368: Upgrading Your Productivity through Accountability with Focusmate’s Taylor Jacobson

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🗓️ 9 November 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Focusmate founder and CEO Taylor Jacobson breaks down how tribal psychology and accountability work partners can do wonders for your work and life. You'll Learn: The biggest distraction drivers in the workplace Four streamlined to-do list hacks Why NOT to rely on willpower About Taylor: Taylor is the founder and CEO of Focusmate building productivity software that works when nothing else will. He's a trained executive coach with clients like Yale, Cornell, and Wharton, a wannabe adventurer and a recovering pizza addict turned holistic health aspirant. For transcript , links, and shownotes, visit www.awesomeatyourjob.com/ep368. 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.
0:17.0	Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode
0:21.0	368 with you because Taylor
0:26.3	has got something magical in terms of if you've ever wished you could buckle down
0:31.8	and get her done but you've been wished you could buckle down and get or done but you've been
0:33.3	distracted you get pushed into other things and you just can't seem to find that
0:37.4	willpower discipline it's missing. Taylor's got a real cool tool and some
0:42.1	psychology behind it to share with you. So we're going to learn one. The biggest distraction drivers in the workplace, two, some streamlined to-do list hacks, and three, why not to rely on willpower? So if you'd like to take a look at the
0:54.6	show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced you'll find
0:57.6	it over at awesome at your job.com slash F three six eight.
1:00.3	Now here's Taylor's story Taylor Jacob said is the founder and CEO of Focus Mate,
1:04.6	building productivity software that works when nothing else will. He's a trained executive
1:08.7	coach with clients like Yale, Cornell, and Wharton, a wannabe adventurer, and a recovery pizza addict turned to holistic health
1:14.4	aspirant. His work has been featured in CNN, GQ, the Huffington Post, Men's Health,
1:18.8	and more. Thanks to Taylor for spending some time with us and thanks to our sponsors. Check them out.
1:24.0	Now here's Taylor. Taylor thanks so much for joining us here on the How to
1:28.8	Be Awesome at your Job Podcast. Thanks for having me Pete.
1:31.4	Excited to be here. Oh me too.
1:33.0	And I want to get your take first of all about your 3,000 mile bicycle ride.
1:38.0	Yeah, fun story.
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