Ready Set Coach Podcast

Finding Productivity as a Coach with Guest Emily Guerra of The Productivity Flow

• Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith • Season 2 • Episode 79

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This week’s episode features guest Emily Guerra, Founder of The Productivity Flow and personal productivity life coach. Emily discusses how she found the Ready Set Coach Community through the podcast and connecting with Em and Lex. While Lex is abroad across the ocean, both Emily’s discuss how Emily G. founded The Productivity Flow and what it means to find productivity as a coach. She breaks down some of her coaching tips and tricks for being productive in the day while working as your own boss and working on your coaching business. She talks about different things she does daily to keep herself working productively throughout the day. 


Here’s what you’ll learn: 

  • Emily G.’s origin story in how she got connected with Em and Lex
  • How being a community leader has been fulfilling for Emily
  • The benefit of having a community around you as a coach working for yourself
  • How Emily navigates being a solo entrepreneur and the only employee of her own company and the freedom and flexibility
  • Tools and tips for productivity and staying on task as a coach working for yourself
  • Tips on visualizing yourself being productive and working productively throughout the day
  • Ideas on how to outline your tasks for the next workday
  • Different software and planners she uses to outline work days and using time blocks to keep tasks going throughout the day
  • And more!



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Emily Merrell  

Hi Em. Hey Em guys been back to Lex is on vacation so I found another Em


Emily Guerra  

actually this would have worked better had Lexei replaced me with you. I think a fair enough since the name then wouldn't have been so confusing but I think having two Emily's is actually really fun. Oh 1,000% I used to live with an Emily and when we were looking for apartments, every realtor was like, You're Emily too. And I was like, I know it's wild. The 80s were a crazy time. so funny.


Emily Merrell  

But wait, fun fact, right before this call. I was just talking to my friend lax who's a guy. And he was like, Emily, you must have Lex all over your calendar. And I was like, actually, yeah, I do typically. So


Emily Guerra  

funny.


Emily Merrell  

Well, Emily, I'm so excited to have you on the ReadySet. Coach podcast. I always am just a big fan of hearing, like how you came into our world and telling a little bit of an origin story. So can you tell us how you came into our world and who you are. And then guys, we're going to dive into some really cool stuff today. But wait for the transition?


Emily Guerra  

Well, firstly, thank you so much for having me on the podcast, I actually feel like it's a very full circle moment for me because I found Ready Set coach community through the podcast. So now being a guest on the podcast and actually being on the podcast. I think it's so fun. And I'm so excited to be here. But I when I first started coaching, I was just looking for coaching content, like how do you coach? How do what are other coaches doing? How are they feeling like Am I alone in this am I not. And so I really just kind of searched coach on podcasts and actually found you guys really easily. And I immediately just connected with the way that you guys talked about coaching and also talked about other like things that didn't necessarily relate to coaching or that you think related to coaching, but totally do. And so that's how I ended up just learning about the ReadySet coach community. And then when you guys started sharing the community more and more in the podcast, I realized I just had to join that it was such a missed opportunity if I didn't. So I ended up joining and officially meeting you guys. And the rest is history.


Emily Merrell  

And I first off I love that I love that it was as simple as you were searching for coaching content, you search coat and coach into podcast, let us lead you to us, you got to know us and then join us and see us pretty much weekly through our events that we do at the ReadySet coach community. But also Emily is such a frickin badass, she is a like one of the if you're watching on YouTube, you can get a glimpse of her personality right now. She's waving to y'all. But she's just such a ball of sunshine and just such a light and one of those people that when she's at our events, I'm like, life is good. So we invited her to be a community leader. And it's a very small, limited position, there's only a few of them out there. And Emily has definitely embodied everything that we wanted to amplify within our community in terms of connection in terms of making people feel seen and heard, and you're just crushing it. So we're so grateful to have you here I


Emily Guerra  

am. So I feel like I'm blushing right now. My face just got really red and shiny, because I am just so grateful for everything that you just shared. And being a community leader has been so fulfilling. And so fun. I was really searching for a community, honestly, you know, working from home working for yourself. And I'm also only 26, I immediately started working for myself straight out of college. So I never really joined a corporate world or had co workers to work alongside with. So joining the ReadySet coach community and being able to actually asked to engage with people and asked to share more and be more on top of just building those relationships. It was the opportunity I was actually looking for and manifesting for so when it happened, I felt so aligned. And so excited to just get the opportunity to talk with other people like me and to share struggles and to share solutions and just to also share silly stories because we need


Emily Merrell  

that too. We need silliness in it. And I'm actually curious having the fact that you started working for yourself pretty much right out of college. Do you find that you are more brazen? I guess you don't you don't know the difference but like because no one ever told you not to do something ain't like you were never told us to wait your turn or two, you'll get that promotion? If you're a good girl and you, you know, put in the hours. Do you feel like those limitations you've seen from your friends? This might be a leading question you don't embrace or use, have you still battle your own limitations with pursuing further?


