Pat Flynn on How Failures Help You Reach Your Goals
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2012
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Getting laid off was the best thing that ever happened to Pat Flynn. Without his 9 to 5 job holding him back, he’s been able to earn more money and work less (and more flexible) hours, with Smart Passive Income, which allows him to be home and spend time with his family. If you’re already doing business online, Pat’s experiences – both his wins and his failures – can help you reach your goals.
Covered in this episode:
- Smart Passive Income – What is it?
- Passive income vs. Smart Passive Income
- Why is it appealing?
- How to get started
- The one thing Pat is selfish about
- Work life balance
- Having a Home office
- Priorities
- Work mode
- Interruptions
- Get back into work mode
- 9-5 time
- New kid at home
- Evernote
- Difference between 1st and 2nd kid
- Kindle eBook
- Date night Thursdays
- Crabs in a bucket
- Surround yourself with inspiring people
- Ask for help
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| 0:00.0 | When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. |
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| 0:15.6 | through LinkedIn jobs and by far it has been the easiest way for me to find viable candidates fast. |
| 0:22.5 | And LinkedIn isn't just a job board. |
| 0:24.2 | LinkedIn helps you hire professionals you can't find anywhere else because even those who |
| 0:28.3 | aren't actively searching for a new job might be open to the perfect role that you have. |
| 0:33.2 | In any given month, over 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit other leading job sites. |
| 0:38.3 | So if you're not looking on LinkedIn, you're looking in the wrong place. |
| 0:41.9 | On LinkedIn, 86% of small businesses get qualified |
| 0:45.0 | candidates within 24 hours. Hire professionals like a professional on LinkedIn. |
| 0:50.8 | LinkedIn knows that small businesses are wearing so many hats and might not have the time or resources to hire. |
| 0:56.0 | LinkedIn is constantly finding ways to make the process easier. |
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| 1:02.0 | making the process even easier and quicker. |
| 1:04.6 | Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com. |
| 1:06.6 | That's LinkedIn.com. |
| 1:09.6 | referral to post your job for free. Hello and welcome again to another episode of Beyond the To-Do List. |
| 1:36.4 | I'm your host Eric Fisher. |
| 1:38.6 | This week I have an awesome interview with Pat Flynn of smart passive income. He's going to talk to |
| 1:46.6 | us a little bit about what passive income is as well as how he does it smart. |
| 1:50.8 | That's pretty basic, isn't it? Now what he's really going to talk about |
| 1:54.1 | is what that is as well as how he keeps his priority, his family, first in his hectic |
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