337: Choosing the Important Over the Urgent with Matt Perman
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 23 August 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Matt Perman explains how to tell the difference between important tasks and urgent tasks, and how to make room for what’s important in your life and work.
You’ll Learn:
1) Why you should plan your day with your time, not your tasks
2) Four tips for effective personal management
3) Two ways to prioritize like a pro
About Matt
Matt is co-founder of What’s Best Next, which he started to help people excel in doing good for the world through productive work and God-centered living. Prior to that, he served at Desiring God for 13 years in several different leadership roles, including director of strategy and director of internet ministries, and at Made to Flourish as director of marketing.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Matt’s website: What’s Best Next
- Matt’s book: How to Get Unstuck: Breaking Free from Barriers to Your Productivity
- Book: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
- Book: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- Previous episode: 015: David Allen, The World’s Leading Authority on Productivity
- Tool: OmniFocus
- Book: Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More by Morten Hansen
- Previous episode: 278: The Critical Factors Separating High and Low Performers with Morten Hansen
- Book: ESV Study Bible
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.2 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 337 |
| 0:22.2 | with Matt Perman. |
| 0:23.2 | Matt is talking productivity and self-management to that good stuff, |
| 0:27.2 | and he's coming at it from an interesting perspective |
| 0:29.4 | from Bible scripture Christian perspective, |
| 0:32.6 | so you'll see what popped up when he viewed it |
| 0:35.1 | from that framework. |
| 0:36.4 | So you'll learn one, why you should play in your day |
| 0:38.4 | with your time and not your tasks. |
| 0:40.4 | Two, four tips for effective personal management, and 3, 2 ways to prioritize like a pro. |
| 0:46.0 | So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced, |
| 0:50.0 | you'll find that over at awesome at your job. com slash Epp 337. |
| 0:53.7 | And while you're there, I hope to check out some of our cool stuff. |
| 0:55.8 | One cool thing I'd point you to is the gold nugget email list. |
| 0:58.9 | So if you wish you could take some notes |
| 1:01.0 | on the cool things guests are saying but your hands are |
| 1:03.7 | tied up you're cooking or driving or running or something well we take those |
| 1:07.5 | notes for you and send them to your email and you also have a nifty archive record of |
| 1:12.3 | all 337 guests and their summary insights exclusive |
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