, author of Difficult women: A history of feminism in eleven fights, and writer Anne Sebba, author of 10 non-fiction books. Her most recent book is Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy. The place of lists in music - songs with lists, the charts, playlists and more. Nuala is joined by Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, whose album, Black Rainbows, is out in September, and music journalist Jude Rogers, the author of The sound of being human: How music shapes our lives. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

If you feel like there's always something else to do, you're never doing enough & your time is slipping through your hands no matter how much you try to control it this episode is for you. Madeleine Dore spent 5 years searching for the secret to productivity only to wind up writing a book exposing our obsession with doing more. In this episode she dismantles hustle culture & shares some better ways of working that can help us re-evaluate our relationship with productivity. If you enjoyed this episode, I know you're going to love this one with time management wizard Kate Christie on how to find an extra 30 hours a month! CONNECT WITH USConnect with That's Helpful & Ed Stott on Instagram. Find Madeleine on Instagram & via her website. BOOKSI Didn't Do The Thing Today Got an episode suggestion or feedback for me? Email me - edwina@edstott.com

“You have to live spherically—in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm—and things will come your way.” —Federico Fellini This week's delightful guest, Madeleine Dore, reminded me of this wonderful quote while reading her book, one that I know you will love as much as I did: I Didn't Do The Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt. We talk about widening the measure and meaning of a day beyond our to-do lists, discovering the call of a new topic, shaping a big idea “blob of clay,” how she collects all the great quotes and stories for her book, why she sees herself as more of a guinea pig than an expert (and freelancer valuing independence even more than business owner), and how she decides when to sunset a project, rather than “maintaining something at all costs.” This crossover episode originally aired on the Free Time podcast on April 25, 2023. More About Madeleine: Madeleine Dore is a writer and interviewer exploring how we can broaden the definition of a day well spent. As a labor of love, Madeleine spent over five years asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts. The lessons culminated in her first book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt. Madeleine continues to write, speak and ask questions—but mostly tries to hold things lightly.

Today, we're pulling one of our best episodes from the vaults, featuring the brilliant Madeleine Dore.  Recommend this show by sharing the link: pod.link/2Pages I still remember reading my first Nicholson Baker book, The Mezzanine. This extraordinary book slows down the pace of life to one where all the details are able to be noticed. For someone like me–a little bit in my head and moving too fast–reading the book resembles bullet time from The Matrix movies, only with the detritus of everyday living zipping past, instead.  Madeleine Dore reminds me of myself; both a great author and a great asker of questions, though they differ a bit from mine. She's made a career out of asking obvious questions to important people, with all of the answers she's received ending up in her best-selling book I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt.  Get‌ ‌book‌ ‌links‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌at‌ https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/  Madeleine reads two pages from ‘Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life,' by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. [reading begins at 12:12]  Hear us discuss:  Making more generous assumptions. [16:24] | The relationship between playfulness and routine. [17:15] | Knowing what's essential vs transitory about yourself: “It takes a long time to become who you are.” [20:12] | “Things are just experiments and projects—we're not tied to anything forever.” [25:28] | The complexity of awaiting your next project. [26:35]

Hello and welcome to Ctrl Alt Delete. This is a replay of a conversation with writer and interviewer Madeleine Dore, recorded in April 2022. We discuss her book ‘I Didn't Do The Thing Today'; a gentle, wise, and insightful look at letting go of productivity guilt, and the relationship between our output with inner self worth. Hope you enjoy.My Substack page, come and say hi: https://thehyphen.substack.com/My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannonBooks mentioned on Ctrl Alt Delete podcast: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-mentioned-on-ctrl-alt-delete-podcastTwitter: Twitter.com/emmagannonInstagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Madeleine Dore, author of I Didn't Do The Thing Today, joins Leah Smart to help us broaden our definitions of a day well spent. They dive into ways we can drop our “shoulds” by analyzing, interpreting, and defining borrowed wants and expired wants to reveal our real wants. Follow Leah on LinkedIn Follow Madeline Dore on Instagram

Do you ever feel like you haven't gotten enough accomplished in the day, in the month or even the year? Well, you are not alone in those feelings.

Madeleine Dore, author of ‘I Didn't Do The Thing Today' on rethinking writing routines and ruts, how to rid ourselves of the pressure to do more, embracing imperfection in the creative process, and her unique approach to her Substack newsletter.*ABOUT MADELEINE DORE Madeleine Dore is a writer, interviewer and author of I Didn't Do The Thing Today'. As a labour of love, Madeleine spent over five years exploring how we can broaden the definition of a day well spent in her popular blog Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts. She continues to write, speak and explore themes of creativity and connection—but mostly tries to hold things lightly.*Follow Madeleine:Instagram: @madeleine__dore)Madeleine's Substack: On ThingsMadeleine's blog Extraordinary RoutinesLinks & Resources Discussed:

“You have to live spherically—in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm—and things will come your way.” —Federico Fellini This week's delightful guest, Madeleine Dore, reminded me of this wonderful quote while reading her book, one that I know you will love as much as I did: I Didn't Do The Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt. We talk about widening the measure and meaning of a day beyond our to-do lists, discovering the call of a new topic, shaping a big idea “blob of clay,” how she collects all the great quotes and stories for her book, why she sees herself as more of a guinea pig than an expert (and freelancer valuing independence even more than business owner), and how she decides when to sunset a project, rather than “maintaining something at all costs.” More About Madeleine: Madeleine Dore is a writer and interviewer exploring how we can broaden the definition of a day well spent. As a labor of love, Madeleine spent over five years asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts. The lessons culminated in her first book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt. Madeleine continues to write, speak and ask questions—but mostly tries to hold things lightly.

In this episode, Madeleine Dore discusses how we can redefine productivity by embracing the messiness of life. Dore shares her insights on dismantling comparison, aspirational routines, and unrealistic expectations, encouraging listeners to find their own way to navigate the never-ending list of things to do. Tune in to discover a new perspective on what it means to be productive. Subscribe for ad-free interviews and bonus episodes https://plus.acast.com/s/the-unmistakable-creative-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this conversation Madeleine Dore shares what she learned after spending five years interviewing creative thinkers about their routines and reflections. Her findings may surprise you. Madeleine shares the commonalities that she found across the board with these high achieving creatives, the freeing concept of the “day artist” and what we can actually learn from our impulse to “compare and despair.” Madeleine's Substack The Career Motivation Quiz I Didn't Do the Thing Today Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar column This episode is sponsored by HSL Digital. Do you know what kind of marketing support you (really) need?

Are you one of those people who thrives off a check-list? It feels satisfying to complete things, but the satisfaction only lasts for a fleeting moment as a cleared check-list invites more tasks. It's an exhausting treadmill that inevitably gives rise to guilt and shame when we can't keep up. Madeleine Dore, author of “I Didn't Do the Thing Today; letting go of productivity guilt” joins us to talk about giving yourself permission to let go to focus on what really matters. We'll talk about the difference between happiness and satisfaction, burnout and how to spot it, and how to create your own user manual so we can live a more energized and rewarding life that's tailored just for us. Show notes and links for this episode are at http://reconsidering.org/episodes/29

In our third episode of our Summer Series, we revisit Kate's conversation with Madeleine Dore which was a hugely popular ep to kick off 2022. We hope you can apply her energy to your 2023 new year! Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer, interviewer and founder of Extraordinary Routines. Since 2014, Dore has been asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts. Her interviews, life-experiments, and articles have appeared in Sunday Life, Womankind, BBC, and more and her latest offering is her first book, I Didn't Do the Thing Today: On letting go of productivity guilt, published in Australia and the in the US in January 2022. Check out this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter (@thefirsttimepod) or Instagram (@thefirsttimepod). Don't forget you can support us and the making of Season Six via our Patreon page. Thanks for joining us and we look forward to bringing you brand new episodes from March 2023!

In this week's episode we chat to the wonderfully poetic and infinitely wise Madeleine Dore (Author) about holding things lightly, choosing your own measures, borrowing other people's goals, shifting from ambition to drive, creating momentum, asking yourself what you really want and how you know what voice is true, productivity guilt, training wheels for rest, recognising or deciding our internal seasons, looking at your feet, not the mountain, productivity cyclones, the arrival fallacy, permission to allow flow, wanting and play, writing in the gush, collecting failures like stamps, and how you can't waste time in advance. References: 7 types of rest Period Queen by Lucy Peach Bullet journalling Pomodoro Technique That awesome Walt Whitman quote Where to find Madeleine: Substack Website Extraordinary Routines Routines & Ruts Podcast Buy her book "I Didn't Do The Thing Today"

Recommend this show by sharing the link: pod.link/2Pages I still remember reading my first Nicholson Baker book, The Mezzanine. This extraordinary book slows down the pace of life to one where all the details are able to be noticed. For someone like me–a little bit in my head and moving too fast–reading the book resembles bullet time from The Matrix movies, only with the detritus of everyday living zipping past, instead.  Madeleine Dore reminds me of myself; both a great author and a great asker of questions, though they differ a bit from mine. She's made a career out of asking obvious questions to important people, with all of the answers she's received ending up in her best-selling book I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt.  Get‌ ‌book‌ ‌links‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌at‌ https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/  Madeleine reads two pages from ‘Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life,' by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. [reading begins at 12:12]  Hear us discuss:  Making more generous assumptions. [16:24] | The relationship between playfulness and routine. [17:15] | Knowing what's essential vs transitory about yourself: “It takes a long time to become who you are.” [20:12] | “Things are just experiments and projects—we're not tied to anything forever.” [25:28] | The complexity of awaiting your next project. [26:35]