Emily Guerra  

No, I think that's a great question. And I was actually just kind of reflecting with my therapist yesterday about this. Because as my own boss, I feel like I can be the toughest boss out there, you know, I'm the one who sets all of the rules. And I'm also the one with all the self limiting beliefs and the ideas about what it means to get enough done. And so sometimes I find myself comparing myself to like, bigger companies and look at what they're getting done and look at what their employees are able to do. And then I have to take a step back and remember, yeah, because we have a bunch of people, I'm just me, like, I cannot compare. So at first, there was definitely a lot of ooh, I wish I could like, get as much done as they can, like, it looks like they have so much support with their co workers and all that. But then I also realized, oh, you know what, I get to take off time, whenever I want, I get to start work whenever I want. I decide when my meetings are, and just having that freedom. And that flexibility, I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. But I also definitely need to keep my self limiting beliefs and my limitations that I set up for myself anything self sabotaging, or being in my own way, I definitely have to catch myself a lot faster and a lot, a lot more often than I feel like a regular employee does, because they already have those checks and balances kind of in place. Whereas I'm really my only checking back. Sorry about that. Whereas I'm really my only check and balance. So in that way, it's been kind of both back and forth. Like it depends on the day, honestly.


Emily Merrell  

And I think that's a good point. You know, when you do have a manager, or you have a team that you collaborate with, you have people who are saying, like, Great job, Emily, or Wow, good work, or, Hey, next time, don't mess up in this direction. So you have that check and balance and in you need to establish that when you are working for yourself. I have however, and I've admired this I've worked with a lot of I've befriended and worked with a lot of entrepreneurs who have started things straight out of college. And I've always admired the fact that I feel like they didn't get their light dimmed. And I'm not saying this, that every corporate experience had this, but there was this aspect of like bright eyed and bushy tailed out of college, and then you're gone into a place that like, crushes dreams and hopes and ambitions. And it's harder for them to then find themselves after the fact. And this is not for everyone. It's not a blanket statement. There's people who definitely thrive in corporate. But I've also met people who have a girlfriend, I remember co working with her and she was several years younger. She was like, hey, of course I make $30,000 a month. And I was like, Oh, that's a lot of like that, that time in my life. I was like, that's a lot of money to be making a month. And she's like, of course I charge $10,000 per client, like, of course, you know, and for our I got me too. And it kind of gave me the permission slip. Going back to what you said about like being your own checks and balances, that you need to be your own boss. And give yourself those checks and balances and then mission for a raise without permission for to think over the top or totally go for that like big, hairy, audacious, audacious goal. Yeah, totally.


Emily Guerra  

And you know what you were saying about how some people can just be working and feel very dimmed. I feel like my boyfriend actually went through an experience like that, where he went to a company and originally loved it, but then it ended up feeling very toxic, and like, he could never do enough for that company. And then he ended up getting laid off. And then he moved to another company didn't love it never loved the culture. And also just he was in sales. So he never felt like he was hitting his metrics enough. And then he was laid off again. And this all happened within a year. And he decided to take six months and not work and focus on his mental health and really just find himself and figure out what it was that he wanted to do. And he took the time to really he started therapy. He started working out a lot more and he started eating a lot healthier. He really just took control of his life personal development and his life. And now he's in a position in a company. He works from home and he loves it. He's thriving, he's feeling so much better. So sometimes I feel like when we have our light dimmed We just need to take a moment and bring ourselves back up. And we just felt like, acknowledge that it's okay, that the light dimmed, we're human. It's never going to be bright all of the time. So how can we brighten it up ourselves? I'm really proud of him. That's


Emily Merrell  

Yes, incredible. I wish every 20 something year old, but also do that. It should be like a life prerequisite. So I like it, turn your lights off before you turn the lights back on exactly. See how bright they can go. And speaking of turning lights off, and it sounds like he was really productive during his time off. And he got a lot of stuff done, and he focused a ton on himself. You are the productivity expert. And I would love to hear more. First off, how did you land on productivity? And second, let's talk like tangible productivity tips for coaches. Firstly,


Emily Guerra  

that segway was so impressive.


