431: Align Your Calendar to What Matters, with Nir Eyal

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Nir Eyal: Indistractable Nir Eyal is one of the most respected experts on the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. The MIT Technology Review has called him, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” He previously authored the Wall Street Journal bestseller Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products* which received tremendous traction in the technology and entrepreneurial communities. Now, he’s turned his attention to how we can control our attention in a world of complexity. His new book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life*, challenges some of the traditional misconceptions about distractions. In this conversation, Nir and I discuss the practical steps on how to align your calendar with what matters most. Key Points Being a professional is doing what you say you’re going to do. Most people don’t know what they are going to do. Research shows only a third of Americans keep a daily schedule. If you don’t plan your time, someone else will plan it for you. Look to executive leaders for inspiration on being intentional with time. Move away from the to-do list and instead begin the discipline of timeboxing your calendar. Resources Mentioned Resources Nir mentioned in our conversation Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life* by Nir Eyal Book Notes Download my highlights from Indistractable in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes Getting Things Done, with David Allen (episode 184) How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, with Mark Barden (episode 207) The Way to Stop Spinning Your Wheels on Planning (episode 319) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	Someone once told me if you want to know what's really important to a person you only need look two places
0:07.7	their checkbook register and their calendar on episode, how to align your calendar
0:14.6	with what matters most.
0:16.4	This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 431.
0:20.8	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:27.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:32.6	This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:37.1	Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show helps you discover leadership
0:42.0	wisdom through insightful conversations.
0:45.7	And of course, as leaders, one of our calls not only for ourselves, but for others, is to use our time effectively and on a practical level aligning our
0:56.6	calendar with what matters most not only for ourselves and our careers but of
1:02.1	course for the priorities of the organization
1:04.2	and even though we all know that that's such an important thing for us to do we all
1:09.5	struggle with I know I do on a daily basis a struggle with really making that alignment work for us and for others.
1:16.7	Today our guest is going to help us to really do this effectively someone who has a ton of success in business and in leadership but
1:25.1	also has the research to back up so much of the practical steps he's going to
1:30.4	teach us. I am glad to welcome near A all to the show. Near
1:34.1	rights, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology,
1:39.6	and business. The MIT Technology Review dubbed near the profit of habit-forming
1:45.2	technology. Nere founded two tech companies since 2003 and is taught at the
1:50.2	Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Platter Institute of Design at Stanford.
1:56.3	He is the author of the best-selling book,
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