Are you dissatisfied with your life or the season you're in? Do you wish you could just pinpoint the reason you're stuck so you can change it? If so, this is the episode for you. This week, we were joined by Madeleine Dore, the author of one of our favorite books, “I Didn't Do the Thing Today.” During our conversation, we explored the ways routines can take over our lives and how ruts can show us what we need to change. Madeleine shared how curiosity can be our greatest weapon. We also got a great reminder that resting for rest's sake is just as important as the things we do.This conversation was filled with warmth and laughter from the moment we met. Madeleine has so much to share from what she's learned and how she's living it out. After listening, don't forget to check out the link to the book below so you can keep finding your own way of being in the world!In this episode, you'll learn:About our weekly ruts and routines and what we're learning from them.How to get curious about your ruts and routines so you can see the value in both.Why routines often lead to feelings of failure rather than the control they're supposed to create.How to find your own way of being when it's not supported by the world around you.Plus, how trying to be the person you want to be can become its own illusion of perfection.The importance of being a sponge and embracing the sweetness of doing nothing.Why we need these periods of absorption to have seasons of squeeze.Tips for letting go of the guilt that comes with rest and appreciating downtime as an opportunity to absorb.That comparison can be the flipside to curiosity, using what you learn from others to deplete you rather than feed you.Why Madeleine wants to inspire people to be more curious about each other, ourselves, and our stories.Find Madeleine on Instagram and on her website, where you'll also find her book, “I Didn't Do the Thing Today.”The "Flexible checkbox" approach of Austin Kleon can be found here.You can find “Master Your Emotions” here.

We hold ourselves to extraordinarily high standards in this day and age. We set a high bar for ourselves with work, hobbies, health, and more. If you're someone like me, you may be unkind to yourself when you fall short of your goals. Madeleine Dore tackles the productivity guilt struggle in her book "I Didn't Do The Thing Today" and shares rich insight to help navigate the bumps we all face in life that get in the way of our goals. 

We hold ourselves to extraordinarily high standards in this day and age. We set a high bar for ourselves with work, hobbies, health, and more. If you're someone like me, you may be unkind to yourself when you fall short of your goals. Madeleine Dore tackles the productivity guilt struggle in her book "I Didn't Do The Thing Today" and shares rich insight to help navigate the bumps we all face in life that get in the way of our goals. 

To end the podcast, host Madeleine Dore takes us back to the beginning and shares a free sample from the audio version of I Didn't Do The Thing Today. — GET THE BOOK:  I Didn't Do The Thing Today— STAY IN TOUCH: Subscribe the the newsletter Madeleine Dore—On Things.

I'm a productivity junkie in recovery. I've read just about every productivity and habit change book you can think of. From time blocking and “inbox zero”, to nootropics, I've tried almost everything. And while I've certainly learned many tactics, I've also learned that most things don't last. We all need to find what works for us individually; and maybe accept that we are not, or at least don't have to be, so productive all the time.  In a quest to boost her own productivity, my guest on this week's podcast discovered that the secret is to reframe and redefine it altogether.  Listen and learn: How all types of creativity can be a form of productivity How not to succumb to the comparison trap and find what works for you Whether joy and ease motivate you, or fear and pain What's behind this increased focus on achieving productivity Links Madeleine's Website ABOUT OUR GUEST Madeleine Dore spent five years researching how creative people organize their lives through her popular blog, Extraordinary Routines, and her podcast, Routines & Ruts. The lessons culminated in her first book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today. Like the Show? Leave us a review Check out our YouTube channel Visit www.yogabody.com

You struggle with being productive. So you decide you need to establish a routine for yourself. You get real gung-ho about this routine — this is going to be the thing that changes everything! But then you fail to stick to it. So you flagellate yourself for that failure and decide what you need is a different routine. But then you don't stick with that routine either. The cycle then repeats itself, leaving you no more productive than you were at the start.My guest, Madeleine Dore, found herself stuck in this cycle. So she decided to start interviewing successful creative types to get their secrets to an optimal routine. Yet these folks would confide to her a different secret: they actually didn't have a routine either.Madeleine has come to believe something that I've discovered too: routines aren't all they're cracked up to be and you can actually still be very creative and productive even if you go about each day in a looser, more ad-hoc fashion.Today on the show, I talk to Madeleine, who's the author of I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt, about how the all-or-nothing thinking which surrounds routines can actually sabotage our effectiveness. We then discuss alternatives to keeping a strict routine that still allow you to get stuff done, including moving to a “portable routine,” taking advantage of “splodge time,” and embracing cycles and seasons in your work. We also discuss other ways to let go of unuseful productivity guilt, including setting realistic expectations and not eating the frog first.Resources Related to the PodcastHow to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day by Arnold BennettAustin KleonAoM article on the “possibilities in spare moments”AoM article on Emerson, pear trees, and the seasons of lifeAoM article on famous men who took advantage of “splodge time” to become a successAoM Podcast #602: The Case for Being UnproductiveConnect With Madeleine DoreMadeleine's WebsiteMadeleine on IG

This week - the end of our financial year - Rachel and Lynne talk about fatigue. Ever since we spoke to Madeleine Dore about the cult of productivity, we've been mindful of not ignoring our fatigue levels and trying to be kind to ourselves. We recognise when we're at our best and when we're just pushing through  to feel a bit ahead the next day.  We share our tips about how we stay fresh, relevant and how we both avoid burnout. This podcast is sponsored by our good friends at Rounded, easy accounting and invoicing software, made just for Australian freelancers and sole traders. It's everything you need to make freelancing easier! Find out more at Rounded.com.au. Rachel's List is here: https://www.rachelslist.com.au/ Rachel's own website is: https://rachelsmith.com.au/ Lynne's website is: https://www.lynnetestoni.com/  

In this perspective-shifting episode, Madeleine Dore (author of I Didn't Do The Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt) chats about all sorts of important ideas, especially as summer's restful embrace invites us to slow down and play. Madeleine discusses why ‘perfection' is a flawed concept (and what's better than striving for perfection), the importance of taking productivity down off its pedestal, the bright side of not completing your to do list, the importance of being curious to question where our productivity guilt comes from, as well as broadening the measure of a day to celebrate the variances there within (as well as the variances within ourselves). Madeleine provides insight on the daunting nature of ‘space' that rest affords us, practical tips for living presently in our days, the ways Madeleine chooses to measure her days beyond ‘being productive', why the very ‘quantifiable' measure of productivity is actually an imperfect metric too and what the term ‘precrastination' means. It's a BIG one! After the conversation, Diana shares her plans for rest this summer and why she's both nervous and excited about taking some time off.

We're long-time fans of Madeleine Dore, a writer and interviewer who's spent five years asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog Extraordinary Routines (and podcast Routines & Ruts). And in this episode, we chat to Madeleine about what she's learned from the project and the book it inspired: I Didn't Do The Thing Today. This lively episode delves into a completely different way to think about productivity, and freeing yourself from productivity guilt in general. Psst! Don't forget to head to the blog at Rachel's List to win one of 3 x copies of Madeleine's book (winners announced Friday, June 24!) More about Madeleine Extraordinary Routines https://extraordinaryroutines.com/ Madeleine's website https://www.madeleinedore.com/about Win the book! https://www.rachelslist.com.au/blog/holding-things-lightly-an-extract-from-i-didnt-do-the-thing-today-a-giveaway/ Buy the book https://www.booktopia.com.au/i-didn-t-do-the-thing-today-madeleine-dore/book/9781922351500.html? 

Recent author and curator of creative spaces and events, Madeleine More just released her first book with the a title that speaks to us all ‘I Didn't Do The Thing Today: On letting go of productivity guilt.' A topic that almost every creative entrepreneur and business owner I know struggles with, Madeleine share insights on how to overcome the inner critic that stifles our creativity when we think we haven't done enough. Madeleine shares her insights into writing the book, getting a publishing deal and tips for those looking to do the same. 

Madeleine Dore is a writer. She's recently released her first book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today, all about letting go of productivity guilt (which I talked about on episode 157 of Steph's Business Bookshelf (listen here)). In her writing, both in the book and in her Extraordinary Routines newsletter, she brings in such a breadth of different quotes and references. So in this conversation I ask her more about how she reads, dig into her process of note taking and collation, and how writing a book impacts the way she reads. Madeleine is such a pleasure to talk to, I hope you enjoy this conversation. Find out more about Madeleine here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Madeleine Dore is my guest today, a writer and interviewer exploring how we can broaden the definition of a day well spent. Her book I Didn't Do The Thing Today is gentle wise and insightful look at letting go of productivity guilt and it is out now. It's a truly wonderful look at how we unravel the relationship between our output with inner self worth. With Madeleine's excellent writing interspersed with lots of other wise voices, this book helps the reader feel less anxious, stressed or disappointed and takes productive routines off a pedestal and helps us embrace the messy middle bits. For the past five years, Madeline has been asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts which I highly recommend you check out. Hope you enjoy this conversation!- Buy I Didn't Do The Thing Today here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781922351500- My books:.https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon- My favourite 2020 books: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/my-favourite-reads-of-2020-9bf19342-f535-4856-ab1a-d523f5ecd98a- My 2021 picks: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/2021-books-i-m-excited-about-619ab32f-f22e-4282-a0e7-71732055e3c7- Twitter: Twitter.com/emmagannon- Instagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Do you judge yourself for not being productive enough? We do… Ellen and Yvette chats to Madeleine Dore, Author of the book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today about why we should all take productivity off its pedestal. Madeleine is all about dismantling our comparison to others, aspirational routines, and the unrealistic notions of what can be done in a day. She says that, only by doing this, can we finally embrace the joyful messiness and unpredictability of life. Follow Mentally Yours on social media... www.twitter.com/mentallyyrs Join our private Facebook group... www.facebook.com/groups/135088803805742 And check out Madeleine's work online... https://extraordinaryroutines.com/podcast

