#028: How to Start and Stop Your Workday

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Education, Timemanagement, Productivity, Focus, Organization, Michaelhyatt, Planning, Achievement, Business, Worklifebalance, Goals

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🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

You love your work, and you can’t wait to get started! But somehow, the day never goes as planned. You get derailed by low-leverage tasks, and half the time you don’t start your big project until after lunch. By the end of the day, you realize you’ll have to finish up at home. By Friday, you’re totally exhausted—and still not done! Nobody knows rollover like we know rollover. After more Saturdays at the office than we care to remember, we’ve found a way to end the rollover problem once and for all. You can do that by bookending your day with workday startup and shutdown rituals. When you do, you’ll finally quit leaving the office with a laptop full of take-home work. You’ll get your margin back and be more productive than ever before. In this episode you will— Find out why you never seem to “get finished” for the day. Learn the best way to stop rolling tasks over to the next day. Understand how the never-ending to-do list is undermining your productivity. Identify the simple fallacy that causes us to take on too much work. Gain the simple trick that will help you start and stop work in a controlled way. Start to feel a sense of completion at the end of the day. This episode of Focus on This is brought to you by Compass, a monthly program to help Full Focus Planner users stay on track with their goals. Learn more at leadto.win/compass. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, what do you think is worse? Living in constant reaction mode or missing the goals that
0:07.6	matter most? Well, what if I told you both problems stem from the same route? And you can actually
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0:34.2	at fullfocus.com forward slash rise.
0:51.2	This episode of Focus on This is brought to you by Compass, a monthly program to help full focus planner users stay on track with their goals.
0:55.9	Learn more at Focuson This this podcast.com slash compass.
0:58.4	Welcome to another... Welcome to another episode of focus...
1:03.0	Welcome to another episode of Focus on...
1:07.0	You gotta click on the tickets to...
1:09.0	I'm sorry.
1:09.0	I'm sorry. Blu-bo-b-b-b-bo-b-b-b-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. episode of Focus on this. Welcome to another episode of Focus on this.
1:21.8	Welcome to another episode of Focus on This, the most productive podcast on the internet.
1:26.8	So you can banish distractions, get the right stuff done, and finally start Loving Mondays.
1:30.0	With your host, Courtney Baker and Blake Stratton.
1:38.8	Hey, Blake, the other day I was telling somebody that about our podcast, and I said.
1:39.4	You were bragging?
1:40.9	No, I wasn't.
1:42.0	It kind of came up.
1:43.2	You were bragging about me?
1:44.9	No, none of the above. Okay. Continue. It It kind of came up. You're bragging about me? No, none of the above.
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