#109: Defeat Productivity Enemies with This Two-Pronged Attack

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

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

4.6 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

You get to the end of the day, only to realize it wasn’t nearly as productive as you wanted it to be. You got caught responding to urgent requests from others. You spent too long responding to emails. You jumped from task to task as each one entered your mind. How do you defeat these daily interruptions and distractions? What can you do to get on track for a productive last quarter? In this episode, Courtney, Verbs, and Blake walk you through a series of strategies to get the interruptions and distractions under control. You don’t have to let your time get hijacked. You can design your days rather than drifting through them and, in turn, make greater gains toward your goals. In this episode, you’ll discover—The difference between interruptions and distractionsHow to head off others’ interruptions by signaling your unavailabilityWhy you should make an actual list of what distracts youThe value of building regular breaks into your scheduleResources:Focus Mode on iPhoneBrain.fm appFull Focus Planner Community 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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0:55.4	So there's this feeling that I'm sure we have all experienced at one point in our many weeks of the year that you get to the end of the day, only to realize that it wasn't as nearly as productive as you wanted it to be or that you actually needed it to be. Have you felt this?
1:02.1	I thought you were going to say indigestion. And I was like, yeah. Like, yeah, I've been there.
1:09.9	What about it, Verbs, trying to shame me?
1:12.3	Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying we all, you know, we can all get caught up and responding
1:15.5	to urgent requests or from others and get carried away.
1:19.7	I've said this before, but I think a lot of people, when they do get time to do some, like,
1:25.2	deep work or, like, actual work, um, they like squander it via,
1:29.6	you know, responding to whatever's in their email inbox. Because that's just easier.
1:34.6	It's like downhill work. It's a lot easier to do that like monotonous. Okay, let me just reply
1:41.9	this email. Let me just do this next email. Then to like actually do work that's important.
1:48.0	You know, that's really moving the needle forward.
1:50.2	That's hard, you know, like that takes a lot of, a lot of effort.
1:54.3	It takes forethought and, you know, the way that Michael Hyatt, some of you might have heard of him,
1:59.4	but Michael would say it's easier to drift
2:02.2	than it is to design, but it's hard to get to where you want to go if you're just drifting.
2:08.4	And what that looks like when we're working every day is two areas. Interruptions and distractions,
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