Taylor Jacobson on Tools to Find Focus and Accountability
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Taylor Jacobson is the CEO and Founder of Focusmate (www.focusmate.com), a virtual coworking community with a mission to help everyone do their best work. Thousands of people in 193 countries worldwide sit side-by-side, via video, to keep each other company, cheer each other on, and hold one another accountable. Taylor is a passionate voice on creating soulful work and workplaces and has been featured in The New Yorker, CNN, The Guardian, NPR, Fast Company, Bloomberg Businessweek, and more.
In this episode, Eric and Taylor discuss his company, Focusmate, along with many useful ideas for designing the life you want to live.
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!
Taylor Jacobson and I Discuss Tools to Find Focus and Accountability and…
- His company, Focusmate, that he started to help himself and others to become more productive
- The importance of feeling safe in a community in helping to accomplish your goals
- Procrastination is an expression of feeling unsafe
- How it’s difficult to focus when you’re feeling stressed or anxious
- How having a morning routine is grounding and signals our body we’re safe and able to get started
- Designing a life that demands what you want to give
- Noticing when you need to make a shift and reinvent yourself
- The ability to focus and the correlation to our nervous system
- Fight or flight impulses
- Learning to experience and release these energy forces
- His choice to find the optimal environment to do the important inner work he desired
- Spiritual practices and choosing and trusting your inner truth
- Understanding that our experiences inform the gifts that we can give to the world
- How living in fear limits our ability to share our unique gifts
Taylor Jacobson Links:
When you purchase products and/or services from the sponsors of this episode, you help support The One You Feed. Your support is greatly appreciated, thank you!
If you enjoyed this conversation with Taylor Jacobson you might also enjoy these other episodes:
How to Focus and Accomplish Goals with Emily Balcetis
Chris Bailey on Focus, Productivity, and Meditation
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | We don't want to be walking around, you know, getting pissed at every driver on the road. |
| 0:04.0 | That's a really unpleasant way to live. So the antidote to that is like |
| 0:07.9 | learning how to really fully feel and release the depth of those emotions. |
| 0:20.3 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:22.4 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. |
| 0:26.9 | Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:32.5 | And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:36.8 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. |
| 0:41.5 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:44.4 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:47.8 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:49.8 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:51.3 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:55.5 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. |
| 1:00.4 | How they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:17.1 | Where were you in 92 bouncing your butt to Sir Mixlot? |
| 1:19.9 | Wondering if you, like Billy Ray Cyrus, could pull off a moment? |
| 1:22.7 | Now I had as a podcast all about it. |
| 1:24.8 | I'm Jason Longfied, and on my new show, Where Were You in 92, we take a ride through the major hits. |
| 1:29.2 | One hit wonders and shocking scandals that shaped the wildest 12 months in music history. |
| 1:32.9 | You know, the president came after me. |
| 1:34.9 | Everybody had time, water, with madness. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Eric Zimmer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Eric Zimmer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.