014: Get Over FOMO: Focus on What's Important
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Discover how you can hone in and focus on your priorities without getting FOMO about missing other opportunities. For today's episode, I'm talking about how FOMO is a major factor to developing trends and to how we perceive the many situations around us. I'll discuss a few of my favorite tips to start breaking that feeling many of us get when we have to choose between what to do.
What's In This Episode:
- Learn what the focus is for season 2 and why.
- How Steve Jobs got over the Fear of Missing Out.
- The history of the word priority.
- How and why we experience FOMO.
- The number one regret of people on their deathbeds.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at Inquilpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:21.4 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 14. |
| 0:28.3 | Today is a really special day because this is the first episode of our second season. |
| 0:33.8 | So you may have already noticed there was a little bit of a change when the introduction started. |
| 0:38.8 | I really wanted to do something that felt a little more personal. I feel like I wanted it to |
| 0:45.3 | to reflect me a little bit more. So I asked my husband John to do the voiceover for the introduction. |
| 0:52.3 | Now if you know John at all, you know he is the |
| 0:56.4 | ultimate introvert. So this was truly an act of love for him to do for me. He is so supportive |
| 1:02.5 | of me and, of course, of the podcast. It really wasn't feasible for him to be on the podcast |
| 1:08.4 | each week like I'd really like. But this is his way of being involved in it. |
| 1:12.9 | And I love how it turned out. |
| 1:14.4 | So I hope that you like it too. |
| 1:15.9 | It's just one of the little changes that we're doing and moving forward into season two. |
| 1:20.4 | And with this new season comes a whole new focus. |
| 1:23.9 | So I'm really excited because each season is very, very carefully planned out for you |
| 1:30.3 | with a focus. Because just like with my goal setting and the planning that I've talked to you |
| 1:35.4 | about in the past, I always like to have an end goal in mind. And with season two, I want to know |
| 1:43.1 | where we're going to be at the end of the 13 weeks together |
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