Hey, have you subscribed to the bookmark newsletter? If you liked this, you might like my twice-monthly email with book reviews and ideas of what you should be reading, and listening to, next. Click here to subscribe. It's time for my quarterly review of the best books of 2022 (so far), talking about the six books I've loved the most over the first few months of 2022, featuring... Stolen Focus by Johann Hari (listen to the full episode about the book here) I Didn't Do the Thing Today by Madeleine Dore (listen to the full episode about the book here) This Working Life by Lisa Leong & Monique Ross (listen to the full episode about the book here) Will by Will Smith & Mark Manson (read the review here) Imaginable by Jane McGonigal Creative Acts for Curious People by Sarah Greenberg   Let's connect LinkedIn Instagram  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

That voice inside our head always seems to judge what we didn't do well, never what we did. So how do we reframe this? Melbourne author Madeleine Dore's book “I Didn't Do the Thing Today”  looks at the kind of productivity guilt we all suffer and she points up some of the simple traps that might be unwittingly making you less happy than you deserve to be.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Madeleine Dore, an author and podcast host, offers a cure for “productivity guilt.” That's the cycle of dejection she says many of us suffer from when we never reach the end of our lengthy to-do lists (even with modern technology to make us more efficient). Instead of trying to optimize our time, she suggests ways we can step back, listen to ourselves, and plan our days around delight. She offers tips and tricks to make this transition and explains why it can be good for business overall. Dore hosts the podcast Routines & Ruts and wrote the new book I Didn't Do the Thing Today.

We all aspire to be more productive, get our systems and processes firing and our businesses running like a well-oiled machine. I don't know about you but some days I just can't get there. The to-do list seems endless and the fabulous process I thought would get me from A to B and save me SO much time just isn't working. So, when it comes to productivity hacks and extraordinary routines, I thought I'd called in an expert. Today's guest, Madeleine Dore is  a writer, interviewer and host of podcast Routines and Ruts.  Over the last five years Madeleine has been searching for the secret to productivity, asking countless creative thinkers to share their routines and how they navigate their day. We're exploring what productivity means, and how to get rid of productivity guilt when we didn't manage to do the ‘thing' today.We also chat about:Productivity secrets and Madeleine's unexpected discovery when researching  her book; Why we need to stop worrying about ‘wasted time';Creating space for creativity and why it's so important;Do routines really matter and what to do when you get stuck in a rut.Why the story you're telling yourself might lead to burnout and disappointment rather than success.Madeleine's new book I Didn't Do The Thing Today is available now from allgood booksellers.Connect with Madeleine on Instagram here or visit the website Extraordinary Routines.This episode is brought to you by The Pricing Formula.If you struggle to price your products and services, never know what margin to add, wonder when and how often to increase your prices, or if you can't afford to take a salary then you need to try The Pricing Formula.My signature service is a practical, proven and realistic way to set your prices. It works for both product and service based business and it's tailored to help you design a profitable and sustainable business and a life you'll love.I cover all the bases from mindset to the practical and there's loads of easy to use plug and play templates included. And you don't need to be a numbers expert because, with a few simple steps, I'll show you exactly how to set the perfect prices for your business.It's time to take pricing out of the too hard basket. My signature 1:1 service, the pricing formula is available now. But if you'd prefer to work at your own pace, registrations are now open for the new pricing formula course. Learn more.Not sure if coaching is right for you? Book a Discovery Call NOW.Join the conversationDiscover the Secrets of Successful Business Facebook page Follow Justine on Instagram @flossifiles or @secretsofsuccessfulbusinessHost: Justine McLean – Flossi CreativeProducer: Leah Stanistreet – Snappystreet CreativeEditorial: Darian Allan - Choosing JoyEditorial: Kanika SachdevMusic: Francesco D'AndreaThis show is powered by Buzzsprout

Welcome back to a new season of the Solo Collective, with Rebecca Seal. We are delighted to have you with us. This episode is a fascinating conversation with Madeleine Dore, founder of the website Extraordinary Routines, which started off as a way for Madeleine to try to find herself an optimum routine by interviewing other people about theirs, but quickly turned into an exploration of the myths around productivity and the complex ways in which our personal productivity becomes enmeshed with our ideas of self worth. Madeleine has just written a fantastic book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today which is about letting go of productivity guilt (and much, much more). She is also host of the Routines and Ruts podcast. Madeleine is based in Australia. The Solo Collective is sponsored by Tide business banking: banking made easy for sole traders and small businesses. We are also sponsored by Pension Bee, which has a flexible pension product specifically for self employed people. More from Madeleine Dore:Find her on Instagram: @extraordinary_routinesHer website: https://extraordinaryroutines.com/More from Rebecca Seal:Instagram: @bexseal ; @the_solo_collectiveTwitter: @RebeccaSealWebsite: How To Work AloneThis series is produced by Hester Cant See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Struggling to get anything done? Constantly torturing yourself over what you could've achieved if only you had a routine, stuck to a schedule, magically became a more productive, focused person? You're not alone.Join us for a chat with Madeleine Dore: Melbourne journalist, interviewer and creator of the Everyday Routines project.. She takes us through how to approach our days creatively, why we get stuck and how even the most prolific creatives battle with their routines.Want to hear more from Madeleine? We loved her book, I Didn't Do the Thing Today: On Letting Go of Productivity Guilt:https://www.murdochbooks.com.au/browse/books/other-books/I-Didnt-Do-The-Thing-Today-Madeleine-Dore-9781922351500 You can find her interviews, podcast & other work at:https://extraordinaryroutines.com/ Her instagram is: @extraordinary_routines

John, Alison and Liz have been nominated for a BSFA Award! (Also, Liz is on holiday, naturally.) Please email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: None Letters of comment Chris Garcia The Flying Fantastical Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore Peter Sullivan Chris for TAFF Kin-Ming Looi Duncan MacGregor Lori Anderson Hugo deadline is March 15th We recommended some things on Cora Buhlert's blog Tears of the Anaren by C. W. Longbottom Eastercon: What do you want from your bids? Liz: Who's running it and why? Where and why? Are there significant drawbacks? Commitment to having code of conduct/access policies, even if they're in progress Why will it be particularly fun? What bits of Eastercon tradition don't you plan to implement (if any)? What are your plans for hybrid/virtual content? Do you have a good presentation that shows you have organisational nous? Alison: Expanding on who's running the convention a little Are you running at Easter? (See Eastercon tradition) What about real ale? What are your provisions for children? John: How much will it cost? Picks Liz: The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams: The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek (hardback, epub, Kindle) John: Android: Netrunner (eBay) Alison: I Didn't Do the Thing Today by Madeleine Dore (paperback, epub, Kindle) The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (paperback, epub, Kindle) Music credits Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 4.0 license

This week Rachel would rather be talking to her new friend Madeleine about letting yourself off the hook and shelving today's to do list -- and learning how to NOT do the thing today. I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt by Madeleine Dore

In this episode, I talk with Madeleine Dore, a writer and interviewer based in Melbourne, Australia. Madeleine's work explores how we can broaden the definition of a day well spent. As a labour of love, Madeleine spent over five years asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts. In this episode, we talk about embracing your ruts, when routines help us and when they hurt us, and how Madeleine plays in her practice. We also talk about the writing process behind her new book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt. Find out more about her work: www.Madeleinedore.com Check out Madeleine's new book: I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt ++++ Our FREE WORKSHOP: Developing a Creative Process is coming up on February 24th 6-7pm Central time. Join us! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/amightypractice/support

We are obsessed with the idea that we need to be more productive at all times, and that we'll be happier people if we just figure out the best way to optimize our productivity. This week, Madeleine Dore joins the podcast to blow up this toxic mindset towards productivity. Madeleine is the author of the book I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt, which dismantles aspirational routines in favor of the joyful messiness and unpredictability of life. On the pod, she talks to Jon about our complicated relationship with productivity, as well as other self-doubting habits we need to break. She also discusses what we should focus on instead, and how to form a healthier mindset towards creating a meaningful life.

Do you worry about wasting time? Writer and podcaster Madeleine Dore wants you to stop getting sucked into this rhetoric and instead embrace imperfections, work with your limitations (i.e. your energy and resources) and fill your time with things you love. She shares her thoughts about how best to spend your time. WANT MORE FROM MADELEINE? You can find Madeleine’s book, I Didn’t Do The Thing Today (Murdoch Books, $32.99), here. Or, see her Instagram @extraordinary_routines and website, here. WANT MORE BODY + SOUL? Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley. On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV, here. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's your definition of a day well spent? Writer and podcaster Madeleine Dore wants you to stop feeling guilty for not being productive enough and appreciate your life for what it is. She discusses how to let go of productivity guilt and why creativity is a better way to measure your day.    WANT MORE FROM MADELEINE? To hear today's full interview, where she discusses time optimists vs time realists...search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. You can find Madeleine's book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today (Murdoch Books, $32.99), here. Or, see her Instagram @extraordinary_routines and website, here.    WANT MORE BODY + SOUL?  Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode? DM host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley.  On YouTube: Watch Body + Soul TV, here. In print: Each Sunday, grab Body+Soul inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania).  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You know that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you're relaxing and think you have something else you should be doing? That's called productivity guilt. We've conditioned ourselves to believe that we should be filling up every second of the day with things that need to get done. Is that really what life is all about? Madeleine Dore is an Australian writer, interviewer, and I'd call her a researcher as well. She's spent the last 5 years asking people how they navigate their days and productivity. What she's discovered is that so much of what we think will help us get things done is actually setting us up to fail. Her first book "I Didn't Do The Thing Today: Letting Go Of Productivity Guilt" is fantastic. We discuss how we got to where we are as a society driven by getting things done, how to-do lists kill our creativity and our mutual love for the children's program Bluey. If you want to learn more about Madeleine, you can check out her website, https://www.madeleinedore.com/ (madeleinedore.com), or listen to her podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/routines-ruts/id1490791468 (Routines & Ruts.)

