Mindful Productivity is intention and awareness of your current mental state, energy capacity, and external demands that help you better manage how you take action in the present moment to get things done sustainably. Sarah Steckler is here to help you create a more mindful and productive life and business. The Mindful Productivity Podcast is your go-to resource to learn and incorporate practical applications of mindfulness and productivity into your daily routine. Design a fulfilling life & ...
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Sup guys! I invade your brain 2x a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays, to give you the latest, greatest, and most actionable value that you can implement into your life TODAY. The main focus is entrepreneurship, wellness, and personal development. Sometimes there are jokes. Sometimes they're good (mostly not). Essentially, this is a renaissance podcast. And it rocks.
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Simple Tweaks to Improve Your Weeks
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Today I've got 6 simple ideas you can use to improve your weeks and bring back daily joy to your life. We often overcomplicate things when really, noticing the little things can bring us back to feeling excited about our lives all over again. Send us a text Find more resources over at SarahSteckler.com Come say hi on Instagram @sarahsteckler…
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Navigating an Endless Stress Cycle
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The state of the world is causing mass chronic stress in all of us. How do we still exist, do things, find joy, and continue on? In this episode I'm sharing the patterns I've been noticing in my own stress cycles and responses, what we can do, decisions we can make, and the reminders you need to remember that we are not done yet. There is still hop…
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7 Shifts I've made that have changed my daily life
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Today I'm sharing 7 things I've done recently that have influenced my mindset, joy, and overall life outlook. I hope they inspire you, too! Send us a text Find more resources over at SarahSteckler.com Come say hi on Instagram @sarahstecklerDoor Sarah Steckler
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How I Established My Current Evening Routine
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It’s a new year I’ve decided that I need a lot more structure in my life. Today we’ll be going over what’s working for me with my evening routine, how I decided the structure of it all, and things I ask myself each night to make it work, including: Why I decided I needed an evening routine Questions I asked myself to decide where to start Defining …
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Setting Your Goals for the Year Ahead
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How do you choose your goals for the year ahead? In this episode we'll explore: Considering where your goals are coming from 3 things you need to do before you commit to a goal Goals you should set first 3 main types of goals The Get-Out-of-Goal-Free card Your Goal SOB Story Grab the Energy Driver Habit Tracker --> Take a look at the Simple Standar…
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Navigating WTF Weeks & My No Panic Policy
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What are the best ways to navigate weeks in your life and biz when it feels like EVERYTHING is hitting the fan all at once?! Well I've got some tips for you. In today's episode we'll be covering 5 areas of frustration and best practices for handling them. These include: Where to aim your fan when shit gets frustrating Navigating Tech Issues & my NO…
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What to ask yourself before enrolling in an online program + my favorite business investment to date
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Hello friends! Today I'm here to talk about all the important questions to ask yourself when it comes to making an investment in a bigger online course or program. You can also read this as a blog post over on the blog here. If you want to learn more about my favorite business program ever, you can learn more about WAIM Unlimited here and the TWO b…
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11 Permission Slips for Your Life & Biz
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Tired of feeling stuck, judged, and down on yourself? Yeah wtf, let’s change that! Today I’m sharing a list of “permission slips” to give yourself in your life and biz. We make too many rules for ourselves, destroying our happiness and progress all at once. Let’s carve a path forward that feels better! Send us a text Find more resources over at Sar…
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Navigating Tough Transitions
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Life transitions can be a real struggle and it's not always easy when we don't know the timeline of things. Uncertainty, self-doubt, and despair can move in pretty quick. Today I'm talking all about transitions, what are they, why they are temporary, and most importantly how you can best navigate them and move forward. Send us a text Find more reso…
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Let's talk about Project Organization! If you're feeling overwhelmed this is a great episode to help you capture your ideas and get organized. I'll be sharing: How to capture and categorize project ideas Project categories and considerations The difference between passive and active projects Ongoing vs. one-off projects How I setup projects inside …
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Our Messy Move to San Diego, PTSD struggles, and 2023 Intentions
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A vulnerable scattered episode on being human during stressful times, working through mental health struggles, and accepting where you are. I'm excited for the new year but I'm going to take my time as I enter this next chapter :) Come say hi on Instagram @sarahsteckler - I'd love to know you listened to the show. Find more resources, episodes, and…
