A productivity system can look great on paper and still make your life harder.
In this episode, I’m talking with Adrienne Dalaly about personalized productivity, ADHD, burnout, rest, delegation, and what happens when the systems that once worked for us stop fitting.
Adrienne works at the intersection of process and project management, risk analysis, astrology, and tarot. Her approach gives us a useful way to think about time management: gather information about how you work, test what helps, and keep adjusting as your life changes.
We talk about the client who had accumulated 27 different systems as her business grew, why handing something off means actually letting someone else own it, and Adrienne’s experience discovering that the rest she thought would require 24 hours sometimes only required 90 minutes of being responsible for herself.
We also get into ADHD time perception, sensory rest for moms, creative thinking during periods of rest, and why founders often end up running businesses designed around everyone else’s working style.
In this episode:
Why growing businesses need regular systems audits
ADHD productivity and our sometimes unreliable perception of time
Delegating without taking the task back
The difference between rest and self-care
Why hobbies do not need to become side hustles
How rest can create space for ideas and creative problem-solving
Building flexible structure into your calendar
Using brain dumps and external support when everything feels tangled
Testing productivity tools before reorganizing your entire life around them
Recognizing when you’ve outgrown a system that used to work
Resources mentioned:
Episode onDr. Saundra Dalton-Smith’s Seven Types of Rest framework: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/tired-you-might-be-resting-wrong/id1601675882?i=1000736551084
Chelsey Newmyer Energy + Hours episode on Human Design and time management: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/your-productivity-style-is-written-in-your-birth-chart/id1601675882?i=1000786186381
If this episode gave you a new way to think about your own productivity systems, send it to someone whose calendar, workload, or business systems could use a rethink.
About Adrienne Dalaly:
Adrienne Dalaly is the founder of Adrienne Dalaly Consulting and Skulltistics, a methodology blending process and project management, risk analysis, astrology, and tarot. She helps founders and leaders create systems, communication practices, and ways of working that fit how they actually operate.
Website: https://www.adriennedalalyconsulting.com/workwithme Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adrienne_dalaly_skulltistics
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I’m Jill, a Time Management Expert and creator of the Time Magic™ Method. I help high performers create sustainable productivity through time + energy management that works for real life. My work blends practical systems, energy awareness, and neuro-affirming tools to help people manage their priorities, capacity, and workload without burning out.
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