#048: The Easiest Way to Start Difficult Tasks

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

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

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🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

You want to get that big task knocked off. It’s like a weight hanging over you every day. And every day you say, “I’m going to tackle it first thing!” But it’s intimidating! Where do you start? It’s easy to procrastinate. And when you do dive into a big project first thing in the morning, you’re worn out by noon. It seems like you can’t win. In our experience, there’s a right way and a wrong way to tackle a big project. And most of us have been taught the wrong way! We’ve got a foolproof plan for getting started on your biggest task of the day that will ensure you get it done—and the other things you need to take care of. Just follow these steps, and you’ll quit procrastinating, start achieving, and have brainpower to spare at the end of the day. 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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1:00.8	Happy Monday, everyone.
1:06.8	This is Verbs welcoming you 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
1:12.6	loving Mondays with your host Courtney Baker and Blake Stratton. Hey. Yay. I'm glad I hear I hear applause.
1:22.5	It's kind of a gut reaction, you know. Whenever I hear my name announced, you know, I kind of hear
1:28.0	that to just rev me up, get me excited, you know, that's what goes on in my mental sphere.
1:33.6	Well, you may need it because full transparency, you just had a lot of technical issues
1:39.7	getting set up. And I was not sure about your mental state going into this episode.
1:45.7	Courtney, the listener would be none the wiser. They know I'm a pro's pro. Just because I'm
1:50.3	wearing a shirt that has flowers on it that you guys just like. Verbs, let's talk about Blake's
1:54.9	shirt for a second. Please. Yeah. Are you, I mean, usually verbs is our style icon here on the show.
2:02.6	So are you, what's going on?
2:05.5	You know, is this a new look?
2:06.8	Well, I've been studying mostly from verbs, you know, trying to pick up what I can.
2:12.8	I am admittedly a novice, but I did find a wonderful French boutique.
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