What if organizing your life fostered greater mental well-being?
What if mental well-being helped you reach great results and satisfaction?
Professor Sara Wigal teaches us how to accelerate productivity while being mindful of our personal needs and emotions. As a teacher, she uses specific, proven strategies to help her students organize their lives for better results and better mental resilience.
You can read Sara’s research here!
On Jon Meyers’s Bookshelf
The Protagonist’s Journey by Scott Myers
The One Week Baby (How did that get there?)
Squeaky Poems by Jack Handey
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
The Promise of Failure by John McNally
The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handey
Notes
00:00 We’re writing a book called Write Anyway.
00:56 Introduction
- Emily met Sara because she got out of her bubble. Is a Muffler Man still a muffler man when it’s comprised of brake parts?
07:00 YOU RESPOND!
- Mo Stevens owns Bob Saenz’s book.
07:53 SARA WIGAL
- Whole Person Formation
- Ami McConnell, WriterFest
- Holistic teaching/research.
- How-To-College
18:31 Mindfulness & Productivity
- Journal of Scholarship, Teaching, and Learning
- More research is needed.
27:56 Pausing For More
- Breathing, Slow Down, Text Contemplation
30:56 A Surprise Guest!
31:57 Journaling
- Permission to download, Practice, Life Habit
36:40 Stretching
- Mind/Body Connection
41:08 Emily’s First-Time Revelation
42:12 Handwriting vs. Typing
43:16 Optimizing Productivity
- Email skills and etiquette, Inbox Zero, Color Coding, Folder Naming
- Mission and purpose, Time boxing, Calendars
57:56 CALL TO ACTION
- Try to Implement a Mindful Practice into Your Writing Life or Use Your Timeboxing Skills to Schedule Specific Writing Times (Write Anyway)
- As promised, buy envelopes here through Jon Meyers’s affiliate link: https://amzn.to/4en5lf8 But really we want you to get out of your bubble and go buy them in-person!
1:09:30 LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and FOLLOW
- And review. And share.
1:10:34 THE FINAL ACT
- Emily’s Scavenger Hunt with the extra-whiny Jon Meyers