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LESLIE SHREVE
Founder & CEO, Productive Day®
Creator of Taskology® The Science of Getting Things Done
Workload Management, Efficiency, and Productivity Training & Consulting for Leaders, Managers, and Motivated Professionals
Since 2003
08/03/2026
🤔Have you noticed how a to-do list on paper doesn’t allow you to plan easily or prioritize accurately?
You feel limited.
Stuck even.
Because there are SO many tasks coming from so many places...
You can’t possibly get them all on your legal pad for their proper management.
So, you do the best you can.
But tasks are missed. Follow-ups are forgotten. Things slip through the cracks.
And you’re NERVOUS about the next “Oops!” moment you know is coming, when you suddenly remember a task you had previously forgotten.
📄Don’t let the prison of paper shackle you or limit the progress you really want to make.
👉Find out how to break FREE from the confines of the most common mistakes when you download this Free Quick Insights Report: https://productiveday.com/5-biggest-mistakes-professionals-make-when-managing-things-to-do/.
My client Sandy is in charge of a practice group in a $77 million accounting firm with 300 employees. She manages a team of 16. She's a wife, mother of two teenage boys, shareholder in the company, treasurer for three boards, and daughter of two aging parents who own a family business.
She spends so much of her time coaching her team, handling Q&A, problem solving, and putting out fires - while still trying to accomplish her own work. With everything moving so fast, she consistently feels like she's missing things.
When she first contacted me, she said: "I'm feeling very overwhelmed and it's impacting my health and happiness." She's 47 but feels like she's 67 from how tired she is every day. And Sandy's story is not unique.
Here's something no one talks about. Organizations invest massive amounts in leadership training for their managers - communication, emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, you name it. But almost no one is teaching managers the skill they actually need most: how to manage the work itself.
Think about it. Before 9 a.m., a manager has already absorbed dozens of emails, messages, requests, and calendar changes. Their team is lining up at the door. And they're trying to figure out what deserves their attention first.
Who's teaching managers how to handle all of that? Almost no one. And that's exactly why modern managers are having a meltdown.
07/30/2026
If you feel behind, is it because you have too much to do?
Or is it because you simply don’t know where to start?
When tasks are scattered everywhere...
• in email
• In voicemail
• in meeting notes
• in texts
• on the calendar
• in your memory
..that’s not a system. That’s fragmentation.
Instead, CENTRALIZE your tasks. It’s the key to clarity, relief, and empowerment.
When everything is in one place, your brain can finally stop JUGGLING.
And you’ll have a MUCH easier time of DOING.
👉 Want help with creating your Mission Control, step-by-step?
Here’s where to start:
✅ Pick ONE place to manage tasks
✅ Pull tasks AWAY of their sources
✅ Give every task a clear action date
Check out my Fast-Action Formula for Tasks
https://productiveday.com/waitlist-fast-action-formula
# WorkdaysThatWork
07/30/2026
Managers account for 70% of team engagement.
But manager engagement itself has dropped from 30% to 22% in two years.
After working with leaders and managers for more than two decades, I've discovered that disengagement isn't the real problem.
It's the result of two much larger forces reshaping the manager's workday.
And it’s not a people problem.
If you're a manager being asked to do more than ever while receiving less support, swipe through.
Link to subscribe in the comments.
📧 You flag email relentlessly...
Only to flag dozens that just scroll off the screen.
📉 You create an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of to-dos...
And then give up from the high maintenance.
📌 You make a rainbow of sticky note reminders...
But the urgent ones disappear in the shuffle on your desk.
It’s time for a change.
You need a single system that’s...
🙏 consolidated
✅ convenient
📱 & digital.
One that keeps up with both you AND your work.
Listen in as I talk with my client, Mark King, CFO of the Telcom Insurance Company, as he describes how Taskology not only transformed his workday, but his entire life.
07/22/2026
Workday challenges are bad enough. But let’s talk about what they’re CAUSING.
Those outcomes have a MUCH higher cost. 💸
The standard challenges include...
⚠️ ...endless email
⚠️ …no clarity
⚠️ ...information is hard to find
⚠️ ...no time
⚠️ ️…competing priorities
⚠️ ...scattered to-do lists
These cause stress in your workday, sure. But it goes deeper than that.
The stress you feel is amplified by...
❌ ...not knowing how to fix the challenges
❌ ...anxiety about what’s been missed
❌ ...the FALLOUT from what’s been missed
And this just makes the day worse. And stress go higher.📈
If this sounds like your workday—and your stress level—find out how to manage work more easily and effectively when you sign up for the 🎧 Productive Day® Smart Steps Audio Series 🎧, and get short, but valuable, weekly audios for a whole year.
It’s time to catch the wind in your sails so you can make AMAZING progress and reduce your stress. For good. Comment 🧠 ”Smart Steps” to get your first audio today.
07/20/2026
🌃 Working late doesn’t mean you’re dedicated.
It means your system failed you during the day.
And now you’re paying for it with your personal time.
But you don’t have to keep “catching up” at night.
Comment REPORT to get our 📊 Quick Insights Report 📊 for how to rebuild a workday that actually finishes on time.
Then you can get more results during the day...
Feel satisfied with what you accomplished...
And unplug at home to enjoy more personal time.
07/17/2026
The more places your work lives… the harder it is to feel in control of any of it.
📱 Tasks in one app.
📝 Notes in another.
🧠 And your brain trying to hold the rest together.
If your work feels scattered, this is for you.
Take the 🔍Productive Day Quiz🔍 to find your biggest productivity blind spot—and how to start fixing it. Take it here now!
👉 https://productiveday.com/quiz
07/14/2026
The modern manager meltdown is real. Work volume from every direction, task ambiguity that wastes time, and almost no training for how to manage it all.
This month's Efficiency Edge breaks down the two forces behind the crisis and what you can do about it.
If you're a manager wondering "Where do I even start?"... this was written for you.
Comment 'MELTDOWN' and I'll send it your way.
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