Madeleine Dore, I DIDN'T DO THE THING TODAY: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt How to release productivity guilt and embrace the hidden values in our daily lives, for anyone who has ever felt the pressure to do more, be more, achieve more, this antidote to our doing-obsession is the permission slip we all need to find our own way. How to release productivity guilt and embrace the hidden values in our daily lives. Ever have that kind of day? You know, those days where you add more to your to-do list than you check off; you can't find your keys or your motivation; and no matter how many bullet journals you buy, you never seem to grasp your full potential. Writer and Routines & Ruts podcast host Madeleine Dore knows those days all too well. In I DIDN'T DO THE THING TODAY, Dore gives us permission to leave the cult of productivity and embrace the creativity and freedom found in a bulletpoint-free life. A companion for the days that don't go as planned, I DIDN'T DO THE THING TODAY offers a reprieve from our productivity obsession, unpacking various ways we encounter productivity guilt—including comparison to others, striving for perfection, and our great expectations—to point to how a day doesn't have to be optimized, but simply occupied. Over the past five years, Madeleine has interviewed hundreds of creative people about their daily routines for her popular blog, Extraordinary Routines, and podcast, Routines and Ruts. I DIDN'T DO THE THING TODAY is the culmination of everything Madeleine has learned about how to reframe and at times reject our obsession with output, optimization, and productivity.

How to release productivity guilt and embrace the hidden values in our daily lives. Any given day brings a never-ending list of things to do. There's the work thing, the catch-up thing, the laundry thing, the creative thing, the exercise thing, the family thing, the thing we don't want to do, and the thing we've been putting off, despite it being the most important thing. Even on days when we get a lot done, the thing left undone can leave us feeling guilty, anxious, or disappointed.  After five years of searching for the secret to productivity, Madeleine Dore discovered there isn't one. Instead, we're being set up to fail. I Didn't Do the Thing Today is the inspiring call to take productivity off its pedestal—by dismantling our comparison to others, aspirational routines, and the unrealistic notions of what can be done in a day, we can finally embrace the joyful messiness and unpredictability of life. For anyone who has ever felt the pressure to do more, be more, achieve more, this antidote to our doing-obsession is the permission slip we all need to find our own way. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you enjoy this episode and want more bonus insights, big ideas, and recommendations to improve your own reading, check out the bookmark membership on Patreon. About the book Any given day brings a never-ending list of things to do. There's the work thing, the catch-up thing, the laundry thing, the creative thing, the exercise thing, the family thing, the thing we don't want to do, the thing we've been putting off (despite it being the most important thing). Even on days where we get a lot done, the thing left undone can leave us feeling guilty, anxious, or disappointed. After five years of searching for the secret to productivity, Madeleine Dore discovered there isn't one. Instead, we're being set up to fail. I Didn't Do The Thing Today is the inspiring call to take productivity off its pedestal — by dismantling our comparison to others, aspirational routines, and the unrealistic notions of what can be done in a day, we can finally embrace the joyful messiness and unpredictability of life. For anyone who has ever felt the pressure to do more, be more, achieve more, this antidote to our doing-obsession is the permission slip we all need to find our own way. Source: https://extraordinaryroutines.com/book About the author Madeleine Dore is a writer and interviewer exploring how we can broaden the definition of a day well spent. For the past five years, Madeleine has been asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts. She has contributed columns and features to Sunday Life, BBC WorkLife, ArtsHub, 99u, Womankind, Kill Your Darlings, The Design Files, ABC Life and more. Madeleine regularly conducts life experiments and hosts events to explore how creativity isn't just something we do, but how we approach our lives. Source: https://extraordinaryroutines.com/about Big idea #1 — Be a day artist One of the underlying ideas is this concept of being a ‘day artist', or seeing each day as a work of art. Being creative, rather than doing creativity in how we live. This means being creative with the elements of a day, even when that day doesn't go to plan. There's a nice quote in the book from Helena Bonham Carter that says;“Everything in life is art. What you do, how you dress, the way you love someone and how you talk, your smile and your personality, what you believe in and all your dreams, the way you drink your tea, how you decorate your home, or party ,your grocery list, the food you make, how your writing looks, the way you feel. Life is art.” It's a great reminder that we get to choose how to live. It's quite a freeing idea. Taking this approach involves a little bit more play, and wonder and curiosity.  Maybe you don't start the day by ‘eating the frog' or doing the most unpleasant thing first, but maybe you start the day with something that's pure pleasure instead. There's a fantastic example in the book, about a chef who starts the day with a bowl of porridge with a dollop of clotted cream on top, along with some brown sugar, and he just thinks that's the best way to start the day because by breakfast, he's already won the day! A perfect example of prioritizing delight over dread. Being a day artist might mean making changes to your environment, having a corner of a room dedicated to reading, for example. It doesn't need to be that you need lots of extra space, but maybe you just use your space differently. There's example in the book from Austin Kleon, who talks about having a really clear, crisp, clean work area with his computer where he writes, but then a really messy desk, which is where he does all his messy collage work. It means letting go of expectations, or at least holding them much more lightly and letting things surprise us, which can then allow us to explore what we really want, not just what we think we “should” be doing. Now, we can't seek constant novelty in life, but we can be much more attuned to it and leave space for surprise, even if it's just for an hour or 10 minutes in our day. Big idea #2 — Embrace the wobble There's lots of wobbling in our days. Maybe something takes longer than planned, or there's a distraction, an interruption, or a drama. Whatever it might be, embracing the wobble means that we might need to find ‘puddles' of time, rather than needing perfect blocks of uninterrupted time in order to get things done. It's more about self-awareness, than self-regulation, which a lot of productivity guidance can be a bit heavy on. Wobbling is a constant adjustment, we're constantly twisting and turning and balancing and bumping into things. But berating ourselves for our inconsistency takes up the precious time that we're telling ourselves off for wasting in the first place. There is no dress rehearsal in life, this is it. Maybe we need to stop letting ambition get in our way. Sometimes ambition can be a good thing, but sometimes it can be a pursuit of recognition from others, rather than a focus on doing things that we want to do. It's obviously not all bad, but maybe being more micro-ambitious, a term that she took from the wonderful Tim Minchin, is a healthier and more flexible approach that allows us to focus in what's in front of us, in the present instead of what's next. Psst, have you subscribed to the bookmark newsletter? If you liked this, you might like my twice-monthly email with book reviews and ideas of what you should be reading, and listening to, next. Click here to subscribe. Big idea #3 — Kindness over busy-ness None of us need telling twice about the modern scourge of busy-ness. It's such a barrier to connection and it's a fast track to burnout. Kindness, Madeleine says, is the antidote to burnout. Kindness with ourselves and with others. Whether that's a chat with the person serving you at the post office, or making a donation to charity, or texting a friend to say hi, incorporating a bit more kindness into our days, rather than busy-ness, can be a nice way of slowing down and remembering what's important. Kindness extends to ourselves by knowing that rest is not a bad thing. Hobbies don't need to be a side-hustles, and we can challenge all the things we tell ourselves that we should do. Otherwise it's easy to find ourselves too busy to actually enjoy life. There's a really nice analogy in the book of being like a sponge. Sometimes we're in absorption mode soaking up, resting, learning, taking in knowledge etc, but too long in absorb mode will leave us kind of sodden and a bit soggy and wet. So we need to be squeezed. We need a bit of pressure to balance us out. Ultimately, Madeline says;“Maybe we can't expect to enjoy every day, but we can find it endearing. When we reach the end of the day, instead of berating ourselves, what we did or didn't do, we can be charmed by the ordinary moments of living and what our days can bring.” Which I think is a rather nice way of thinking about life. Let's connect LinkedIn Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So many of us are trapped in a never-ending to-do list, looking for the next solution to make us more efficient. But often what we're left with is feeling inadequate, overwhelmed, burnt out and alone. Madeleine Dore is a writer and interviewer who explores how we can broaden the definition of a day well spent, through regular life experiments and events to examine how creativity isn't just something we do, but how we approach our lives. Madeleine spent five years looking for the secret to productivity, only to find there isn't one. Instead, she reveals, we're being set up to fail. Her new book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today, encourages us to say no to more time management techniques and yes to the joyful messiness and unpredictability of life  Dore has been asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts. She regularly conducts life experiments and hosts events to examine how creativity isn't just something we do, but how we approach our lives.

