#751 - Distracted Coach Creates Accountability Software
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Recognizing his own need for accountability, an executive coach develops a tool to allow people who work alone to overcome procrastination.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up my friends? Welcome to a brand new week. I'm so excited. Lots of fun stuff |
| 0:13.0 | is in the mix including the relaunch of the cytosol society. This has been long in the |
| 0:17.3 | work something like nine months. I believe and I'm really excited to share that with you |
| 0:21.4 | very soon. But hey, this is the episode. This is the regular episode. So let's talk about |
| 0:25.4 | overcoming distractions. Do you ever find yourself unfocused or unable to complete the things |
| 0:29.9 | you need done? Well, join the club. I have struggled with procrastination for a long |
| 0:34.1 | time. I was finally going to do something about it today, but then I decided, well, I'll |
| 0:37.6 | just put it off until tomorrow. Like there's time, right? Okay, but seriously, I have previously |
| 0:41.9 | mentioned on the show a couple things I do to stay on track. Most of my solutions are self-managed. |
| 0:46.8 | I tend to use timers and work from a task list so I don't get too distracted. But what if |
| 0:50.9 | you need some kind of outer accountability to stay productive and avoid distractions? |
| 0:55.4 | That's what our story is about today. A distracted executive coach who creates accountability |
| 0:59.5 | software, recognizing his own need for accountability. This coach develops a tool to allow those who |
| 1:04.4 | work alone to overcome procrastination. It's a really fun tool and resource I had not |
| 1:08.9 | seen it myself before. And I think it's going to help a lot of people. So stay tuned for |
| 1:12.9 | that story. |
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| 1:20.0 | Cadets. What are those pulses indicate? The beeps and blips we don't know. There's an |
| 1:24.3 | alien that actually happened. This June, place all witnesses under a group arrest. How long |
| 1:29.9 | can they keep us in Asteroid City? I'm in O'Hurry. I like aliens. |
| 1:33.9 | Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks. What a strange experience this is. Asteroid |
| 1:40.1 | City in cinemas June 23. Booktickets now. |
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