Why planning 60% of your day is the most productive thing you can do, with Cyril Peupion
About this episode
Cyril Peupion discusses effective planning strategies to enhance productivity and focus on impactful work.
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…
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