Emily Merrell  

I loved it. It was good.


Emily Guerra  

And yeah, so having worked for myself only and having only ever worked from home, it's just all I've done. It's kind of how I function. I also grew up with ADHD, but not knowing that I had ADHD, I actually was not diagnosed until after I graduated college. Wow. So I felt like I had to create systems and organize and understand how I can function more productively without medication without assistance. And productivity really did become my medication when I was younger. Like, for instance, I have been using the same closet organizing system since I was like nine years old. Because I just I color code, everything. And I have, it's all like winter stuff is here, summer stuff is here, fall stuff is here, if I mix it up, then I have to organize it by length. It's just like the way that I do things. And it's just how I process it. And I learned that about myself very young. And I think it was because I was started going to therapy really young too. So that helps so much. And then when I joined the working world, and I started freelancing out social media services for entrepreneurs and different companies, I realized that nobody practiced work life balance, and everybody was on the go all of the time. And I wondered to myself, like, Is this really okay, is this how we should be working? Because to me, I just started working and I already feel burned out? How do people do this their whole lives? There's no way I'm able to do that. And so I've been working on reframing what being productive even means. So that way, I actually feel empowered to take the steps to act productively and empowered to shift into a mindset to act productively. So I really fell into productivity very naturally, as just it sort of became a passion. And uniting it with personal development also became a passion. And that's where the productivity flow came from.


Emily Merrell  

That's incredible that you knew and you were able to take control of your ADHD through productivity and organization at a young age. And also gay young therapy. Another prerequisite we should all have agreed, agreed. Are you from LA originally,


Emily Guerra  

I am born and raised.


Emily Merrell  

Okay, because I think like LA, LA, New York, like that's more embodied when you meet people from other places, and they're like, entropy as a child. Wow. Why would I do that? Yeah, totally. I see. I see why you say that. But I Okay. So I love that. So it started from essentially social media and like you were servicing social media clients. And now you have this whole business focused on productivity. And I also think that you did a great clarification of work life balance, that by being productive is not synonymous with hustling. By being active. It doesn't mean that you are that you were working all the time. Yes.


Emily Guerra  

And no, that's how our culture really views it. You know, like, we got the side hustle, the grind, I'll sleep when I'm dead. People brag about being busy, it's just so ingrained that productivity means go Go, go, go go. You know, I actually have a fun question for you. What do you think the definition of productivity is?


Emily Merrell  

I'm getting shit done. Basically.


Emily Guerra  

Yeah, it literally according to Britannica, all productivity is is getting a lot done. That's it. And it's like, well, can we do a lot of the wrong stuff? Yes. And why do we have to do a lot to be productive?


Emily Merrell  

And exactly. And I think that's, I think a lot we do a lot of busy work that we Yes, we make excuses for and we think is productive. But I do, I did read this or I feel like this was like passed on. And maybe you know this, like the one task if you make your bed every single day. That's like, at least you feel productive. You got something, you accomplished one thing. So I think it's a little like micro checklists in our brain of accomplishments and reward systems. So, okay, let's talk about productivity for coaches. Can we start off with systems like what are your favorite go to tools that you like to tools and systems You like jazz, for sure. So


Emily Guerra  

one of my favorite tools is notion, I think I use it a lot with my virtual assistant. That's how we keep track of everything that he's working on, how we communicate, all of my content calendars are on there, my blog, content calendars are on there. Really, everything is on there, from my media book to notes for the future. So I love notion because you can organize it in whatever way you want to, you can automate things such as tasks, so that way, they automatically show up on to your calendar, and you don't have to worry about adding them to your calendar, they're just there, which is so great when you feel a little overwhelmed, or when you're wearing a lot of different hats. So I really love notion for sure. And then


Emily Merrell  

go for it. I was gonna say I was like, I need to dive into it more. I've gone off Trello, right, I'll know. But probably I've used notion over the years on an attendant. So I think I need to give a motion to a notion a little bit more.


