096: Overcoming Your Distractions with Chris Bailey

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Why is mindfulness so important when it comes to productivity? Today, Chris Bailey & I will be discussing productivity, mindfulness, and his books, The Productivity Project and Hyperfocus. Chris is a productivity expert who speaks to organizations around the globe on how to become more productive without hating the process. We will also be sharing about the importance of taking time to let our minds wander and the benefits that come from that time.

What’s In This Episode:

Why mindfulness is so important for leading productive lives
How we create meaning for our lives through what we focus on
Recognizing the impact the information that we consume has on our happiness
Controlling our attention and eliminating distractions
Being intentional in taking timeouts to deliberately let our attention scatter

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 8 of Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on using productivity not just to do more, but to achieve what's most important to you.
0:11.9	Join Tanya this season as she focuses on planning for success using proven productivity strategies.
0:17.7	To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply go to
0:21.8	inkwellpress.com slash podcast. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone.
0:29.9	Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 96. This season,
0:37.0	we've been talking about planning for success, and that includes
0:40.6	making sure that we're spending our time focusing on what's most important. My guest today,
0:46.3	Chris Bailey, is a productivity expert who has done just that. He speaks to organizations around
0:52.4	the globe on how to become more productive without hating the process.
0:57.0	Chris spent one year where he read everything he could about productivity, participated in experiments, and then wrote about it on his blog,
1:05.0	which then became the focus of his first book, The Productivity Project.
1:09.0	His newest book, Hyperfocus, How to Get More Focused in a World of Distraction, is out now.
1:15.8	So let's go ahead and get started talking with Chris.
1:19.4	Well, Chris, I'm so happy to have you on the show today.
1:22.8	Hey, it's good to be here. How are you?
1:25.2	I'm doing good, doing good.
1:26.6	I'm really excited to introduce my listeners to you because I really enjoyed your book.
1:31.8	And I love the way that you talk about productivity. Mindfulness is one of my very favorite words.
1:37.7	It's one that I use all the time on the show. And your perspective about mindfulness and using it to think about the ways that
1:45.7	we focus definitely shape the content of your newest book, hyperfocus. Why is it that you think
1:51.8	mindfulness is so important? Well, this is a book about managing our attention. And it's
1:57.3	impossible to manage our attention without also practicing mindfulness. And this is something
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