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Cozy Conversations: Forecasting your stress and mental energy capacity
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Welcome to another Cozy Conversation inside of the MPP! Today I'll be sharing: How I've been managing (and not managing) stress as we gear up for a big move right in the middle of the holidays Forecasting your stress and mental energy capacity into bite-sized chunks Decision making your micro choices so you can avoid the burden of decision fatigue …
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7 Simple and Effective Mindful Productivity Tips
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Let’s get back to basics and talk about simple and effective ways you can manage your time and energy, and get things done sustainably in your life and business! Find productivity and notion resources over on SarahSteckler.com Grab your copy of the Brain Dump Book! Grab your free planner publishing guide here --> Come say hi on Instagram @sarahstec…
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Cozy Convos: Different ways to show up, where we give our energy, permission to not engage
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We're back with another Cozy Conversation! This week I'm talking about: The mindset and perspective shift I had recently that got me into 6 different summits & bundles Where we give our energy to and the power of not engaging Running your business your way What we actually need to hear to do the things we know we need to do Grab your free Planner P…
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Cozy Conversations: Making things work for you, Emailing during world events, and setting intentions
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Let's have a cozy conversation about: What I learned from taking a "summer sabbatical" from Instagram Making things in your business work FOR you The pressure to email or not email your list when things happen in the world - and what I'm doing moving forward Setting Intentions and sharing what mine are for September! Share your thoughts with me ove…
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Setting goals doesn't have to be complicated or take months to reach your desired outcomes. Today let's talk about setting mini monthly goals you can do in a day to increase your joy, energy, and life outlook. If you want a boost in your confidence, self-efficacy, and want to celebrate some wins, this episode is for you! Let's get into it! Check ou…
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How to Publish a Planner
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Want to publish your own journal or planner this year? You might have a lot of questions like: How can I self-publish my own planner? Where can you publish planners online? Will there be a bunch of overhead expenses to get started? How can I get my planner in front of enough people? How much inventory will I need? Do I need to use confusing and tim…
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Summer Sabbatical, Decluttering, & Living a Simplified Life
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Hey friends! In this chill episode I want to update you about my summer sabbatical plans, how I'm decluttering my home, and ways I want to life a more simplified life. I hope it inspires you! Read the transcript on the blog here -> Grab your free planner publishing guide. Get started with the Brain Dump Book. Find more resources over at sarahsteckk…
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Launching a Successful Self-Care Card Deck on Kickstarter with Jenni Kowal
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What kinds of self-care do creative entrepreneurs really need? Jenni Kowal is the founder of Anytime Creative and creator of the Self-Care Adventure Cards that she successfully launched and fully funded on Kickstarter within the first 24 hours! Tune in to hear: How to manage overwhelm as a creative entrepreneur and ideas for creating a self-care co…
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Monthly Reflection (A Replay from Pretty Productive Life)
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This week I'm actually going to be sharing recent live replay recording of a call that I did inside of my program, Pretty Productive Life. This is a program where I have created a complete notion system to help you stay organized with your task and project management, create content, manage your mental wellbeing, and so much more. And now through t…
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Building a Productive Business Model that Works for Your Energy Capacity with Anne-Sophie Pelletier
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What happens when you find yourself in a cycle of burnout and unsustainable commitments in your business? How might you break free and make a change so that you can not only keep your head above water but also love how you work and get things done? Anne-Sophie Pelletier joins the podcast today to share her story of how she navigated through creatin…
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Checking in... a quick message for you.... Say hello on Instagram @mindfulproductivityblog Free Planner Publishing Guide Find more episodes and resources over at MindfulProductivityblog.com Send us a text Find more resources over at SarahSteckler.com Come say hi on Instagram @sarahstecklerDoor Sarah Steckler
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9 Ways to Step Into a Quiet & Simple Life
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Lately I've noticed that it doesn't take much to upset my nervous system, put me on edge, or drain my energy. I've been finding lots of joy in coming back to simplicity, embracing quieter days, and finding happiness in the smaller everyday moments. In today's episode I'll be sharing 9 ways you can bring joy back into your days and some fun activiti…
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Stepping Into Your Humanness: A Conversation with Lori Crawford & Sarah Steckler
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Enjoy this special episode where Lori Crawford of the Improviding Life Podcast interviews me. We talked about what it means to be more human, enjoyment and practices to be more present, and everything in between. Listen to Lori's Improviding Life Podcast Learn how to self-publish your own journal or planner Setup Your Simple Life Dashboard in Notio…