Emily Guerra  

I love it. Well, if you ever want to toss it out with me, yeah, we went through it. I love that. And another tool that I think is so effective. And just organizing the ADHD brain that I have is Google Tasks. I love it because I use it as a widget on my phone. And so if I am just out and about, let's say I'm walking my dog, for instance, and I get a great idea. Because walks are honestly such a great brainstorming session. That's what happens to me all the time. And I want to be able to note my idea down without losing it, but also stay present in my walk. And so I'll just quickly grab my phone, open that widget app on my phone, add the task, add a date that I want the task to be done by and it's automatically added to my Google calendar. So that's the best thing for me just that simple system. It's literally one tool I use as a system. And that's what I love about systems making it so easy to do that it's almost like hard not to do, you know,


Emily Merrell  

totally. I think that's great with the task. I'm definitely frustrated with notes at this moment in time. You


Emily Guerra  

and I can get so cluttered to so


Emily Merrell  

hard to find so hard to get through. And like I wrote a good idea down at one day. Now, where is it?


Emily Guerra  

Do you know what I do with my notes is I'll use it as like a brainstorming area, I guess. And so I will category categorize my different notes and have different themes on it. And then I'll pin them so that way they stay on top on the top. So any notes that I reuse over and over again, I always have pinned on the top so I could just easily access them. Way.


Emily Merrell  

That's awesome. That's a really good idea to be made out. Yeah,


Emily Guerra  

another great hack is adding hashtags, notes, categorizes everything by hashtags, they actually will show up yellow and kind of glow. And it'll start organizing your notes for you through the hashtags. That's


Emily Merrell  

genius, and so unexpected to have hashtags there. I was looking for my phone, I was like, where did I put my phone, I wanted to show you my phone. And this actually is like a terrible time to show you my phone because it doesn't look like what I want it to. But back to the coloring and organization. I organize all my phone by colors. I love that. There's clearly some apps guys, you're seeing it on YouTube, that I need to put into their homes. But I've loved to your point earlier about colors and organizing by themes or hashtags. I think our brains are where you have so many things happening. So if there's any sort of system in ways that we can think about things, I think it's easier and so I found at least by color, like what colors Facebook, blue, blue is in the blue folder like there we go the or then me being like, Oh, is this in social media or is this in business? So


Emily Guerra  

that's how I organize I'm pulling up my phone to show you two so that's how I organize my phone I'll do like social media finding and business and have like traveling food shopping, there's a lot in shopping. So like, we totally do the same thing just in a different way, which is like, just goes to show that there's so many different ways to go about simply organizing it. The key is making it work in the way that your brain works. So if you process colors faster than you process, like a category, then there you go. That's the what you should do. Simply as that.


Emily Merrell  

Yeah, I was gonna say, like, just building on that, what kind of advice do you have for people to to give themselves an audit? So they do understand how they process things?


Emily Guerra  

Oh, that's a great question. So firstly, it's really just about being present, and noticing and having the intention to be okay, I'm going to notice how I react to things today. And if my reaction is I'm feeling challenged, I'm feeling dreadful. I want to procrastinate, I'm not enjoying it, I'm not having fun anymore. Any really just negative emotion that holds you back from being your best self. Those are the moments when you kind of got to pay extra attention, because then you can typically pinpoint what led you to feeling that way. And when you can look backwards and backtrack, it's so much easier than to edit moving forward, because you know exactly where the hiccups lie. And where you can make small 1% adjustments. And the key here is making just 1% adjustments, not making crazy big adjustments, not trying to switch your entire routine up or your entire system up. What's the one thing that you can just slightly adjust and see how you react to that, and then take it step by step. That's what I always a process I always go through with my clients. And of course, the process is different for everybody. And it takes a different amount of time for everybody to so don't compare, oh,


Emily Merrell  

don't compare is a really good one. What's an example of something that you help your clients with? Like? What are the challenges that they come to you?


Emily Guerra  

For one of the Yeah, one of the big ones is personal accountability. So just maintaining accountability throughout your day for the tasks that and I really coach entrepreneurs. So as an entrepreneur, we don't have we are the boss, right. And so like we kind of touched on earlier, we really have to be accountable to ourselves, there's no one else there to tell us when to do what. And so boosting that accountability and also boosting motivation, boosting an understanding of your benefits that you get, and boosting and awareness of all the options that you have. You don't necessarily have to do everything you can delegate, you can, you know, take it in phases, start with one thing and then move into the next. So it's really about breaking down your mindset, understanding why you're struggling with accountability, and then slipping in those mindset shifts and tools that help you boost it 1% At a time every single day.


