How to Have the Most Productive Year Ever with Amir Salihefendic (Doist)
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Jesse chats with Amir Salihefendic, CEO of Doist, the company behind the popular productivity tool Todoist. Between running a company and being a father, Amir has a very busy life. He explains how he keeps everything moving smoothly, including the importance of managing your energy throughout the day, not just your schedule.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Jesse Mickey and this is podcast number 468 for wine and where we teach |
| 0:10.0 | you four rules to help you stop if you pay check to paycheck, get out of debt and save |
| 0:13.4 | more money. |
| 0:14.9 | Today I'm pleased to tell you that we have the CEO from ToDoist and he and I, he's coming |
| 0:20.6 | from Barcelona, Spain actually and he and I got together over Zoom and we had a chat |
| 0:25.4 | about what it looks like to have well productive year, what it looks like to be productive |
| 0:30.1 | and basically how he and I have pretty similar origin stories solving very difficult problems |
| 0:37.2 | for people. |
| 0:38.5 | So we have a lot of people that struggle with their money and they feel like their money |
| 0:41.9 | just kind of slips to their fingers and everything's reactive and isn't that the same with |
| 0:45.6 | our time? |
| 0:46.6 | Isn't that the same with what a mirror calls our energy and he actually took issue with |
| 0:50.2 | me saying it's time management and he called it energy management which I liked quite |
| 0:54.4 | a bit more. |
| 0:55.6 | So I chat with a mere super casual and he gives us his own routine and kind of how he manages |
| 1:01.2 | things, everything from trusting the system to using the inbox, to having things be quick |
| 1:05.4 | and easy and available, whatever you can as far as being able to just dump ideas and to |
| 1:09.4 | do's and follow-ups. |
| 1:11.2 | We have some big fans of ToDoist here at Wineham and there are also a lot of ToDoist employees |
| 1:15.4 | that are big fans of Wineham so we have this little bit of a cross collaboration going |
| 1:19.8 | on today. |
| 1:21.2 | Without further ado, I'm pleased to bring you my chat with Amir of ToDoist, the makers |
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