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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

#75: Time Management

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. ----- Dave and David went through their fan mail and answered an age-old question from Seeking Wisdom listener, Ron: How do you manage your time as CEO? DC talks about his typical day, how and what to prioritize, and his CEO forum. -- Here’s how you can support Seeking Wisdom if you’re a fan of the show: 1. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app. 2. Leave us a five-star review. Here's how: bit.ly/5-Stars-Only. 3. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter. 4. Learn more about Drift at Drift.com.

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Okay.

0:01.0

Ooh. What's that? What's that look like? Woo! Oh my goodness. Big. That's a good one. That's... I don't know if you can show the people. You're going to have to blur that out, but it's the last day of the month here and... The deal is starting to come in? That's legit. That's nice. That's a nice time. right okay times good times good times that's let's just

0:25.6

take a minute from the front because it used to take yeah 60 days to get that oh my means at least

0:32.1

across a Brazilian people all right so so so it's the last day of month There's a lot of distractions in good way going on here at Drift. But, um, you got an email from somebody yesterday, Ron. Uh-huh. What's up, Ron? What's up, Ron? And, uh... See, we listen to a fan, love. We do listen to the family. I don't answer my email, but somehow Ron got through. You know what? For a while, I was like, I respond to everybody.

0:57.0

Yeah.

0:58.0

I'm breaking. I'm breaking. Oh my God. It's bad. It's bad, right? It's bad. Can I have five minutes? I talk about this, 10 minutes. I feel bad because I've said, like, I answered everybody, but I think I've got to graduate one level.

0:55.0

One level.

0:55.7

Yeah.

0:56.0

All right.

0:56.2

Anyway, so Ron emailed you.

0:58.0

Yeah.

0:58.2

And I love this question because it's something we talk about a lot, which is time. And he said, how do you manage your time as CEO? Okay. And I wrote a bunch of notes because there's a million questions I could ask you about this topic. But, no, but being serious, here's the classic thing, what I want to get into the

1:32.7

realness, I want to get into the no fluff. And so let's start here. Tell me what a typical

1:37.9

day for you looks like. Not, I know it goes haywire by 11, right? But like, what is a typical day? Like today you came in and you had what? Good question. So I live, this is complicated. You live far away. I live far away. Yep. But, which is good. It gives me time to decompress coming in. But I'd say, that's what it is. That's what it's called, decompress. So I compressed. I compress on the way in. But I'd say, uh, that's what it is. That's what it's called decompress.

2:02.0

So I, or compress, I compress on the way and compress. And so the way that I deal with each

2:09.1

day is one, I start, I've started earlier and earlier my day. So I get up at like 5, 5.30.

2:14.4

We've talked about that in the past. It gives me more time in the morning. Yep. But then I really live by my schedule at this point. I'm kind of like, I don't, I, I cannot

2:24.3

tell you anything that is happening tomorrow. I barely remember yesterday. And I'm focused on just

2:29.8

the stuff that's on my schedule. And if it's not on my schedule, it doesn't exist. Okay.

2:33.7

But what I'm trying to look at each day is I roughly prioritize in big buckets and we can go

2:39.7

into exact proportions and how we do that of like what's a priority for me.

2:44.9

Marketing is priority for what we do.

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