Chris Bailey on Time, Energy and Attention
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
For exactly one year, May 1st, 2013 – May 1, 2014, Chris Bailey of ‘A Year of Productivity’ and ‘A Life of Productivity’ ran productivity experiments on himself. In this episode, he and Erik talk about some of the findings he had from those experiments, such as:
- Meditating for 35 hours over 7 days
- Watching 70 hours of TED Talks in a week
- Using a smartphone for only 60 minutes a day for 3 months
- Working 90 hour workweeks
- and more
Tweetable quotes from this episode:
- [tweetable]When you bring more of yourself to what you’re doing, you can dive into it deeper and do it a lot better.[/tweetable]
- [tweetable]Intention behind your actions is like wood behind an arrow.[/tweetable]
- [tweetable]Meditation trains your attention muscle to dedicate more attention to whatever you want to do in the moment.[/tweetable]
- [tweetable]You know how you know if something’s important? If you’ve done it already.[/tweetable]
- [tweetable]Just because you feel productive, doesn’t mean you’re actually productive.[/tweetable]
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| 0:00.0 | When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. |
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| 0:15.1 | looking through LinkedIn jobs and by far it has been the easiest way for me to find viable |
| 0:21.2 | candidates fast. |
| 0:22.5 | And LinkedIn isn't just a job board. |
| 0:24.2 | LinkedIn helps you hire professionals |
| 0:25.9 | you can't find anywhere else because even those who aren't |
| 0:28.6 | actively searching for a new job might be open |
| 0:31.0 | to the perfect role that you have. |
| 0:33.0 | In any given month, over 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit other leading job sites. |
| 0:38.0 | So if you're not looking on LinkedIn, you're looking in the wrong place. |
| 0:41.0 | On LinkedIn, 86% of small businesses get qualified |
| 0:45.0 | candidates within 24 hours. Hire professionals like a professional on LinkedIn. |
| 0:50.8 | LinkedIn knows that small businesses are wearing so many hats and might not have the time or resources to hire. |
| 0:55.6 | LinkedIn is constantly finding ways to make the process easier. |
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| 1:01.8 | making the process even easier and quicker. |
| 1:04.5 | Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com. |
| 1:06.6 | referral that's LinkedIn.com slash referral to post your job for free. Hello and welcome back to Beyond the To Do List, the podcast where we talk to the people behind the |
| 1:36.9 | productivity. |
| 1:38.2 | This week I'm talking to Chris Bailey of a year of productivity and a life of productivity. |
| 1:44.0 | You're going to be amazed by all the different productivity experiments |
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