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Improviding & Making Life More Livable with Lori Crawford
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Today Lori Crawford joins the show and we discuss improviding, making live more livable, and new ways of incorporating mindful presence into your daily life. Lori Crawford is an embodiment guide currently embodying her first go at motherhood. She helps people like you, navigate overwhelm so you can access more ease and choice in your day to day liv…
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Slowing Down to Speed Up
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What does it mean to bring attention to your current life pace? How might slowing down and truly pausing allow you to bring insights into how you continue to move forward in your business? In this week's episode we'll explore: What it means to slow down to speed up How to create a routine slow down practice to pause and reflect 4 Simple questions t…
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Self-Discovery with Sara Katherine
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Sara Katherine is a Self-Discovery Coach, podcast host for Be Your Own Badass, and the author of Your Self-Discovery Journal, I’m Awesome: Here’s Why and Be Happy. Be Calm. Be YOU. Sara's mission is to help women achieve their goals without letting people-pleasing or perfectionism get in their way, so that they can create a life they truly love. Sh…
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Coming Back to Simple Joys
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A reminder today that things don't have to be complicated in order to produce joy. The simple and mundane things can be incredibly rewarding and life-changing. Tap into and make space for them. Let's talk about reminders for simple joys today! Find the full transcript on the show notes page here -> Learn more about my favorite business program WAIM…
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Notion Basics & New Features in the Works
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You’ve seen all the pretty templates and admired all the creative ways people have structured their dashboards but what exactly is Notion really? And how can you optimize it for yourself without overcomplicating the process? In today’s episode we’ll be breaking down Notion in simplest terms in hopes of explaining how the basic concept of this wiki-…
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Making the Most of Your Planning Time to Facilitate Sustainable Action
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Ever feel like your planning time wasn't as productive and useful as you'd like? In today's episode we'll be exploring ways to make the most out of your planning time within your business so that you can reduce your stress, increase your organization, and avoid endless decision fatigue. I'll also be sharing some of the biggest planning lessons I've…
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Mental Health Update, Anti-fragility and the Paradox of Happiness
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Today I'm updating you on my mental health journey, sharing some happiness research, and sparking a conversation around what it means to grow from tough moments. In this episode we discuss: Reflections as I work on C-PTSD recovery Anti-fragility in regards to happiness and overall wellbeing 10 Practical Principles of cultivating anti-fragility in y…
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My Daily Dashboard Setup in Notion
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What's the best information to consider when it comes to optimum daily productivity and energy management? Today I'll be walking you through my Daily Dashboard Setup in Notion and sharing exactly what I track and surface to stay on top of Focus Projects and get the most out of my time and effort. Get a walkthrough of my entire Notion system inside …
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Questions & Scenarios to Consider to Highlight What you Really Want
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It becomes so easy to get caught up in things that we think will make us happy, or what society or even friends and family pressure us to do or feel in order to create and facilitate joy in our lives. But I think that it's important to remember that it can be a lot more simple than we give ourselves credit for. And that feeling how you want to feel…
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How I Use Notion to Stay Organized in My Life & Business
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There are a ton of digital productivity and project management tools out there and Notion has been my favorite one! In this episode I break down what Notion is, how you can use it to capture and surface important info seamlessly, and how I setup my dashboards to manage my life and run my business. To see a complete walkthrough of my Notion Dashboar…
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Something happens when we truly take time to pause and step away from work and the daily rush of things. The longer we can steep in that space, the more we come to realize what we truly need, what feels best, and the pace we want to set moving forward. Join me on this weeks episode for a cozy conversation around making time for stillness, unpluggin…
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Developing Your Planning Plan for Your Planners
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Do you have a plan for your planners? Should you use more than one? Still stuck on choosing a planner? Let's talk about it! In this episode I'll be sharing which planners I'll be using for the year ahead, how I'll be using them, and talking about the differences in functional planning, memory keeping, brain dumps, and creative planning. Planners me…
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Creating a Simple Monthly Overview
