Episode 278: Are You Effective or Just Busy?

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Are you always busy? Are you worried about how effective all this work is? Are you addicted to busyness and need help?

We are here to help you separate the needless hustle from the essential work. It is not always about working smarter than harder, but it is vitally important that you stop chasing your tail and working up a sweat while not making enough progress.

In this episode we talk about to do lists, goal setting, productivity and all the common grounds for growth measurement. A large part of the conversation is spent drawing out the intricacies of these relationships and how you can find your perfect balance of needs, ambitions and obligations to set your ideal goals.

We also talk about affirmation, journalling, reducing attachment and much more so be sure to tune in a get it all in this massive episode!

Key Points From This Episode:

Choosing the right things from your to do list. [0:04:01.2]
Effectiveness often includes busyness. [0:05:32.1]
Reasons why we have methods and practices around productivity. [0:07:02.4]
Winging it, freedom and the converse of over-organized systems. [0:09:57.2]
Over-dedication to the to do list and a lack of perspective. [0:13:17.2]
The Four Tendencies and using your own disposition to your advantage. [0:17:29.8]
Learning to look out for yourself as an entrepreneur. [0:22:19.5]
Prioritizing and managing your to do list according to growth and intuition. [0:25:11.3]
How Chase manages his tendency to wing his way through work. [0:29:50.4]
Relating your spiritual, emotional and professional goals. [0:39:01.2]
The usefulness of journalling and affirmation in maintaining real goals. [0:42:57.1]
Rolling with things as they come, all the way to a platform. [0:49:04.7]
Exploring growth through the tension between our dreams and obligations. [0:53:24.9]
Reducing damaging attachment to results. [0:56:02.2]
Where to start when getting going on your goals. [1:02:32.7]
And much more!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show!
0:08.5	All right!
0:11.9	Steph, don't make that face to me on Skype.
0:14.9	This is the Fizzle Show.
0:17.4	What's up, everybody?
0:19.0	That was me being a little enthusiastic, because sometimes!
0:23.4	Sometimes!
0:25.5	I get a little trogd door, and I get a little burning aiding going on.
0:29.4	What's up, everybody?
0:30.4	What's up, children of the Internet, children of...
0:32.4	And people who aren't children of the Internet, who are learning how to do it.
0:35.9	This is the Fizzle show, because most business ideas fizzle out because most creative
0:40.2	projects fizzle out before they ever see the light of day, let alone you actually make it
0:46.5	past the first little points of success, right?
0:50.5	You know, you get your business idea, you get your creative idea, you get it off the ground,
0:54.3	you have this little moment of success. Now, what do you do? And a lot of people, that's when they
1:00.1	fizzle out, right? What we're here to do is to talk about what makes the difference between the
1:04.4	companies, the ideas, the founders, the entrepreneurs, the indie creatives who survive and last for a long time and those
1:13.4	who don't. And today's episode is no exception. Today we are getting into something that is,
1:19.3	that is, you know, like the last few episodes. I mean, you know, it's the summertime Corbett and
1:24.1	Steph. And a lot of people are slowing down their content schedules.
1:28.0	There's a lot less activity going on.
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