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Focus on This

#036: The Note-Taking Method for Taking Action

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

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

4.5657 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

You pride yourself on being a high achiever. But that means tracking a ton of information, and that’s hard to do. You come out of a meeting with only one to-do item, but you forget what it is. You made a note on your tablet, but where is it? Evernote? Google Docs? Word? It’s super frustrating. Why is it so hard to keep track of all those little things? After thousands of hours in meetings, we’ve devised the perfect way to capture key information for easy retrieval. And it works in other settings too! Follow these three steps, and you’ll never forget an action item again! You can leave every meeting and end every day with no worry about forgetting something important. You’ll have perfect confidence that everything that needs to be done has been done. In this episode, you’ll discover— How to capture information so you don’t miss important details or let people down. The value of intentional inconvenience, and how you can implement it to increase effectiveness. Suggestions for how to code your notes for followup. What to do with your notes after you finish taking them. How to use the Index in the Full Focus Planner to keep up with scattered notes. 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, even through today's crisis. Learn more at www.fullfocusplanner.com/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

0:13.2

fix it, starting now. Join our free training where Michael Hyatt and Marissa Hyatt are going to be talking about rising above

0:22.4

the noise, reclaim your potential and achieve your goals in 2025. It's not just another online

0:28.2

training. This is your chance to make real progress. Spaces are limited, so sign up now

0:34.2

at fullfocus.com forward slash rise.

0:46.0

This episode of Focus on this is brought to you by Compass,

0:51.1

a monthly program to help full-focus planner users stay on track with their goals,

0:52.7

even through today's crisis.

0:55.9

Learn more at fullfocus focus planner.com slash compass. Should I reference how awkwardly I ended that call?

1:01.6

No. Okay, like you got so.

1:06.7

I think you to everything else just as awkwardly.

1:11.5

Welcome to another episode of Focus on This, the most productive podcast on the internet, so you can banish distractions, get the right stuff done, and finally start loving Mondays with your host, Courtney Baker, and Blake Stratton.

1:27.0

Hey, Blake. Hey, Blake.

1:28.3

Hey, Courtney.

1:28.9

I, you know, I'm happy that it's Monday, but I feel a little sad.

1:32.9

You do.

1:34.1

And I think we can all acknowledge why.

1:36.4

Yeah.

1:37.3

It's important.

1:38.1

It's because Verbs isn't in the room right now.

1:39.8

Yeah, that's true.

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