About this episode

Brooke Elder shares her ClickUp daily routine to enhance productivity and manage tasks effectively.

Picture this: your desk is a mosaic of sticky notes, your brain is still juggling yesterday's to-dos, and you're starting the day already behind. Sound familiar? Here's the secret most productivity advice skips right over — how you START your day comes down to how you ENDED the day before. Trust me, the magic isn't another app, it's a rhythm. Today I'm walking you through the exact ClickUp start-up and shut-down routine I use to turn that sticky-note chaos into a calm, you-know-exactly-what-to-do morning. Grab your favorite drink, this one's a build-along! First we tackle the sneaky productivity killer: context switching. Every time you bounce from a project to email to a Facebook ping and back, your brain pays a tax, and that flow state where your best ideas live never gets a chance to show up. So we set the foundation with the Pomodoro rhythm (50 minutes on, 10 minutes off), then jump into ClickUp and build your home base. I'll show you the My Tasks dashboard, the cards worth keeping (Recents, Agenda, My Work, Personal List), the one rule I never break — every task gets an assignee AND a due date — and my favorite trick: pinning your day's tasks to Favorites…

People in this episode

Host: Brooke Elder

Topics covered

• productivity
• ClickUp
• daily routine
• task management
• Pomodoro technique
• context switching

Keywords

• sticky notes
• productivity killer
• My Tasks dashboard
• task assignee
• end-of-day routine
• AI Standup

Mentioned in this episode

Products: ClickUp

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