Make Time with John Zeratsky

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever thought about choosing your goal for the day from the very get-go when you wake up? Think about this for a second, what if you started your day by planning what you want to be the highlight, and then worked backward to make sure it happened? That’s one of the things that today’s guest, John Zeratsky, shared in this episode. John is the co-author of Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day. He shares his wisdom on not living our life by default, and how things, like the busy bandwagon and infinity pulls, are tugging away at our attention. He explores what he’s learned over the years about productivity optimization, and how he uses the four-step structure of Highlights, Laser, Energy, and Reflect to help build his day.

What’s In This Episode:

The negative consequences of the busy bandwagon

John’s four-step structure of Highlights, Laser, Energy and Reflect

Three strategies for selecting a highlight to concentrate on

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on using productivity not just to do more, but to achieve what's truly important to you. And this season is all about you, U2.0. To learn more about yourself, take Tanya's free quiz and discover your own productivity style at tanya Dalton.com.
0:23.6	And now get ready. Here's your host, Tanya Dalton.
0:27.6	Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 167.
0:36.6	So let me start off this episode by telling you, I totally lied to you last week.
0:42.3	Okay, technically I didn't lie, but I've changed my mind.
0:47.0	Because last week at the end of the show, I told you that this week we were going to be talking about grit and willpower.
0:53.6	And after I recorded that episode,
0:56.2	I had the most amazing conversation and interview with John Zoratsky. And in having this
1:03.3	conversation with him and talking about his book, which is called Make Time, I thought,
1:08.0	you know what? This fits so well with what we talked about in last week's
1:13.5	episode, 166, about quitting and constraints and how that makes you more productive. And I thought,
1:18.9	you know what? We're going to switch things up. You know why? Because we can. So instead of
1:24.9	talking about grit and willpower this week, we are going to be talking to
1:29.0	John Zoratsky.
1:30.2	So that episode on grit and willpower will shift to next week.
1:34.1	Let's dive into this, though.
1:35.9	Let's talk to John because I feel like he has so many great insights as to how you do create
1:43.1	and make more time through constraints, through not living our life
1:47.5	on default as he calls it. So I don't want to get too much into what he talks about because I want
1:52.1	you to hear it from him. But let me first give you a little bit of insight into who he is.
1:56.4	John Zoreski is a veteran technology designer, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of Sprint,
2:02.0	and make time how to focus on what matters every day. His writing has been published in the
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