Parents of small children are used to having a long list of things they need to do. There are the daily chores like feeding, clothing and cleaning small humans, and then there are the extracurriculars like birthday parties, swimming lessons and visits to relatives. Sometimes the only way to get on top of all the things is to create a list. But lists themselves can be problematic. Madeleine Dore is the author of I Didn't Do the Thing Today, where she explores the idea that we have a problem with productivity. Madeleine gives us some ideas on how we can change the way we look at the things we need to do. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's guest is Madeleine Dore, a Melbourne-based writer and interviewer exploring how we can broaden the definition of a day well spent. For the past five years, Madeleine has been asking people about how they navigate their day on her popular site Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts. Most recently, she's written a book called I Didn't Do The Thing Today, out this week. I flew through an early copy and bring up some of my favorite insights from the book in this conversation. We also talk about finding richness in ruts, the paradox of choice and “infinite browsing mode", leaving space for surprise in our days, two kinds of perfectionism, the difference between standards and expectations, cringing at old work, and more. I loved speaking with her and I'm excited to hear your thoughts on finding richness in routines. Show Notes:- There are currently two spots open in my one-on-one creative consulting! If you want to work with me, learn more here and book a free session with me to see if it's a correct fit. - I mention my Podcast Kit in this episode. You can find it here (22% off with code twentytwo)- If you happen to already have a podcast and want to learn more about growing it, check out our Market & Monetize kit (22% off with code twentytwo)- Since we talk about interviewing in this episode, if you want to learn more, we have a kit called Art of an Interview (22% off with code twentytwo)- All Let it Out Kits are 22 percent off, including our special holiday Remix Your Resolutions kit. Offer code: twentytwo- Subscribe to our newsletter to get show notes sent straight to your inbox- Follow @letitouttt on Instagram- Photo credit: Prue Aja If you liked this episode, try out:Episode 364: Squishy Hearts, "Rejection as Protection", Inner Teenagers, Dating & Breakups with Mari Andrews, Author & Illustrator [UPDATED REPOST] Sponsors:SaneBox: magically remove distractions from your inbox with a free two-week trial. Get a $25 credit when you go to sanebox.com/letitoutBombas: With every purchase of clothing, an equal item is donated to people in need. Get 20% off at bombas.com/letitoutCalm: Discover the #1 mental wellness app! Get 40% off a Calm Premium subscription at calm.com/letitout

A special episode to kick of 2022! Kate speaks to writer and podcaster, Madeleine Dore about her creative career and her brand new book I Didn't Do the Thing Today: On letting go of productivity guilt. If you're keen for other writerly things to kick off your year, join Kate in her online workshop Basics for Beginners with Writers Victoria on Jan 29, 2022. And subscribe to the podcast to make sure you don't miss our deep dive on Katherine's new book The Competition in the lead up to its release on Feb 1st! Check out show notes for this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter (@thefirsttimepod) or Instagram (@thefirsttimepod). Don't forget you can support us and the making of Season Five via our Patreon page. Thanks for joining us!

160. Madeleine Dore on avoiding guilt, busyness & indecision.   Photo credit: Prue Aja

Did you do the thing today? And if you didn't, how do you feel about the fact you didn't do the thing? Today we are talking about procrastination, guilt, perfectionism and the worry of wasted time with writer and podcast host, Madeleine Dore.  Madeleine has spent the last five years asking creative thinkers how they navigate their days on her popular blog Extraordinary Routines and podcast Routines & Ruts.Mentioned throughout the episode: Book: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold BennettRoutine and Ruts podcast episodes: Hilary Jacobs Hendel on emotions, types of shame, and slowing downPre-order Madeleine's book, I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt in Aus and in the US here - www.madeleinedore.com/booksFollow Madeliene on Instagram:  @extraordinary_routinesListen to Madeleine's podcast, Routines and Ruts: https://extraordinaryroutines.com/podcastLearn more about Extraordinary Routines here: www.extraordinaryroutines.comLearn more about Madeleine and her work here: www.madeleinedore.com

It's been a minute! To introduce season three, host Madeleine Dore reflects on disappearing for a while to write her first book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today.Also, to delve further into the lessons on letting go of productivity guilt, this season Madeleine will be dishing up counterintuitive lessons in the hope that it can lead you to figuring out your own needs, patterns, and way of doing thingsPRE-ORDER THE BOOK: I Didn't Do The Thing TodaySUBMIT YOUR PRODUCTIVITY QUANDARY:  madeleinedore.com/ask  

This week's mini episode asks, how do we spend less time ruminating and worrying about what other think? * * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, where you can also join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions to make time for the things that replenish you. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

 “Ultimately the goal is to communicate our wants, needs, fears and boundaries confidently and effectively.” – Hilary Jacobs HendelPsychotherapist and author of It's Not Always Depression: Working the change triangle to listen to the body, Discover Core Emotions and Reconnect with Your Authentic Self  talks about the importance of emotional education to help us connect to each other and ourselves. In this conversation, we talk about how emotions live in the body, why we avoid feelings and how to judging them, slowing down, the power of feeling, dealing and relating, the different types of shame, guilt and boundaries, moving through small traumas, how we are made up of parts, and how something as simple as learning to take a compliment can help us sit with emotions.Find more resources at www.hilaryjacobshendel.com* * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, or join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

 “Often we think within our 10-foot radius that everything is happening to us. Step outside of that 10-foot radius and you’ll frequently see that the same things are happening to others around you at the same time. Perhaps that can make it easier if we’re able to see that it is not just all about us.” – Greg QuickeSelf-taught bush astronomer and author of Is The Moon Upside Down? Greg Quicke talks about the powerful lessons for everyday life we can find in the cosmos. In this conversation, we delve the awe-inspiring ways astronomy can stretch our minds and hearts—how it can be a reminder that we’ve got nothing to lose, and the relationship between order and chaos. We talk about meeting challenges with joy, how to find and follow your flow, cultivating patience, and choosing to see beauty in the ordinary and extraordinary.* * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, or join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

This week's mini episode asks, how do we learn to ask generously and say no kindly? * * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, where you can also join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions to make time for the things that replenish you. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

"If we’re going to get serious about talking about disability and mental health, then we need to talk about what that really looks like for everyone involved.” –Kylie MaslenAuthor of  Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with Invisible Illness Kylie Maslen discusses how creating a shared understanding of someone’s day to day can help break down the barriers between the well and unwell. In this conversation,  we discuss the importance of routine to reduce decision fatigue, but also the flip side of this constant vigilance. We also delve into burnout, the ableist idea of equating output with our worth, the Pomodoro technique, isolation and loneliness, community, and Kylie introduces me to spoon theory as a way to create boundaries but also be generous with other people’s energy. * * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, or join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

This week's mini episode asks, how do allow both attention and  distraction into our days? * * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, where you can also join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions to make time for the things that replenish you. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

Author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World Tyson Yunkaporta speaks to how when we reduce creativity to a marketplace, we overlook how we are all creative. “Creativity is now widely regarded as a vaguely defined skill-set falling randomly on individual geniuses. Deep engagement encompassing mind, body, heart and spirit has been replaced by a dogged ethic of commitment to labour, enthusiastic compliance with discipline imposed by authority," writes Tyson. In this conversation, we meander through topics including routine as the death of relation to people and place, the involuntary ruts we experience from being entangled in a system, allowing flow in your environment, not being a brand, checks and balances, and how ambition can be directed towards leaving tools for generations to come – and the most powerful of those tools being story. * * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, or join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

This week's mini episode asks, how do we let go of what we think we 'should' be doing? * * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, where you can also join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions to make time for the things that replenish you. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

Pandora Sykes is a writer, journalist and broadcaster—but as she shares in this conversation, she’s a gatherer. In the book, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?, her writing and columns and in the acclaimed weekly podcast The High Low she co-hosts with Dolly Alderton — Pandora is constantly collecting, exploring and dissecting the work of writers, psychologists, culture critics, philosophers, scientists on everything from life’s trivialities to the political—and how the two are interconnected.In this conversation, we speak about how smaller worries can sometimes feel the biggest, how we can be driven by feelings like guilt and envy rather than feel stifled, satisficing, arrival fallacy, healthy boredom, tick-boxing and finding our own version of what what is rightful, rather than right. * * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, or join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

This week's mini episode asks, how can we get out of the indecision spiral? * * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, where you can also join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions to make time for the things that replenish you. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

Sarah Wilson is a former journalist and TV presenter, best-selling author and activist, whose latest book This One Wild and Precious Life explores how vital individual change is in a world demanding more of usIn this conversation, we speak about using routine to bookend your days, tilting rather than abiding by strict rules, cool aloneness as an antidote to loneliness, how you can always add an AND, the concept of creative fending, reframing a rut as going to your edge, soul-nerding, and showing up to our appointment in life – in our own way.  For details on the 2021 This One Wild and Precious Life book tour, visit sarahwilson.com* * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, or join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

This week's mini episode asks, can empty time be a gift—and can we find it in a crammed life?  * * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, where you can also join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions to make time for the things that replenish you. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

From working as a baker and a chef, to an actor and yoga teacher across the globe, Kemi Nekvapil has lived many lives. Now as a credentialed life coach, a speaker and author of The Gift of Asking and host of The Shift Series short form podcast, she credits exploring various career paths as helping draw her own definition of success and how she spends her time.In this conversation, we speak about letting go of shoulds, how you connect the dots looking back, not giving advice, parenting, having a weekly routine, writing, and defining your own relationship to productivity. * * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, or join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

This week's mini episode asks, can a small good thing help with overwhelm?* * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, where you can also join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions to make time for the things that replenish you. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

We live in a linear world – with linear schedules, and linear expectations of our energy, or our time, our bodies. But what if we don’t move throughout our days in straight lines, but rather ebb and flow in cycles?In this conversation, author of Period Queen: Life hack your cycle and own your power all month long Lucy Peach delves into cycle amnesia, period shame, truth bombs, post-project blues, freelancing, and giving yourself permission to both finish and begin.* * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, or join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

This week's mini episode explores the different types of doing – and what gets in the way of doing our thing. * * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, where you can also join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions to make time for the things that replenish you. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

