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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

339: Achieving Hyperfocus with Chris Bailey

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Chris Bailey looks into how distraction affects productivity and the many ways you can prevent yourself from getting distracted ahead of time.   You'll Learn: Ways to hack your procrastination triggers How much time we waste on checking emails The 20-second rule and three ways to apply it to your  distractions   About Chris: Chris Bailey is a productivity expert, and the international bestselling author of The Productivity Project, which has been published in eleven languages. His next book, Hyperfocus, came out yesterday. Chris writes about productivity at Alifeofproductivity.com, and speaks to organizations around the globe on how they can become more productive, without hating the process.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep339 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

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.

0:20.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 339 with Chris Bailey.

0:23.6

I think you'll love this chat with Chris because well Chris is just a lot of fun.

0:26.7

He's a funny quirky dude and I just you know resonate with his his energy and

0:31.4

flowing vibe and I think you will too because he just brings a lot of

0:34.6

passion enthusiasm thoroughness and humor to the topic of productivity and he's

0:41.4

fresh off a bundle of research for a new book.

0:44.0

So you'll learn one, ways to hack your procrastination triggers.

0:47.2

Two, just how much time we waste on checking email and three, the 22nd rule and three

0:52.1

ways to apply it to your distractions.

0:54.5

So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced,

0:58.2

you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash F-339.

1:01.6

Now here's Chris's Scoop. Chris Bailey is a productivity expert and the

1:05.6

international best-selling author of the productivity project which has been

1:09.3

published in 11 languages. His next book, Hyper Focus, came out yesterday. If you're listening to this at the day of release,

1:16.0

and Chris writes about productivity at a life of productivity.com and speaks to organizations around the globe on how they can become more productive without

1:24.8

hating the process.

1:25.8

Thanks to Chris for taking some time to chat and thanks to our sponsors.

1:29.4

Check him out.

1:31.8

Here is Chris. Chris, welcome back to the How Do We All Sm at Your Job Podcast.

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