#450: How to Make Time For What Really Matters Every Day [RE-BROADCAST]
The Art of Manliness
The Art of Manliness
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🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This is a re-broadcast. The episode originally ran in October 2018.
Do your days seem like a continuous blur of busyness, and yet you don’t seem to get much done, nor remember much about how you spent your time?
As a former employee of Google, my guest today worked on the very apps and technology that can often suck away our time. Today, he’s dedicated to figuring out how to push back against these forces to help people take control of their time and attention.
His name is John Zeratsky and he’s the co-author of the book Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day. Today on the show, John shares how the experience of feeling like he was missing months of his life led him to spending years experimenting with his habits and routines, looking for the best ways to to optimize energy, focus, and time. He then shares the simple 4-step daily framework that developed from this research and walks us through that system. John talks about choosing one “highlight” each day to ensure your most important work gets done and that your life is full of memorable moments. He also shares how to reduce the time you spend wading in what he calls “infinity pools,” why energy management is just as important as time management, and how reflection is essential in figuring out if what you’re doing is working.
Lots of valuable direction in this show for how to get your life on track and find more hours and meaning in the day.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Brett here. We're taking a quick break. We'll be back with a new episode on Wednesday. |
| 0:04.0 | But in the meantime, here's a rebroadcast of podcast number 450, |
| 0:07.2 | how to make time for what really matters every day with author John Ziratsky. |
| 0:10.8 | So one of our most popular episodes in 2018, it's if you feel like your life is just sort of a busy blur |
| 0:16.0 | and you feel like you're not getting much done, this episode has a lot of insights to help you. |
| 0:20.0 | First, want to get more stuff, more important stuff done, but second and more importantly, |
| 0:23.5 | make it feel like your life is full of memorable moments. |
| 0:26.5 | Hope you enjoy this episode. See you on Wednesday with a new episode. |
| 0:30.0 | Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast. Your day seemed like a continuous blur of busyness. |
| 0:50.1 | And yet you don't seem to get much done, nor remember much about how you spend your time. |
| 0:53.7 | I was a former employee of Google, my guest day worked on the very apps and technology that can often suck away at time. |
| 0:59.0 | Today, he's dedicated to figuring out how to push back against these forces to help people take control of their time and attention. |
| 1:04.5 | His name is John Ziratsky and he's the co-author of the book Make Time, How to Focus on What Matters Every Day. |
| 1:09.7 | Today on the show, John shares how the experience of feeling like he was missing months of his life |
| 1:13.6 | led to him spending years experimenting with habits and routines, looking for the best ways to optimize energy, focus and time. |
| 1:19.2 | He then shares the simple, four-step, daily framework that he developed from this research |
| 1:22.8 | and walks us through that system. John talks about choosing one highlight each day to ensure your most important work gets done |
| 1:28.1 | and that your life is full of memorable moments. He also shares how to reduce the time you spend in waiting what he calls infinity pools. |
| 1:34.0 | Why energy management is just as important as time management, and how reflection is essential in figuring out what you're doing is actually working. |
| 1:40.9 | Lots of valuable direction in this show for you to get your life on track and find more hours of meaning in the day. |
| 1:45.8 | Adverbs over, check out our show notes at a-wim.is slash make time. |
| 1:58.9 | John Zratsky, welcome to the show. |
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