#79: How to Escape Inessential Meetings

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Planning, Timemanagement, Education, Organization, Michaelhyatt, Productivity, Business, Achievement, Focus, Worklifebalance, Goals

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🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

When you have too many meetings on your calendar, the week feels like it’s half-gone before it even starts. How can you keep from falling behind on your most important tasks when you don’t have time to do actual work? You don’t want your calendar to run your life. But what’s the alternative? In this episode, Verbs, Blake, and Deidra will show you how to take back your time through the power of auditing your calendar. With plenty of personal examples—including an on-the-spot meeting cancellation of their own—they’ll teach you to determine which meetings to get out of and provide practical strategies for taking back your time. In this episode, you’ll discover— Four clues to help you identify an unnecessary meeting Why monologues and meetings should rarely go together How regularly reevaluating meetings leads to a positive work culture Tips for regaining time on your calendar even when a meeting is necessary Strategies for achieving the goal of a meeting without actually meeting Resources: Want to replace unnecessary meetings with video? We recommend Loom or VidYard. Maximize the effectiveness of your meetings with No-Fail Meetings by Michael Hyatt. This episode of Focus on This is brought to you by our free download: Spring Clean Your To-Do List, a six-step guide to transform towering to-do lists into a trimmed-down list that's actually to-do-able. Download the guide at fullfocusplanner.com/printables. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, what do you think is worse? Living in constant reaction mode or missing the goals that
0:07.6	matter most? Well, what if I told you both problems stem from the same route? And you can actually
0:13.2	fix it, starting now. Join our free training where Michael Hyatt and Marissa Hyatt are going to be talking about rising above
0:22.4	the noise, reclaim your potential and achieve your goals in 2025. It's not just another online
0:28.2	training. This is your chance to make real progress. Spaces are limited, so sign up now
0:34.2	at fullfocus.com forward slash rise.
0:48.4	This episode of Focus on this is brought to you by our free download, Spring Clean, your to-do list,
0:55.6	a six-step guide to transform towering to-do lists into a trim-down list that's actually to-doable.
1:00.4	Download the guide at fullfocusplanter.com slash printables.
1:18.0	Welcome to another episode of Focus on This, the most productive podcast on the internet, so you can banish distractions, get the right stuff done, and finally start Loving Mondays.
1:23.3	I'm Verbs here with Blake Stratton and our special guest, Deidre Romero.
1:25.6	What's up? What's up?
1:30.5	Hello. Wow. Thanks for having me, guys. I'm super excited to be here.
1:32.1	I'm excited to have you, Deidre.
1:37.5	For those of you that have worked with us in the past in our business accelerator program,
1:43.6	you know Deidre as the client success specialist, which is really fun to say five times fast, slash genius slash maker of everything
1:48.1	happening slash hero to clients.
1:52.0	But in the Stratton household, we know Deidre as two things.
1:57.3	A, real fun following, IG, and B, a tremendous baker of sourdough. So, Deidre, welcome.
2:05.8	This is true. Thank you for having me. And honestly, out of all those accolades, I'm probably the
2:10.6	most proud of the sourdough award that you gave me. Because that was a hard fought one, honestly.
2:16.7	It was one of my goals for 2020, and crushed it and it's, yeah, it's become a lifelong
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