{"podcast":{"title":"How I Work","slug":"how-i-work-960132","podcast_index_feed_id":960132,"rss_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/fa326977-3de5-4283-9b8b-af3500c58607/190bd54e-82e6-43fb-8f6a-af46001792de/71f0c47d-eac4-4e42-b713-af46001792ec/podcast.rss","website_url":"https://www.iheart.com/podcast/239-how-i-work-31072293/","image_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/programs/fa326977-3de5-4283-9b8b-af3500c58607/190bd54e-82e6-43fb-8f6a-af46001792de/image.jpg?t=1759741460&size=Large","author":"Amantha Imber","episode_count":748,"summary":"You know those annoyingly successful people who seem to have it all figured out? Time to steal their playbook. Organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber gets world‑class achievers to spill their secrets - the daily strategies behind their success through to life hacks and productivity hacks they’d rather keep to themselves. We’re talking practical tips for boosting your output (including clever AI tools and shortcuts that’ll make you look like a genius), managing overwhelm without losing your mind, and optimising both work and wellbeing. No motivational fluff. Just battle‑tested tactics from people who’ve cracked the code.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T04:20:32.982842+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-work-960132"},"episode":{"title":"Why planning 60% of your day is the most productive thing you can do, with Cyril Peupion","slug":"why-planning-60-of-your-day-is-the-most-productive-thing-you-can-do-with-cyril-peupion","published_at":"2026-09-09T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-work-960132/why-planning-60-of-your-day-is-the-most-productive-thing-you-can-do-with-cyril-peupion","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-work-960132","url":"https://omny.fm/shows/how-i-work/hiw-cyril-v3","audio_url":"https://mgln.ai/e/187/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/fa326977-3de5-4283-9b8b-af3500c58607/190bd54e-82e6-43fb-8f6a-af46001792de/3a769c4c-66ca-4724-bb5d-b4be00e2bdd0/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=71f0c47d-eac4-4e42-b713-af46001792ec","summary":"There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes not from working hard, but from never quite feeling like you've worked on the right things. You finish a full day, maybe a long one, and yet the projects that actually matter haven't moved. The inbox is cleaner, the meetings are done, but the needle hasn't shifted.  Cyril Peupion has spent two decades coaching executives on exactly this problem, and his diagnosis is consistent: the issue is the gap between where leaders want to go and what they actually spend their time on.  In this episode, I sit down with Cyril, author of Work Smarter, Live Better and his latest book Less Achieves More , to work through his practical framework for closing that gap. He has trained more than 5,000 people across 19 countries.  Cyril and I discuss:   Why high performers prioritise by impact rather than by deadline, and how to train yourself to do the same  The quarterly big rocks process: how to choose two or three genuine priorities and find the courage to subtract everything else  The weekly planning ritual Cyril recommends, including why you should look at your big rocks before you ever open your calendar  The ideal week exercise that helps leaders reclaim 40% of their time without guilt  How to plan for the unplanned by deliberately blocking reactive time in your day  The four Ds (delete, decrease, defer, delegate) for handling the urgent stuff without sacrificing what matters most    Key quotes   \"If you work 10 hours a day, you cannot plan 10 hours per day. It's a recipe for disaster.\"  \"I'd rather start my planning from the ideal and then adapt it than start my planning from an open sheet and let everything take control.\"  Connect with Cyril Peupion on LinkedIn an…","meta_description":"There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes not from working hard, but from never quite feeling like you've worked on the right things. You finish a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1750,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-i-work-960132/episodes/why-planning-60-of-your-day-is-the-most-productive-thing-you-can-do-with-cyril-peupion/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-work-960132/why-planning-60-of-your-day-is-the-most-productive-thing-you-can-do-with-cyril-peupion.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}