How To Get Sh*t Done Without Being Busy

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Episode 569: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) get into being productive without being a slave to your calendar. How to disable distractions, being effective vs being efficient, and living the unscheduled life. Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5 — Show Notes: (0:00) The joy of an unscheduled life (01:56) Maker vs manager schedule (02:32) Working in intentional spaces (04:59) Living without a to-do list (05:27) Reverse engineer your ideal day (8:26) "Show me your calendar and I'll show you your priorities" (09:19) Name your top 3 (quarterly) (12:56) Disable distractions (13:33) Be effective, not efficient (14:55) Do the big thing first (16:30) No loser works out at 7:00 am (17:47) The barbell strategy for building relationships (20:17) No as a default mode (21:04) Accepting the trade-offs — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0	All right, Sean, you tweeted something that has made me incredibly envious of you.
0:04.3	You said the joy of living an unscheduled life, and it kind of pissed me off because I want that.
0:10.1	And I know that you got a lot of messages.
0:11.5	One of our friend emailed you and said something like,
0:13.5	dude, how on earth do you have this unscheduled life?
0:16.5	And so I actually have the same question.
0:18.0	I want to spend this episode actually asking you all about it.
0:20.3	Tell me everything about this unscheduled life.
0:22.0	I need to know how you can get so much done by having nothing on your calendar.
0:27.0	I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to.
0:32.0	I put my all in it like no days off on the road.
0:35.0	Well, let's do a definition.
0:37.0	So what is, what do I mean when I say the unscheduled life?
0:40.0	The unscheduled life, all it means is this.
0:42.0	Today, or right now even, next hour, you were going to do a
0:47.8	most important or interesting thing to you right now, not what you thought might be the most important thing two weeks ago when somebody put something on your calendar.
0:56.5	Because that's how I used to live, right? I used to wake up and look at what's on my calendar. And it's like,
1:01.7	wait, wait, wait, wait, why is the calendar in charge and where
1:04.4	did this even come from oh this is a meeting I agreed to two weeks ago or this is a
1:08.2	recurring one-on-one with this person but it's not necessarily the thing that I actually think I should be investing my time and my energy into.
1:15.8	It's not where my brain is. It's not what I have inspiration on. It's not the most important thing.
1:20.7	So what I did was I just went to my calendar and I just
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