Why do we sometimes hide from our selves, and where are we hiding?In his latest book The Inner Self: The joy of discovering who we really are, social researcher Hugh Mackay explores our top twenty hiding places, including busyness, perfectionism, guilt, ambition, work and even the pursuit of happiness. In this conversation, we talk about how creativity can narrow the gap between who we pretend to be or hide, and who we really are. We talk about compassionate love as a daily discipline, writing, walking as a crucial part of the work day, being a night owl, and delve into our common hiding places such as work busyness, projection, ambition, and perfection – and how we can find our common humanity inside ourselves. * * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, where you can also join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions to make time for the things that replenish you. To stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

Ever feel like you're not doing enough, or doing too much?In the break between podcast seasons, I’ve been inspecting the space between the doing and not-doing and asking what it means to replenish.So I’m delighted to introduce Rest & Recreation. It's a weekly mini-episode that gives you a moment of R&R, but also a reminder that we aren’t just what we do or don’t do, but also what we see in the spaces in between. As well as the new mini-episodes, I’ll be speaking the usual interviews with inspiring people. This seasons is not just about their creative lives, but their entire lives – how they see the world and what brings them extra-alive. Looking forward to sharing with you very soon!* * *Support this podcast on Patreon  with a monthly pledge, or join for virtual Momentum Mornings deep work sessions. Stay tuned, please subscribe to the show wherever you hear your podcasts and sign up to the semi-regular Extraordinary Routines newsletter.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

Are you missing out if you only consider productivity in terms of your own accomplishments? Is it possible to celebrate small everyday wins instead?

Throughout this season I’ve reflected with my guests on various topics relating to our creatives lives, including process, productivity-shame, mistakes, money, vulnerability, self-compassion, uncertainty, self-sabotage, self-growth, joy, setbacks, privilege, letting go, solitude, resilience, busyness, heartbreak, patience, mental health, limitations, and learning.To wrap this first season, I wanted to share some lessons on the thing that almost prevented it from ever getting started – perfectionism. Perfectionism tells us that in order to make progress, to put what we have created into the world, it must be perfect. My intention was to wrap this first season by sharing the lessons I had accumulated specifically about the creative process and perfectionism. But as I wrote and as the days unfolded, I realised these lessons pertain to much more than our creative lives – they pertain to our entire lives.  In the same way perfectionism stalls progress in our creative lives, it can stall progress in our societies. This non-exhaustive list of parallel lessons might apply to your ongoing engagement with being anti-racist or an activist, or they might apply to your creative process, or your career, or your life, your relationships, or your environmental efforts, your scrutiny of yourself, your need for rest, your showing up in the world. Most of all, I hope they are helpful in highlighting that anything we want to do or change, begins with sidestepping perfectionism, fear, denial and shame. It begins with us taking responsibility for ourselves and our actions.Mentioned linksHow To Be Anti-Racist by Ibram X KendiAkilah Hughes piano metaphor and What A Day podcastArtist Sir John Instagram story by author, podcaster, and CEO of Hello Seven Rachel Rodgers Me and White Supremacy book by Layla F SaadAnti-racism work is supposed to be hard by Scott WoodsIbram X Kendi on Unlocking Us with Brene Brown Interview with Dom Roberts on Mood with Lauren Elizabeth“The internal work, the integrating and rearranging and and re-educating our psyches and hearts, that’s the hard work, that’s the work nobody will hold you accountable for. Do that too. Do that the most…” – Kendra AustinInterview with Luke Currie Richardson on Routines & Ruts Additional links:A Small Needful Fact poem by Ross Gay How do you measure a life? School of Visual Arts 2016 commencement address by Carrie Mae WeemsWhite Debt essay by by Eula BissRemember, no one is coming to save us essay by Roxanne Gay‘There cannot be 432 victims and no perpetrators…’ essay by Amy McQuire Always was, Always Will be with Marlee Silva podcastInclude Aboriginal culture as a subject in schools change.org petition* * *Thank you for listening to the first season of Routines & Ruts, to stay tuned for season two, please subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred listening platform.You can also stay in the loop by signing up to the free Extraordinary Routines newsletter, or follow along at @extraordinary_routines on Instagram.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore using Hindenburg. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

We often hear that emotions such as joy are cultivated within, but for designer Ingrid Fetell Lee, there is a strong possibility that it can be found in our surroundings. For over a decade, Ingrid has been devoted to answering the question: "How do tangible things create intangible joy?" both through her blog, The Aesthetics of Joy and her incredibly insightful book, Joyful: The Surprising Power Of Ordinary Things To Create Extraordinary Happiness.Ingrid's ongoing investigation explores the powerful connection between our surroundings and our emotions, and shares how we can find more joy in daily life – even in difficult times. In this conversation, we talk about the aspects of joy that are challenged now but why it’s more valuable than ever, finding ways to zoom out, the relationship between joy and resilience, planning what’s important but giving yourself permission to be flexible, why sometimes we just aren’t ready yet, surprise, and allowing for the rise and fall of joy and sorrow. Read Joyful: The Surprising Power Of Ordinary Things To Create Extraordinary HappinessWatch Where Joy Hides and How To Find It on TED TalksFollow @aestheticsofjoy on Instagram* * *For behind the scenes transcripts, show notes, inspiring quotes and more, explore A Routines & Ruts Companion, a paid weekly newsletter exploring gentler ways to connect to our routines and creativity. * * *To stay tuned, please subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred listening platform.You can also sign up to the Extraordinary Routines newsletter, or follow along at @extraordinary_routines on Instagram.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore using Hindenburg. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

Matthew Evans is a former chef and food critic, turned Tasmanian smallholder, restaurateur, food activist and star of the SBS television series Gourmet Farmer alongside his family.As the author of over a dozen books including On Eating Meat: The truth about its production and the ethics of eating it, Matthew also has a lot to share on the writing process, but what struck me in this conversation is the wonderful overlaps between life on the farm and the creative process.We talk about what happens when productive work loses its meaning, daily life on the farm and how there is always more to do, accepting your limitations, how being behind is inevitable and mostly a good sign, the beauty of boredom, and how sometimes you have to launch in to avoid getting stuck in a research phase or perfectionism. * * *For behind the scenes transcripts, show notes, inspiring quotes and more, explore A Routines & Ruts Companion, a paid weekly newsletter exploring gentler ways to connect to our routines and creativity. * * *To stay tuned, please subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred listening platform.You can also sign up to the Extraordinary Routines newsletter, or follow along at @extraordinary_routines on Instagram.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore using Hindenburg. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

There is no one way to navigate a pandemic. This routine-collage and slice of creative life during COVID-19 showcases these differences as well as unifying reflections.Bringing together over 60 difference perspectives – from dozens of listeners and  more than thirty artists and creatives I’ve previously interviewed – you can hear how other people are coping, their routines and their ruts, and maybe feel less alone in your own. * * *For behind the scenes transcripts, show notes, inspiring quotes and more, explore A Routines & Ruts Companion, a paid weekly newsletter exploring gentler ways to connect to our routines and creativity. * * *To stay tuned, please subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred listening platform.You can also sign up to the Extraordinary Routines newsletter, or follow along at @extraordinary_routines on Instagram.This podcast is produced and edited by Madeleine Dore using Hindenburg. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.* * *A very special thank you to each of you who shared your experiences and advice in the survey – you made this slice of creative life possible. Alongside your written responses, featured in this episode in order of appearance: Jeffrey Phillips – illustrator @jeff_the_peffMari Andrew – writer, artist and speaker @bymariandrewStavroula Adameitis – artist and designer @fridalasvegasBethany Simons – writer, performer and director @bethsimstagramAnu Kumar – documentary photographer @kumar_anuShannyn Higgins – photographer @shannynhigginsSarah Nargorcka – artist and cartoonist @gorkiegorkGabrielle Tozer – writer @gabrielletozerJulia Busuttil Nishimura – cook and author @juliaostroMatthew Henry – designer and photographer @oakandinkNeha Kale – writer and critic @nehakaleJudith Lucy – comedian and host of Overwhelmed & Dying podcastFrankie Ratford – designer and founder of @thedesignkidsTai Snaith – artist and host of A World of One’s Own podcast @taisnaith_booksCarly Findlay OAM – writer @carlyfindlayMark Lobo – photographer @markloboEbony Bižys – craft artist, designer and blogger @hellosandwichHonor Eastly – writer and podcaster @honor_eastlySpencer Harrison – artist @spenceroniMama Alto – performer @mama.altoFrankie Valentine – stripper, performance artist, costumier and writer @frankievalentineMelanie Stapleton – florist @ceciliafoxChaz Hutton – illustrator @instachaazFrances Haysey – writer @lovedbyfrancesTess McCabe – designer and publisher @tessmccabeAmrita Hepi – dancer and choreographer @amrita_movesJuliet Sulejmani– illustrator @thejulietreportMelanie Knight – artist, producer, and art therapist @dead_letter_clubLorelei Vashti – writer @loreleivashtiJames Lemon – ceramic artist and teacher @jameslemonSarah Firth – comic artist, author and graphic recorder @sarahthefirthPrue Aja – photographer @prue_aja_photographerPeter Drew – artist @peterdrewarts and Together Soon Enough posters

