Martine Ellis

From burnt out to thriving

For Martine Ellis, sustainable productivity depends on our well-being.

Challenging hustle culture and pseudo-productivity, she incorporates daily rituals, protected time for deep work, and energy management.

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Productivity and well-being coach Martine Ellis.

Why Martine uses Morgen

"Morgen helps me manage the three distinct areas of my life: employed work, business, and personal. It enables me to maintain clear boundaries between them while taking a holistic view to prioritise balance and wellbeing. With Morgen, I feel secure knowing what I’m doing and where I need to be. It makes scheduling meetings seamless, reduces administrative overhead, and helps me avoid frequent context switching, so I can stay focused on what matters most."
- Martine Ellis

Multiple Calendars

Martine manages 3 calendars for a holistic view of her time and to spot if any one is overloaded.

Time Blocking

She time blocks deep work in her calendar to protect time for challenging high-impact tasks.

Todoist Integration

Syncs her Todoist tasks for seamless prioritization, time blocking, and tracking.

Schedule Rituals

Daily startup and shutdown routines, and a weekly review help Martine stay on track.

Minimum Viable Toolkit

Todoist x Morgen

Schedule Todoist tasks directly in your calendar to plan and protect time to get the work done.

Martine fights the urge to try every productivity tool, and instead has built her minimum viable productivity toolkit.

Her task manager of choice is Todoist, where she captures work and life to-dos
By integrating Morgen and Todoist, she can see her tasks next to her calendar, sort by priority, and schedule time for the most important ones
When she marks it complete in Morgen, the task status updates in Todoist

Connect Morgen x Todoist

Tasks from Todoist time blocked in her calendar.

Consolidate Calendars

Manage all your calendars

Combine multiple calendars in Morgen to manage them in one place.

Martine manages her coaching, business, and life calendars in Morgen. This helps her:

Color code by zone: Martine assigns each calendar a color to easily spot if one life zone is overloaded.
Reduce context switching: She groups events and tasks by life zone to reduce context switching.
Schedule rituals: Daily startup and shutdown routines and a weekly review help her stay focused.

Consolidate your time

More tips from Martine

Martine shares tips for being more productive, creative, and intentional through her Doodles.

The Pomodoro technique is a way to schedule frequent microbreaks in work sessions to keep energy and focus high.

Take microbreaks

Martine takes microbreaks using the Pomodoro technique for sustained focus. Choose your break frequency and Morgen can schedule those in.

A graph showing the portion of time spent on what you say you want to do vs how time spent on other things.

Prioritize your time

Martine checks her progress against her annual goals each week. If she hasn't progressed she assesses how she spent her time and how to better prioritize impactful work.

A shutdown routine scheduled in the calendar to ease the transition from work to home.

Schedule rituals

Martine takes 5 minutes to review her day before shutting off work. She identifies what work needs more time and celebrates her wins. Then she can ease out of her work zone.

Funnel showing how to go from capturing tasks to focusing on the most important ones.

Funnel your tasks

It's good to capture all your to-dos, but you may have more than you can tackle. Martine captures and organizes tasks in Todoist, then prioritizes those that matter by time blocking.

A daily schedule filled with 'work about work' rather than actual work.

Reduce 'work-about-work'

If you finish your day feeling like you were busy yet not impactful, Martine advises taking a look at how your time was spent.

Meetings, calls, and planning sessions are important, however if your day skews too heavily in this direction, you likely don't have enough time to make real progress.

To stay focused on your most important work, Martine recommends:
1. Time block deep work sessions in your calendar before it fills up.
2. Don't say "yes" to every meeting, only those that matter.
3. Say no (or not now) to new projects.

Time Block

Schedule time for deep work

Martine doesn't time block every minute or task. Instead, she finds it most helpful to time block her most challenging tasks that demand focus. If she doesn't complete the task in the blocked time, she will set a new block the following day when her energy is fresh.

Unlock deep work

Use Frames in Morgen to template your ideal week and create space for deep work.

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