Emily Merrell  

I am such a big fan of 1% more each day. I think my motto. Oh, it's a great motto too. And it's a small motto is a small but mighty motto. But you've never been bitten by a mosquito before. And they're small, but they are mighty. So true. Right? Oh, and so annoying too. So then thinking about productivity, like what are the things that you that that you would stand on a milk carton and with a megaphone and yell into the bests until people do it? Oh, that's a


Emily Guerra  

really good one. So something that people don't naturally think of when they think of productivity is meditation. But I think it's actually a huge productivity booster. Because when you can clear your headspace and clear out any of that internal clutter that you have, you work so much more effectively. And you also understand your priorities a lot more, you give yourself a little bit more grace when you run into hurdles, because that happens it's bound to happen. You address interruptions and distractions a lot more you act like the person you know you can be essentially when you allow yourself to have a clear head and to take a moment and do some breath work and calm down your mind a little bit because then you can just be so much more effective. So meditation is definitely whether it's meditation, breath work, like belly breathing or doing a body scan it really just any form of tapping into your mind and body spirit and connecting the two is so so key.


Emily Merrell  

I am 100% on board for that I find that whenever I'm feeling unproductive quote unquote, staring at my computer, hitting the refresh button over and over and over We're again, not sure where to start, it's usually closing my laptop laying down and like doing all those things that you just said, that gives me that reset. And that, that refocus of where to put my energy. I am curious for you in terms of, you know, I've got like 1000 tabs open right now. We've got email, you got zoom, you've got text messages. Do you have any best productivity hacks in terms of actually focusing and getting the task at hand? Oh,


Emily Guerra  

yes, especially with tabs. So, you know, it's so common to have like, 50, tabs open and one window. And then you look at your window, and you're like, where's that one thing that I need right now, this very, I can't find it. And then you know, a day later, you find it, and you're like, Oh, my God, there it is, of course. So we want to just like eliminate that frustration, right. And we just want to basically organize your tabs a little bit more, it sounds so simple in theory, but practicing it is where the challenge comes. So what I personally love to do is I look at each window as like a batch of tasks that are related to each other. So let's say I'm just looking at my window. Right now I have, I'm doing a bunch of event research for future events. So I have like four or five tabs open, all related to that. But if I look at a different window, it's all about social media. So it's all my social media handles are open canvas, open graphic design, chat, GPT, anything that's related to my tasks at hand for social media is organized in that one window. So then I at least can go by window instead of going by tabs. And when you can look at a window and just say, okay, everything I'm looking at here is only related to my one task at hand, you just don't get distractions in your peripheral about other tasks, because you don't have those tabs, pulling your focus away. So the way I love to define focus, and I think this really plays in hand with everything I just said, is not giving your power away to distractions. That's really what it is. So how can you just eliminate those distractions ahead of time and prepare for them? And


Emily Merrell  

I love the tab idea or the window idea of basically curating it like a Pinterest board with all the things.


Emily Guerra  

That's a great way of saying it, I'm gonna write that's


Emily Merrell  

just what it is. How about your phone? Do you use your phone at all to keep you productive, or to keep you on task? So


Emily Guerra  

actually, I am proud to say that my phone is hardly ever used. I am really, I only have like two and a half hours of screen time a day, according to the awful like, you know how it'll show you that notice? Yeah, three weeks, I'm like, Yes, sadly, try to get it down. I'm like, oh, okay, so I was two and a half. Let's see if I can do 220 this week. And like, just always try to bring it down. I'm someone who really just uses my computer as my work zone and my phone as my personal zone. And I really try to separate them. And for me, that just helps with my work life balance, it helps me not feel pressured, on the weekends to look at anything related to work, it helps me actually put work away when I want to put work away. So that's something that most people don't do. But it's been so beneficial in decreasing any anxiety and decreasing those Sunday scaries. And just helping me feel more confident and aligned with when I do actually do my work. Because I know that this is my work time. And later on is my personal time, I want it to stay my personal time. So I'm gonna get as much done as I can, here and now and leave my phone to be a personal personal,


Emily Merrell  

does that mean that your email, do not do your work email at all on your phone, or I


Emily Guerra  

have it on my phone, I



do not allow notifications. Phenomenal. Big fan. Big fan of that.


Emily Merrell  

I found that my when I had my email at the bottom right of my phone, I would just be kind of refreshing and refreshing and refreshing. And I was like my thumb didn't know what to do. So I had to move it and hide it into a folder like find a bunch of things. That is so smart. Yeah, yeah, that was


Emily Guerra  

right way to like just, I think using folders as an organization tool. And also just using the different pages too. So like let's say you don't want to be scrolling on social media all of the time, then put it into a folder, put it on the last page and make it hard to access. So that way it's actually a little bit of a hassle to go and scroll and get to it. And anytime it's a little bit more of a hassle, we're less likely to do it. So that's rent


Emily Merrell  

1,000% and make it hard for yourself to get to the reward of whatever it is that you're doing. You have to be really intentionally wanting to to pull down that button and hit scroll. Exactly. I'm with it. Certainly You don't use your phone at all for timers?