Every strength we perceive in ourselves or others perceive in us, has a flipside that feels like a weakness.Often it’s our traits that make us extraordinary that can make us feel most ordinary – and vice versa –creating an internal contradiction.Figuring out our contradictions and squaring off those sides of ourselves can take years, decades, but often when we do accept or even reveal them, that’s really when we connect with ourselves and others. Isn’t that what we’re looking for? In ours we are most fascinated by their flaws, maybe most comforted. This week’s guests certainly makes it easy to connect and adore her wonderful contractions – and puts them front row and centre in her Twitter bio. Performer, photographer, visual artist, DJ and vocal powerhouse Kira Puru describes herself as an “opinionated imposter” – in it exploring the fickleness of confidence but also the humbleness of learning to be wrong. Ahead of her latest single launch, Idiot,  in this conversation Kira Puru discusses mental health, navigating the logistics of living through a pandemic and sometimes curling up like an armadillo, giving yourself leeway to be overwhelmed, balancing the artistic and the political, frugality, mistakes and that tension between leaning towards chaos and leaning into routine. Follow @kirapuru on Twitter and Instagram * * *For behind the scenes transcripts, show notes, inspiring quotes and more, explore A Routines & Ruts Companion, a paid weekly newsletter exploring gentler ways to connect to our routines and creativity. * * *To stay tuned, please subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred listening platform.You can also sign up to the Extraordinary Routines newsletter, or follow along at @extraordinary_routines on Instagram.This podcast is produced, edited and mixed by Madeleine Dore using Hindenburg. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

Everyone makes mistakes from time to time, it’s part of being human. But what happens when you’re self employed and there’s no one to take the blame but you? Bo and Amy talk through some of the mistakes they’ve made in their professional lives and most importantly, what they learned from their mistakes.In this episode:Bo and Amy discuss the kind of mistakes, as Bo says, you only ever make once!Bo talks through the lessons she’s learned from forgetting essential equipment, ahem, like an SD card!She’s also learned the hard way how to to refine the scope of a project.Amy recounts her experiences working in toxic office environments and how she’s had to learn better boundaries around work to avoid burnout.Bo discusses some of the most financially costly mistakes she’s made in her business.Amy also shares a very embarrassing story of making a typo error on the cover page of a printed brochure! Yikes!Bo and Amy share the advice they would give to their younger selves.Amy has finally submitted her maternity leave application, hooray!Bo has a new range of limited edition prints available.Bo and Amy share their favourite follows on Instagram.Links:Wong and Megirian limited edition prints:https://www.bowong.com.au/projects/wongmegirian-groundwork/Jonathon Van Der Knapp on Instagram: @jvdkphoto@_tree_beard on InstagramKylie Lewis interviewed by Madeleine Dore on Routines & RutsKylie Lewis on Instagram: @ofkinThanks so much for listening! If you enjoyed the episode, please leave us a review or share it with your soul trader mates! Join our Soul Traders Podcast Community on Facebook (go on!) Have a question? Email us at soultraderpodcast@gmail.com or tag us on social media using the hashtag #soultraderspodcast. You can also find us on Instagram: Amy’s Instagram @amy_snoek Bo’s Instagram @b_o_w_o_n_g Music and production by Tommy Spender

Newsletter launch: A Routines & Ruts Companion will be launching 1 May and to celebrate, if you sign up now you will get 50% off ($5US/month instead of $10US/month). Sign up here for behind the scenes transcripts, show notes, inspiring quotes and more. * * *There’s something to enjoy in everything, and this week’s guest appears to have  a knack for finding it.Jen Gotch is an optimist, a visionary, the creative powerhouse behind the beloved brand ban.do and the now best-selling author of The Upside of Being Down.The memoir is a manifestation of the fact that our struggles can lead to our greatest successes, and it shares the many lessons Jen has learned in her life, from navigating a winding career-path, to tackling the stigmas associated with mental health challenges.In this conversation, we talk about mental health, solitude, the book writing process, self-doubt, how we don’t have to feel bad about inconsistency, being actively not busy, giving ourselves grace, the myth of perfectionism and how enjoyment can be found in the most unlikely places and times. Follow @jengotch on Instagram * * *To stay tuned, please subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred listening platform and leave a review on iTunes.You can also sign up to the Extraordinary Routines newsletter, or follow along at @extraordinary_routines on Instagram.This podcast is produced, edited and mixed by Madeleine Dore using Hindenburg. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

Newsletter launch: A Routines & Ruts Companion will be launching 1 May and to celebrate, if you sign up now you will get 50% off ($5US/month instead of $10US/month). Sign up here for behind the scenes transcripts, show notes, inspiring quotes and more. * * *For this week’s guest,  knowing we are enough permeates everything she does. Kylie Lewis is a coach, consultant, and Certified Dare to Lead™ and Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator, based on the research of Brené Brown.. Her interview series turned book, The Leap Stories explores how there’s no single path to success and no formulaic way to conjure the courage to take a first or next step toward a fulfilling work life. In this conversation, we talk about navigating our days imperfectly, how it’s normal to have ‘horizontal days, taking it one moment at a time, self-compassion, collective vulnerability, boundaries during this time, comparison, and aiming for enough. Follow @ofkin on Instagram * * *To stay tuned, please subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred listening platform and leave a review on iTunes.You can also sign up to the Extraordinary Routines newsletter, or follow along at @extraordinary_routines on Instagram.This podcast is produced, edited and mixed by Madeleine Dore using Hindenburg. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

In Luke Currie-Richardson's own words, he may not know what he does for a living, but he knows why he wake up in the morning.Luke is a descendant of the Kuku Yalanji and Djabugay peoples, the Munaldjali Clan of South East QLD and the Meriam people of the Eastern Torres Strait Islands. His younger years were spent as a basketball player, and from 2012 to 2018, he was a company dancer in Bangarra Dance Theatre.Recently, Luke has hosted a short Buzzfeed documentary Pay the Rent. He has also worked as a model, sessional teacher, poet, photographer and mentor. But all of this falls under the umbrella of a storyteller. For Luke, irrespective of the medium, the why remains the same: to be the best ancestor he can be for all generations. This approach proves that 'being the best' is a term of your own making, your own measure. In this conversation, Luke delves further into this idea of it’s not what you do it’s the way that you do it, navigating the loss of work during this time, his thoughts on routine being more about priority than rigid structures, the toxicity of sayings like “the show must go on” and “fake it till you make it,” the power of asking for help and taking care of your mental health, and knowing when to walk away from something. Follow @balaluke on Instagram * * *In a special episode of this very podcast, I’ll be sharing your reflections and challenges, routines or ruts in these extraordinary times. If you’d like to share your reflections, routines and ruts, start the survey here or visit  www.extraordinaryroutines.com/surveyTo stay tuned, please subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred listening platform and leave a review on iTunes.You can also sign up to the Extraordinary Routines newsletter, or follow along at @extraordinary_routines on Instagram.This podcast is produced, edited and mixed by Madeleine Dore using Hindenburg. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

Poet May Sarton once wrote, "People who have regular jobs can have no idea of just this problem of ordering a day that has no pattern imposed on it from without."This week’s guest has never had a problem with ordering her own day, in fact, the fashion icon has long resisted the structures often imposed from without. Sarah Jane Adams is a self-made antique jewellery dealer, designer and became an international model in her sixties, responsible for the #mywrinklesaremystripes social media movement celebrating the beauty in ageing. Her new book, Life In A Box: An Unorthodox Memoir illustrates the deeply personal connection that we have with our belongings and our lives. But, as you’ll soon hear, Sarah Jane Adams lives her life very much outside the box. We talk about how her daily life resembles a sliding tile puzzle toy, how there is no such thing as certainty, being a misfit, living with openness and joy, solitude, self-sabotage and pressing the reset button.* * *In a special episode of this very podcast, I’ll be sharing your reflections and challenges, routines or ruts in these extraordinary times. If you’d like to share your reflections, routines and ruts, start the survey here or visit  www.extraordinaryroutines.com/surveyTo stay tuned, please subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred listening platform and leave a review on iTunes.You can also sign up to the Extraordinary Routines newsletter, or follow along at @extraordinary_routines on Instagram.This podcast is produced, edited and mixed by Madeleine Dore using Hindenburg. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

We’re navigating a truly extraordinary time – a collective rut. While we will all have varying degrees of change and challenges, and there is no right or wrong way to navigate this time, there is always the possibility of learning. I learn so much from the people I interview, as hope you do too. But I’d also like to learn from you. In a special episode of this very podcast, I’ll be sharing your reflections and challenges, routines or ruts in these extraordinary times. If you’d like to share your reflections, routines and ruts, start the survey here.Hopefully we can share what comforts and what helps, and maybe feel a little less alone and more resilient.For this week’s guest, resilience is what has helped him navigate the highest of the highs, and lowest of the lows, many times over. Jai Long is a photographer, educator and creative entrepreneur. Most recently, he has been at the helm of three successful businesses – including Free the Bird wedding photography Heartbreak Booth, workshops for creatives navigating business, complemented by his incredible podcast, Make Your Break.But it wasn't always this way. In this conversation, Jai shares the story behind his success, confidence and drive – and the times he has been forced to press the reset button, or simply chosen to let go. We talk about being impactful rather than busy, how we are all wired differently, not putting your spark out for other people, the complicated relationship between money and the idea of designing your life, failure, fear, and so much more. * * *Share your refections, routines and ruts at www.extraordinaryroutines.com/surveyTo stay tuned, please subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred listening platform and leave a review on iTunes.You can also sign up to the Extraordinary Routines newsletter, or follow along at @extraordinary_routines on Instagram.This podcast is produced, edited and mixed by Madeleine Dore using Hindenburg. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

There’s a quote going around on from Glennon Melton’s book, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed and it reads: “You have been offered the gift of crisis. As Kathleen Norris reminds us, the Greek root of the word crisis is "to sift", as in, to shake out the excesses and leave only what's important. That's what crises do. They shake things up until we are forced to hold on to only what matters most. The rest falls away.”What’s left, as this week’s guest points out, can actually be joy in the slowness. Gold coast based artist Samuel Leighton-Dore is a satirical cartoonist, a painter, ceramic artist, filmmaker, a regular contributor for SBS Sexuality and author of the graphic novel 'How to be a big strong man'.Samuel has rare ability to be both light-hearted and joyful, and deep and reflective – proving that laughter can be balm for uncertain times. In this conversation, Samuel share his three-tiered approach to balancing various projects, the little things you can do to feel more disciplined working from home, toxic masculinity, the connection between ambition and depression, failure,   untangling your identity from creative success. * * *Share your refections, routines and ruts at www.extraordinaryroutines.com/surveyTo stay tuned, please subscribe or follow the podcast on your preferred listening platform and leave a review on iTunes.You can also sign up to the Extraordinary Routines newsletter, or follow along at @extraordinary_routines on Instagram.This podcast is produced, edited and mixed by Madeleine Dore using Hindenburg. Special thanks to Nelson Dore for the theme music and Ellen Porteus for the cover art.