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One of the best ways to stay organized and create structure with your time and mental energy is to map out your month in advance! In this episode we'll be covering simple ways to create a monthly overview in your life & biz so you can stay on top of important projects, get things done, and also create time to reflect and set mindful intentions for …
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Black Friday Mistakes, Resistance, PTSD, ADHD, & The Mental Health Process
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Yeah, let's just get into all of this... More resources over at MindfulProductivityBlog.com Come say hi on Instagram @MindfulProductivityBlog Send us a text Find more resources over at SarahSteckler.com Come say hi on Instagram @sarahstecklerDoor Sarah Steckler
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Weekly Pulse Point Check Ins
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Your Weekly Pulse Point check-in is a time to check in on your projects and see how far along you are and if you're on track to meet your deadline. It's also a time to check in with yourself and see I what you can let go of: ideas, tasks, certain projects. Today we'll be exploring why check ins are so helpful & how you can get started creating or r…
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21 Things I’ve done (and never done) in my business
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When I started my online business in 2015 I had a lot of assumptions about what I “must do” in order to be successful. I thought that if I wasn’t hitting those $10k months or bringing in a $20k launch that I must be missing some success secret or worse, maybe I wasn’t doing enough money mindset work or was thinking all the wrong thoughts and making…
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Join me for a super casual, random, cozy conversation about setting the pace of your life, melting into things that bring you joy, and finding the sensory things that make you feel cozy at home. Find resources, planners, and more episodes over at MindfulProductivityBlog.com Grab your free planner publishing guide here. Daily Productivity & Brain Du…
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Do you need to set more goals?
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What if this was the year that you didn't set a thousand new goals to reach in order to feel good about yourself? Instead, you can just keep existing and keep track of what you love about life. How does this thought sit with you? Well, in today's episode, I want to explore this with you. I want to have a conversation around our pressure to always b…
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How I Use Weekly Theme Days in my Business
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Having Weekly Theme days in my business has allowed me to create more focus and energy management as I work through my focus projects. It's less about what each day is and more so the permission and container each day provides that allows me to truly focus on one thing at a time without feeling as scattered or distracted by other equally as importa…
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Productivity is often overcomplicated. Build a giant system, find the perfect online tool, make it look appealing. There's an expansion in coming back to simplicity, an allowance that encourages us to escape the never-ending cycle of perfectionist planning and instead, lets us surface the tasks we need so we can take sustainable action. In order to…
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My Planning Process Overview
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Let's talk planning! Today I'll be breaking down the overview of how I use big picture planning, weekly planning, and daily capturing to stay on top of tasks, goals, and mental energy! Find more resources over at MindfulProductivityBlog.com Links Mentioned: Daily Productivity & Brain Dump Book Mindful Productivity Guide Pretty Productive Life Publi…
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An Attempt to Be More Human on the Internet
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this is exactly what you think it is, maybe. MindfulProductivityBlog.com is my website Send us a text Find more resources over at SarahSteckler.com Come say hi on Instagram @sarahstecklerDoor Sarah Steckler
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Sustainable Monthly Planning
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Let's re-think how we plan for the month ahead! Ever get stuck in the pre-planning zone? Where should I start? There are so many things I need to do, aaaah! In today's episode, I'll be walking you through the 4 pillars and questions you need to ask yourself to create a more realistic and sustainable monthly plan for your life and business. Grab the…
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Entrepreneurial Outlaws with Melanie Knights
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It's about high time we talk about doing things your way in your business. Join me and special guest Melanie Knights as we dive into a lovely conversation around what it means to be an entrepreneurial outlaw. Melanie is a self published author, business mentor and host of the podcast Entrepreneurial Outlaws. She describes her work as the entreprene…
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18 Reminders to Listen to When the World Feels Heavy
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Today I want you to take a deep breath and come on an audio journey with me so we can calm your mind and hopefully dispel some of the overwhelm or dread you're feeling. It's normal and human to get to a point where the world in general feels like a lot. Which is why it's so important to incorporate mindfulness exercises and prompts into your life t…
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Let's Do a Self Check-In
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When was the last time you REALLY checked in with yourself, your needs, wants, and what life is currently throwing at you? This is so helpful and you are going to feel so much better about what to do next after listening to this episode. Find all of the questions and prompts from today's episode by visiting the show notes over at MindfulProductivit…
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