282: Become More Productive

Age Less / Live More

Lucas Rockwood

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

I'm often praised for my productivity. I have two kids, three businesses, 28 staff, and a hectic travel schedule. So how do I manage to get it all done? To be honest, I'm not sure I do. Work-life balance is not something I pretend to know anything about because in order to keep the wheels on the bus, I have to selectively neglect major chunks of life.

Everything comes at a cost, including a super-productive life.

I share with you my experience because most-everyone I know wants to become more productive. We want to get more done in less time, reach our goals quickly, and become creative output machines. But why? And what are you really building? And do you understand yourself enough to make that happen?

On this week's Yoga Talk Show, we're going to explore productivity: how it works, how to cultivate it, and why it should (or should not) be a priority. There is no one-size fits all solution, but there are small, foundational actions you can take to get more done and hopefully not exploded your life in the process.

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Listen & Learn:

How to increase energy by focusing on the fundamentals of health: sleep, nutrition and exercise
How Chris' wacky lifestyle experiments gave him insight into human behavior and productivity
Why time deadlines and external pressure can be great motivators for highly productive days
How to ensure you're doing your work rather than doing unpaid work for social media websites like Facebook and Instagram
The importance of having a reason "why" in order to be productive

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Chris Bailey turned down two job offers after graduating from university and spent a full year exploring the study of productivity. His research included living in total isolation for 10 days, only using his cell phone for an hour a day, waking up at 5:30am every morning, and working 90-hour weeks. His work has received national and international media attention from outlets like The New York Times, Lifehacker, Fast Company, Fortune, and New York Magazine among others. His book: The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy is available on Amazon.

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0:00.0	People often ask me how I've managed to make a career as a yoga teacher.
0:04.0	It sounds like an oxymoron, like it's impossible to support yourself long term as a yoga teacher.
0:09.0	But the reality is the yoga market's really changed dramatically since I started back in 2003.
0:13.3	When I started teaching yoga, the only thing yoga teachers did was 90 minute classes in yoga
0:17.7	studios.
0:18.7	And these days, yoga teachers, my graduates, my trainings, they're all over the place.
0:22.2	They're teaching in schools place they're teaching in
0:22.6	schools or teaching privately they are working in conjunction with
0:26.2	chiropractors massage therapists they're leading retreats and workshops and they're
0:31.4	doing really well there's lots and lots of opportunities. The
0:33.8	markets really exploded. Yoga's gone mainstream, which if you're a yoga teacher is a
0:37.5	really great thing. At the yoga teachers college we are on the cutting edge of
0:41.5	progressive future focus yoga training which means we train you not just in fitness focused
0:47.4	vignasi yoga but also in anatomy physiology in business skills in marketing and everything you really need to be a
0:54.1	successful professional in the landscape of today's yoga teaching which is
0:59.0	much much better when I first started. We're accepting applications for 2018 to learn more go to
1:04.0	yoga teachers college.com.
1:07.0	My whole life I've been really fascinated with lifestyle experiments.
1:18.0	Things like quitting drinking, drinking a lot, things like eating specific diets, playing around with exercise regimes, sleep patterns,
1:25.6	different ways of meditation or breathing, just literally mixing up your life to see what happens.
1:31.2	It always surprises me how many people do the exact same thing day in and
1:35.2	day out. Many people eat the same breakfast they've been eating for 20 years. Some people eat the
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