Emily Guerra  

No, I don't I actually use my cube timers. Oh, yeah. So I have these two sets of cue timers. And you can kind of hear that. There's a sound in there. Yeah, so I'll leave it. Let's see, I'll do the one minute timer so that I hear what it sounds like when it pops off. But I'll just flip it over. And it has like a little countdown right here. So I can see how much time is left. And when it goes off, it just goes. That's amazing. Yeah, so what I love about these two is that this set right here is 60 minutes, 30 minutes, 20 minutes, and 15. Sorry, I can honestly get annoying, okay, here and I'm like, yeah, and then this one's one minute, three minutes, five minutes, 10 minutes. So I can set my 60 timer on and have an hour block. But let's say I want to do a couple of different tasks within that block, I'll just then set my 10 minute timer a couple of times, and go through it six times, so that I can get six shorter tasks done in one hour and kind of track myself in time myself that way. So a big productivity thing that I love to say is the less screens the butter, it simplifies things. And it makes just, it eliminates distractions. So that's why I personally use my cube timers, because I don't want to have to worry about opening a tub or getting distracted from a notification on my phone and presenting those things. I eliminate that and just keep it on my desk, in my view.


Emily Merrell  

Wow. I love that I haven't heard of the cube timers before definitely will check those ones out. That's a gift to give people to oh


Emily Guerra  

my gosh, I gave it I gave it to my virtual assistant. Which is such like a productivity coach, you get like some cube timers. Day I like Happy birthday. I gave him other stuff too. It wasn't just the cute timers. I swear it was fun and cute and nice fat. Yeah, cheap timers were involved. That's


Emily Merrell  

that's really, really thoughtful. I like that. And then I'm going to ask you one last question, because I couldn't make this a 75 minute episode. Any other Are there any other tools, tips, things hacks that you need to get out of you before we end this podcast.


Emily Guerra  

So many, literally. But one of the biggest ones that I think is so incredible, and we really didn't touch on it too much. But I just want to throw it out there is visualizing yourself actually being productive. So something I do in the morning is I will after I meditate, I will sit down. I'm gonna as I meditate. So I'll stay seated. And keep my eyes closed and just visualize myself working productively throughout the day. I always outline my tasks the night before, so I know what's upcoming the next day so that way I can do that visualization. And I can immediately just sit on my desk and picture myself getting everything that I want done. And when you visualize, you basically are telling your brain, hey, this is what I want to happen. Figure out how to make it happen. And your brain works in the background and kind of helps you your subconscious puts together all these stories to help you and guide you achieve the visualization. So that's a huge, an easy tip that is so underutilized, but so incredibly profound.


Emily Merrell  

I love a good visualization. And I think molestation Yeah, it can it can game change everything. And it feels like you've walked the task before. So it's not as overwhelming or as dreadful as you made it out to be if you hadn't I. And I also wanted to acknowledge the fact that you outline your tasks the night before. Do you outline them in motion? Or do you outline them in on paper?


Emily Guerra  

So I outlined them on paper, I just function with paper, better notion I use as a calendar, so more bird's eye view, right? And then I actually have a planner on my website. So it's this one right here. And I just outlined my day. And I outlined my calendar. It's a 15 minute time blocked calendar. So I can literally outline by 15 minutes if I wanted to. And then I'll just number my tasks so that way I know exactly what order I want to go in. And I essentially have an action plan for my day takes me 10 minutes or less, but it is so helpful in the morning. So I don't I'm not feeling like oh my god, what am I going to do today? How am I going to get it all done? Because I used to feel that way so much. So I created this little system for myself that way to eliminate that feeling.


Emily Merrell  

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Brilliant. Well, we will definitely link to that in today's shows, show notes. Emily, you're amazing. I am so excited to get more productive and probably just continue like pinging you on productivity tips. Guys, if you are not yet in our community, this is just a one of the amazing examples of people that are here. but you can learn from that you can book calls with that you can hire that you can ask silly questions of and she will ask she will respond with a very thoughtful answer. So, Emily, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for joining today's episode of The Ready, set. Beautiful singing I will