How Simple Systems Can Unlock Your Writing Productivity, with Kari Roberts
If you're like me, you struggle to carve out time to write...you wish you could uncomplicate life and get more done.\n\n\n\nGood news! I have business coach and online business manager Kari Roberts on the show to help us think through simple systems that can unlock our writing productivity and creativity.\n\n\n\n"It's like you're on a treadmill," she says. "You're running in place, but you're not going anywhere. So you're not really getting anything done."\n\n\n\nSound familiar? Kari knows our struggles and offers solutions. She says, "You might need to strategize or systematize other things so that you can make the space that you need to do the writing."\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKari Roberts is a business coach and online business manager for creative small business owners. She helps them figure out time management and systems that allow them to grow their business while still having enough time and energy for work, business, and home life. Her business advice has been featured on VoyageATL Magazine, The Rising Tide Society, The Speak to Scale Podcast, Creative at Heart Conference and more. \n\n\n\nKari is the host of Finding Freedom with Simple Systems Podcast and the creator and host of Overwhelmed to Organized the Summit. When she isn\u2019t being a \u201cserial helper\u201d through one of her businesses she enjoys watching sports with her husband, walking in the park with her 2 dogs, listening to podcasts, sampling tasty bourbons, and catching up on reality TV.\n\n\n\nHer approach to creating systems? "I like to go in and try to find: What's the simplest way. If we're trying to get X done, what's the simplest way to get to X. It may not be the fancy thing. It may not be with the shiny object. But if we can condense it and make it simple, then that can free up your time and free up your mental space so that you can get other things done."\n\n\n\nListen to the interview and you'll learn principles that may transform your approach to writing...and life.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResources:\n\n\n\n\nKari on Instagram\n\n\n\nPodcast: https://kariandcompany.com/podcast\n\n\n\nGet your very own copy of Kari's Time-Blocking Schedule: HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/xgNp7vmbXpk\n\n\n\n\nANN KROEKER, WRITING COACH\n\n\n\nEpisode 239 Transcript\n\n\n\nHow Simple Systems Can Unlock Your Writing Productivity: Interview with Kari Roberts\n\n\n\nAnn Kroeker (00:03): It's so hard to find time for writing, isn't it? It's hard to do all the things a writer needs to do these days. If only if only we had a simple system that we could set up to make the rest of our creative life flourish\u2026I have business coach and online business manager Kari Roberts here today to help us think through simple systems we can set up to increase our writing productivity. I'm Ann Kroeker, writing coach. If you're new here, welcome. If you're a regular, welcome back. I'm sharing my best tips and training\u2013skills and strategies\u2014to help you improve your craft, pursue publishing, and achieve your writing goals. Be sure to subscribe for more content.\n\n\n\nAnn Kroeker (00:44): From time to time I invite guests on. So you can learn from their wisdom, like today's guest, Kari Roberts. Kari is a business coach and an online business manager for creative, small business owners. She helps them figure out time management and systems so that they're freed up to have enough time for work business and home life. Kari is the host of her own podcast, Finding Freedom with Simple Systems. And today she's going to talk about that as it applies to writing productivity. Kari, thank you for being with us today.\n\n\n\nKari Roberts (01:13): Thank you for having me. I'm happy to be here.\n\n\n\nAnn Kroeker (01:16): I am so intrigued by this whole idea that writers who are always pressed for time and always longing for productivity, how simple systems might be the way that they can unlock and unleash that. So first, I read your bio and it tells us quite a bit about you, but I would love you to explain maybe just in simple terms, what you do, how you serve people.\n\n\n\nKari Roberts (01:40): Okay.