In today's Sunday Soother Advicecast, Catherine has her first-ever interview guest! Madeleine Dore, writer, creative, and force behind the popular Extraordinary Routines joins Catherine for a conversation about creativity, perfectionism, vulnerability, habits, journaling, the "shadow artist," and lots more.The Sunday Soother Advicecast is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that helps readers access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. Submit your questions anonymously at this link; or email your question to Catherine here.Resources mentioned in this episode:Link to review the Sunday Soother on iTunesCatherine's Morning Pages group challengeThe Extraordinary Routines siteMadeleine's piece, "Everything I learned from (finally) completing The Artist's Way"Extraordinary Routines on InstagramMadeleine's websiteThe Artist's WayMore on Morning PagesGretchen Rubin's habit-forming quiz

This week! We’re going through our open tabs and will be discussing sex toy lawsuits, and how not to suck at colour! Remember! We are now an ENHANCED podcast. That's right - If you listen to our podcast in Overcast or Pocket Casts, or Castro, you can get super special images, links, and chapter breaks in your player while you listen. Featured links from our discussion - Want to get these in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for our text-only tinyletter at tinyletter.com/jackywinter Jeremy The 4 ‘Attachment Styles,’ and How They Sabotage Your Work-Life Balance https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/smarter-living/attachment-styles-work-life-balance.html Lara I was owed about $5,000 from late-paying publications. I tried to hold them all accountable. Here’s what happened. http://www.wudanyan.com/late-fee?source=post_page--------------------------- Who Pays Photographers? https://whopaysphotogs.tumblr.com/ Who Pays Writers? http://whopayswriters.com/#/results Use It Or Lose It https://useit.orlose.it/ Freelance Isn't Free Act https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/about/freelance-isnt-free-act.page Corvid community https://www.corv.id/community The 25 Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/t-magazine/most-important-contemporary-art.html 10 Ways To Kill An Intern https://adage.com/article/opinion/10-ways-kill-intern/2183506 How to process climate news (and stay grounded). https://medium.com/@maxstjohn/how-to-process-climate-news-and-stay-grounded-748474f1f46a Netflix Hangouts https://netflixhangouts.com/ Lessons on being the worst freelancer https://extraordinaryroutines.com/musings/worst-freelancer JWGYTB Episode 044 - Extraordinary Web Browsing (with Madeleine Dore) https://jackywinter.givesyouthe.biz/episodes/539c585c Trend List https://www.trendlist.org/ If you like the show or these links or think we sound like nice people, please go and leave us a rating or review on iTunes. It helps other people find the show and boosts our downloads which in turn lets us know that what we're doing is worth doing more of! To subscribe, view show notes or previous episodes head on over to our podcast page at http://jackywinter.givesyouthe.biz/ Special thanks to Jacky Winter (the band, with much better shirts than us) for the music. Listen to them over at Soundcloud. Everything else Jacky Winter (us) can be found at http://www.jackywinter.com/

Rosella Postorino's At the Wolf's Table, inspired by Hitler's food tasters, Peggy Frew's novel about a lost girl called Islands, and writers' routines with Madeleine Dore and Marieke Hardy.

Madeleine Dore is the writer, interviewer and creative force behind Extraordinary Routines, the brilliant interview project that investigates the intersection between creativity and imperfection - featuring the lives, challenges and triumphs of our favourite creatives.This episode is a bonus companion to our interview on the podcast about creating extraordinary routines - and is based on Madeleine's month-long experiment on morning routines to see how they could help her win the day.She experiments with famous morning routines - from working from bed, to 'eating a frog' - to see how they can improve her morning, and her entire day. Try them for yourself and let us know how you fare!You can also download the Morning Routine's Workbook where this experiment is shared in detail over at Extraordinary Routines.Enjoy!

Madeleine Dore is the writer, interviewer and routine explorer behind Extraordinary Routines, the brilliant interview project that investigates the intersection between creativity and imperfection - featuring the lives, challenges and triumphs of our favourite creatives.In this episode we explore:how our habits create our liveshow we can move through fear and blockswhy we should focus on our strengths rather than our weaknessand how routines can help us win the dayMadeleine herself is a creative force, growing Extraordinary Routines while also launching the event series Side Project Sessions for a “peer-pressured productivity session”. Madeleine has a wealth of knowledge about routines, habit setting, habit tracking and bullet journalling, and has written for ABC Life, Arts Hub, The Design Files, Kill Your Darlings and countless others.I hope this conversation provides some inspiration for translating your goals into a reality, embracing your imperfections and your humanness, and for moving through fear to create an extraordinary daily routine.

This week we welcome Madeleine Dore to discuss our open tabs. Madeleine is a freelance writer and founder of Extraordinary Routines, a project featuring interviews, life-experiments, and articles that explore the intersection between creativity and imperfection. (Long-time listeners will remember when we talked about Madeleine’s month-long experiment of having absolutely no social life) She’s written for BBC, 99u, Sunday Life, Kinfolk, and about a million more, and just recently she founded the free event series Side Project Sessions to help create a space for people to work on their passion projects. Remember! We are now an ENHANCED podcast. That's right - If you listen to our podcast in Overcast or Pocket Casts, or Castro, you can get super special images, links, and chapter breaks in your player while you listen. Featured links from our discussion - Want to get these in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for our text-only tinyletter at tinyletter.com/jackywinter Jeremy: Talking Design with Stephen Crafti Podcast Bianca: Quickstarter by Kickstarter / Lessons from being the worst freelancer / Side Project Sessions Madeleine: Introvert or Extrovert - Here’s how to boost your productivity / Madeleines Top Ten Email Newsletters / Swiss Miss Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down: Ask Polly If you like the show or these links or think we sound like nice people, please go and leave us a rating or review on iTunes. It helps other people find the show and boosts our downloads which in turn lets us know that what we're doing is worth doing more of! Jacky Winter Gives You The Business is produced by Areej Nur To subscribe, view show notes or previous episodes head on over to our podcast page at http://jackywinter.givesyouthe.biz/ Special thanks to Jacky Winter (the band, with much better shirts than us) for the music. Listen to them over at Soundcloud. Everything else Jacky Winter (us) can be found at http://www.jackywinter.com/

This special edition was recorded live at Donkey Wheel House in Melbourne on Tuesday 15 August 2017, in front of a live audience of 50 women as part of the women in business week of the Victorian Small Business Festival. Based on my book ‘The Leap Stories’, this event featured a panel of women who had taken the leap in their careers to start their own businesses who were keen to share their experiences and insights. MCed by Tess McCabe, publisher & founder of Creative Minds Publishing and hosted by Kylie Lewis, founder, Of Kin on the panel were Emma Kate Codrington of Emma Kate Co., Kate Vandermeer of The Super Cool and Madeleine Dore of Extraordinary Routines. This episode is great for anyone considering starting their own business, side gig or would like to be a bit braver in their working life. We give an insiders guide on what you need to consider, how to get yourself organised and put together the building blocks for moving forward. This is the full recording of the whole evening, and you may like to jump ahead. Around the 8 minute mark is the introduction of our guest speakers. Around the 11 minute mark is the start of the panel discussion. And around the 65 minute mark is the start of the audience Q & A. I hope you enjoy this special episode, and if you’d like to purchase your own copy of The Leap Stories book, please visit ofkin.com/leap

In our inaugural episode, guest host Madeleine Dore of Extraordinary Routines chats to illustrator Gorkie (Sarah Nagorcka) and writer and activist Jax Jacki Brown about their creative practices, as well as the challenges of balancing their creative careers. Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and founder of the interview project Extraordinary Routines. Her interviews, life-experiments, and articles regularly explore creativity, everyday life and the imperfection in between and have appeared in Sunday Life, 99u, Womankind, BBC, and more. Jax Jacki Brown is a disability and LGBTIQ rights activist, writer, public speaker and disability sexuality educator. Jax was named one of the 25 LGBTI people to watch in 2015, in 2016 she made the Lesbians On The Loose (LOTL) Power List as an Agent of Change and in 2017 was appointed to the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women's Equality. Through her work, Jax provides a powerful insight into the reasons why society needs to change, rather than people with disabilities. Sarah Nagorcka AKA Gorkie is a writer and cartoonist based in Melbourne. Recently shortlisted for the 2016 Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize, her illustrations appear regularly in Lateral Magazine and occasionally pop up on Reddit, where she receives criticism for drawing like a four year old.