Episode 300- Finishing What Matters Most: How To Make The Most Out Of Your Time And Attention With Productivity Expert Charlie Gilkey
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Author, podcaster and entrepreneur, Charlie Gilkey, joins the podcast to shed light on what it really means to make the most out of your time and hone in on what you should focus your attention on.
Charlie is founder of Productive Flourishing, a website that helps creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs start finishing the stuff that matters. He's written several books, including an award-winning book, "Start Finishing: How to Go From Idea to Done," and has been featured in Time, the Washington Post, the New York Times and more.
We talk about the four different blocks of time, the reality and advantages of not doing "it all," how to manage time as a neurodivergent identifying person, getting back control over our priorities and rebelling against rigid schedules.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why attention is actually more valuable than time
- The difference between freedom from and freedom to
- How to implement the rule "No more than five active projects per time perspective."
- Acceptable loss, honoring your priorities, headtrash + centering yourself
- Avoiding the slippery slope of putting too much time, energy and attention on the economic and career projects in our lives + more
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| 0:00.0 | What happens when we embrace that constraint and say, hey, this is the time I have. |
| 0:08.9 | This is what I'm going to fund, because if I fund those things, it helps me create |
| 0:14.5 | the type of life and work that I want to be doing in the future and maybe, just maybe, |
| 0:22.2 | I can enjoy it now because I'm not stressed out trying to multitask and do a gazillion things |
| 0:27.6 | and end up nowhere, not really getting anywhere. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host, Jamila Sufront, as a money expert |
| 0:39.2 | who rocks her top. |
| 0:40.7 | She helps brave juniors like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:47.8 | Join her on the Journey to Launch to Financial Freedom in 5-on-4-3-2-1. |
| 0:57.6 | If you want the episode show notes for this episode, go to journeytolange.com or click |
| 1:06.4 | the description of wherever you're listening to this episode. |
| 1:09.6 | In the show notes, you'll get the transcribed version of the conversation, the links that |
| 1:14.6 | we mentioned, and so much more. |
| 1:16.8 | Also, whether you are an OG, Jr. or brand new to the podcast, I've created a free jump |
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| 1:26.3 | It includes the top episodes, still listen to, stages to go through to reach financial |
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| 1:38.4 | Okay, let's hop into the episode. |
| 1:40.4 | Hey, journeyers, so welcome to this important episode of the Journey to Launch Podcast. |
| 1:48.6 | It's important because we're going to be talking about a resource and managing a resource |
| 1:53.2 | that is actually, I believe, more valuable than money and that's time. |
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