How to Beat Interruptions and Distractions: A Free Audio Chapter from Free to Focus
The Double Win
Michael Hyatt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by The Leader Score Assessment, |
| 0:05.0 | a simple tool to evaluate the health of your leadership. |
| 0:08.0 | Find out more at lead to.win slash leader score. |
| 0:21.0 | Hi, I'm Megan Hyatt Miller and welcome to this bonus episode of lead to win. We are so excited that my dad's latest book, Free to Focus, has hit four of the major |
| 0:27.1 | national bestseller list. That includes jumping to number one on the Wall Street |
| 0:31.4 | journal bestseller list for business and number one on the |
| 0:34.4 | Amazon.com list for personal time management. |
| 0:38.0 | The Word is spreading fast about free to focus and I think it's because this is not just a collection of tips and tricks to pack more work into a day. |
| 0:47.0 | It's a total productivity system to achieve more by doing less. |
| 0:52.0 | We're so excited about it that we've decided to release another |
| 0:55.3 | chapter from the audiobook in this bonus episode. The chapter is called |
| 0:59.8 | activate and it's all about beating interruptions and distractions so that you can |
| 1:04.3 | focus on what matters most. I know you're going to enjoy it. And if you want to |
| 1:09.7 | grab the entire audio book or buy a hard copy just visit free to focus book.com. |
| 1:15.3 | Now here's chapter 9 from free to focus activate. Chapter 9, activate, activate, beat interruptions and distractions. |
| 1:29.9 | My experience is what I agree to attend to, William James. |
| 1:34.0 | Eccentric magazine publisher and inventor, Hugo Gernsbach, was troubled. |
| 1:39.0 | Even in 1925, there were so many workplace distractions it seemed impossible to get anything done. |
| 1:44.8 | To solve the problem he suggested a new device called the isolator. |
| 1:49.6 | Resembling a large divers helmet the isolator would block the clickity clack of office equipment, |
| 1:55.0 | the ringing of phones and door chimes, and the chatter of coworkers. |
| 1:59.0 | Through two small eye holes, a person could focus solely on the work in front of him and nothing else, |
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