How To Get Your Focus Back And Stop Procrastinating - Nir Eyal

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Mindvalley

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

‘We now need a new toolkit to help us regain that lost focus and the ability to concentrate.’

At this strange time, we can’t deny that there’s LOTS of things causing us anxiety. Surprisingly, a huge percentage of people voted ‘procrastination’ as one of their biggest concerns. In this Mindvalley Podcast, we’re joined by focus and motivation expert Nir Eyal to give you a helping hand towards productivity with some practical tips you can start using right now.

Listen out for:

The Time Boxing Technique - Deciding what you’re doing and when you’ll be doing it.
How to use The 3 -DDD- Steps to Overcome Distraction - Determine, Decide, Do.
The 10 Minute Rule - Surfing whatever your urge may be before giving into temptation.
Why To-Do Lists may be killing your productivity and what to do instead.

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0:00.0	I need a break let me go watch Netflix or let me go check Facebook or let me just check the news
0:04.9	We never do that for a minute it ends up being 15 20 30 minutes maybe an hour and now we didn't get done what we wanted to get done
0:12.4	I am Mission Lacin Lachiani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.
0:17.0	You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast, where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and thought
0:21.4	leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful
0:24.6	ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit and work.
0:30.0	Number four, get started with this podcast. big news for all of you who have been followed
0:33.7	me for several years.
0:35.1	As you know, my first book was called The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, and it became a runaway
0:40.0	hit.
0:41.0	It hit number one on Amazon globally, as in becoming the number one book in the world
0:45.1	for about five days in 2017.
0:46.9	Thank you to all of you who supported that book.
0:49.7	And because of that, because the code of the extraordinary mind went so far got translated into 25 language
0:56.4	I got my second book offer and my second book is called the Buddha and the
1:00.8	badass and I cannot wait to get it in your hands. Now the Buddha and the badass
1:04.7	explores one of the things I'm most known for and that is how do we bring our
1:09.8	spiritual nature, the power of our mind, into that place which so far seems to shy away from
1:18.6	spirituality and that is the workplace.
1:21.3	You see so many workplaces are obsessed with productivity hacks and
1:24.7	other things to get more done in less time. I believe the ultimate hack is
1:29.9	tapping into your spirit or your soul.
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