Welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Helen, one of your hosts and this episode is part of a special series that Sarah and I have created to bring to life some of the ideas and insights in our new book, You Coach You. In this series of six episodes all coming out in January, we'll be talking to experts to get their thoughts on how we can

help ourselves through some of the notier moments in a squiggly career. And that might be

coping with a challenging relationship at work or when you feel like your progress is stalled,

or maybe how you figure out how to find more meaning in your job. Every episode relates to a

chapter and you coach you and today

we're going to focus on our time chapter and specifically the distractions that can be our

downfalls. You'll hear me talking to Nia Eao, author of Indistractable, about how we can manage our

attention and ensure that we find our focus at work.

So here is what Nea had to say about why this is such an important area to coach yourself on in work today.

This is the defining skill of the century because there's no area of your life that is not affected

by your ability to decide how you want to spend your time and how you want to spend your attention.

And so whether it's your physical health, whether it's your mental health, whether it's

your relationships.

And of course, when it comes to your work and your career, all of these domains of life

require us to be able to decide what we want

to do and carry out that goal because it doesn't matter what kind of ambitions we have, whether

it's to read more books or to exercise or to spend more time with our family or to be more

productive in our careers. If we can't follow through, if we don't do what we say we're going

to do, we're not going

to live the kind of life we know we deserve. And so that's why this is really the skill of century,

because in this day and age, it's no longer about knowing what to do. We all basically know

what to do. Who doesn't know how to lose weight and eat right? We know. Everybody knows basically

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