572: How Morning Practices Like Savoring and Investing in Calm Boost Productivity with Chris Bailey

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🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Productivity THOUGHT LEADER(!) Chris Bailey shares how investing in your calm can boost your productivity and how savoring the little things every day can help you start your day right.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How calm provides the greatest return on productivity

2) Why you shouldn’t feel guilty over being less productive now

3) How and why to savor

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— ABOUT CHRIS —

Chris Bailey is a productivity expert, and the international bestselling author of Hyperfocus and The Productivity Project—which have been published in seventeen languages. 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. To date, he has written hundreds of articles on the subject of productivity, and has garnered coverage in media as diverse as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, The Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, GQ, TED, Fortune, Fast Company, and Lifehacker.

• Book: Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction

• Book: The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy

• Podcast: Becoming Better

• Website: A Life of Productivity

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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.
0:16.0	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 572 with Chris Bailey. We've had Chris on the show before because for
0:25.0	the year for episode 572 with Chris Bailey. We've had Chris on the show before because he is a boatload of fun.
0:27.0	He is a productivity thought leader, which was a recurring joke in this episode.
0:32.0	It's just fun to call him that because he doesn't like it.
0:35.4	Who has some pro tips on how investing in your calm and savoring can make a world of difference in boosting your productivity.
0:42.8	So you'll learn one, how calm provides the greatest return on productivity.
0:46.8	Two, why you shouldn't feel guilty over being less productive right now.
0:50.8	And three, how and why to savor her so if you want to check out the show
0:54.3	notes of the transcript or the links to as we've referenced you could expand your
0:57.5	episode notes or description in your current podcast at player if they're not quite
1:01.8	clickable which happens sometimes bummer
1:04.4	visit awesome at your job dot com slash EP five seven two and you can click those
1:09.8	resources all the more readily now here's Chris here's Chris Bailey is a productivity
1:14.4	expert and dare I say thought leader and the international best-selling author of
1:18.6	hyper-focus and the productivity project which have been published in
1:21.9	17 languages Chris writes about
1:24.0	productivity at a life of productivity.com and speaks to organizations around the
1:28.6	globe on how they can become more productive without hating the process. To date he has written hundreds of articles on the subject of productivity and has garnered coverage in media as diverse as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, the Huffington Post Post Harvard Business Review,
1:43.1	GQ Ted Fortune, Fast Company, and Life Hacker.
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