John Zeratsky on Making Time Each Day for What Matters

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Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Self-improvement, Buddhism, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Education

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🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

After a career as a designer in the tech industry, John Zeratsky became obsessed with the idea of re-designing time. He’s a writer who has written multiple books and his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Fast Company, and many others. In this episode, among other things, we discuss his newest book, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day. Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year. But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you !n This Interview, John Zeratsky and I Discuss… His book, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day Understanding the limits on will-power Setting up our world around us so it’s easier to make the right decisions Creating more time in your day for the things you care about The two powerful forces that compete every day for our time “The Busy Bandwagon” The Infinity Pools Questioning the “defaults” in our schedule Creating a highlight for every day Living a “someday” life Finding more meaningful moments Urgency, Satisfaction, Joy Batch the little stuff Laser mode Taking back control of your time and energy Creating barriers to distraction Managing your energy Building your energy Focusing on the process not the outcome John Zeratsky Links Homepage Twitter The Great Sources Plus gives in-depth knowledge on a variety of topics like psychology, science, philosophy, cooking, photography and more. Watch or listen to a course whenever, wherever for FREE. To start your free trial now go to www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/wolf Calm- The number one app that helps you meditate, sleep and relax. For a limited time, get 25% off a Calm premium subscription – giving you access to ALL their content – at www.calm.com/wolf See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, a brief reminder, if you need help accomplishing your goals in 2019, the
0:05.8	One You Feed Transformation Program can help.
0:08.6	It's a chance to work one-on-one with Eric, and the coaching is done over the phone or
0:12.7	by Skype, thereby minimizing your exposure to his chronic allotosis.
0:19.2	Go to OneYouFeed.net slash transform for more information.
0:23.5	Again, that's OneYouFeed.net slash transform.
0:27.6	The expectation that when we receive an email, we're going to see it right away, we're
0:31.4	going to respond to it right away, we're going to stay on top of things.
0:34.2	That level of responsiveness doesn't really fit with the way that humans evolved.
0:48.2	Welcome to The One You Feed.
0:50.2	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes
0:54.8	like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many
1:01.2	of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
1:04.5	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
1:09.2	We see what we don't have instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and
1:13.8	dampen our spirit.
1:15.6	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
1:19.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
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