Ep. 261: John Zeratsky on Making Time
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week we're talking about time management. But wait! I know you *think* you've heard everything there is to hear about how to get more done and optimize your time! But my guest, writer, speaker, and designer John Zeratsky is going to shake up your whole world when it comes to the question of how much time do you have *and* how are you spending it.
In this episode, John and I talk about what to do when you're "losing" time, how to get yourself out of the busy-filled cycles so many of us exist in, how to let things go AND STILL get things done (because we aren't trying to throw our ambition baby out with the bathwater!) and how to figure out a system that works for YOU and allows you to focus on what matters most to YOU. (Yes. Those capital YOU's matter because this isn't about following someone else's prescription of How To Do Everything.)
Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!!
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| 0:00.0 | I always suggest that people start with something really small and to think of everything |
| 0:08.1 | that they're going to try as being an experiment and to just try it for a day or just try |
| 0:12.4 | it for a week and see how it goes. |
| 0:14.5 | And I think even the most distracted busiest people, they can identify, you know, one app, for example, |
| 0:25.2 | that kind of sucks up their time, that thing where, you know, you go for a quick check and |
| 0:31.1 | then 30 minutes later, you're like, wait a second, what happened? |
| 0:34.5 | And you're like, what did it was Eric Litch in the Matrix? |
| 0:37.0 | Because I don't recall that time. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah, we call it those distraction kryptonite. |
| 0:43.4 | Welcome back to raise your hands say yes with life coach Tiffany Hahn. This is a podcast that is all |
| 0:48.7 | about teaching smart, ambitious women, how to raise their hands and say yes to all of those things |
| 0:53.3 | they want to do, |
| 0:59.5 | be and say without compromising their standards or their sanity. For more information, go to Tiffany Hahn.com and now on to the show. Hey, hey everyone, it's Tiffany. Welcome back to |
| 1:06.2 | another episode of Raise Your Hand Say Yes. I am super excited about this interview. I am interviewing |
| 1:14.4 | John Zoratsky and John is an author and a designer and a speaker and he co-authored two books, |
| 1:24.1 | one of which is I think the best time management book that I've ever read. And I have read |
| 1:30.1 | a lot of time management books. And this book is called Make Time, How to Focus on What Matters |
| 1:35.7 | Every Day. And that was what I wanted to talk with John about today. His other book is called |
| 1:42.2 | Sprint, How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in |
| 1:45.0 | Just Five Days, based on a process that he developed with his co-author, Jake Knapp, at Google Ventures, |
| 1:54.0 | that has been used by so many tech companies and also so many people and businesses |
| 2:00.8 | kind of across the world who want to figure |
| 2:03.9 | out how to solve the most important problems quickly. And part of what John is really, really |
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