#043: How to Avoid Pointless Meetings

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

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

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

You pride yourself on being productive at work. But there’s one problem: meetings! They feel boring and pointless, a total waste of time. It’s so frustrating! We’ve felt that pain, and we’ve got a perfect solution for you. By asking these few questions before every meeting, you can make every single one super productive. No more multitasking while you wait for release from conference-room jail. You’ll have fewer, more productive meetings and feel in control of your time again. In this episode, you’ll discover— Suggestions for bringing life and vibrance back to all of your meetings. How to determine which team members need to be in each meeting. Why consensus is not the main objective—and what you should focus on instead. Some of our best tips for making sure your meetings produce actual results. How Courtney ensures she’s prepared for every meeting in advance. 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
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1:05.7	Welcome to another episode of Focus on this, the most productive podcast on the internet,
1:12.5	so you can banish distractions, get the right stuff done, and finally start loving Mond Mondays with your host, Courtney Baker and Blake Stratton. Hey, Blake. Hey, Courtney, how are you doing today? It's good. I'm doing,
1:21.1	I'm doing okay. That's how I'm doing. Well, your closet looks organized. You got that going for you.
1:27.1	That is true. I have
1:28.5	always said anytime my closet is a mess or my car is a mess, like you know, you know, you might
1:36.2	want to stay clear. So, yeah, on that level, the closet is doing all right. What we're talking about today is, I think, on the short list, whenever I ask someone,
1:48.8	maybe it's in a weekly preview question or something like that, hey, you know, what went wrong?
1:53.5	Like, what kind of interrupted you or threw you off?
1:57.2	What we're talking about today is on everyone's short list, I think.
2:01.0	Oh, yes, 100%.
2:03.5	It's the thing that honestly feels like the biggest time wasteer a lot of times.
2:10.3	And we're going to be talking about meetings.
2:14.5	Meetings, meetings, meetings.
2:16.9	If everybody out there is like sighing a collective sigh of like
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