TLS #120 with Alex Ikonn: A $250,000 Productivity Habit To get Important Stuff Done
The Lively Show
Bella Lively
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re having our follow up episode with Alex Ikonn, an awesome vlogger and the co-founder of the popular Five Minute Journal and Luxy Hair.
Earlier this month, Alex came on TLS and discussed his fascinating journey to go from the brink of juvenile detention to now living the life of his dreams just 11 years later.
Today, we’re going into the daily habits and mindsets that he has found most effective and included in his newest product, the Productivity Planner, which we can use with and without the actual planner itself in our daily lives to make sure we execute on our most important work.
This episode is perfect for anyone interested in learning simple + powerful strategies to help them focus and be more effective at the things that mean the most to them in life and work.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT ABOUT
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Alex tells us how the productivity planner was developed from his and Mimi’s own personal and business struggles.
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He briefly explains how he was influenced by the myth of the four hour work week and how that affected their lives.
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Alex talks about his struggles of procrastination and how it led to a goal to make productivity simpler.
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He recounts the achievement of their dreams and the comfortable lifestyle brought on depression to both of them.
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Alex describes that through discipline and focus people can create more freedom in both their personal and work lives.
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He reviews with us the structure of the productivity planner and how we can implement the concepts right away.
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Alex reveals the importance of focus and how crucial focused time is for many people.
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He tells us that those moments of self-awareness are there to bring you back on the course to be a better person.
SHOW NOTES
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
The Lively Show with Mimi Ikonn #75
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the lively show, episode 120. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the lively show. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Jess Lively, and this blogcast is designed to uplift, inspire, |
| 0:11.0 | and add a little extra intention to your everyday. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the show guys. |
| 0:20.0 | Thank you so much for listening, |
| 0:22.0 | and I hope you're having a wonderful day so far today's |
| 0:25.4 | episode is sponsored by square space.com to try out square space for free go to square space |
| 0:30.5 | dot com slash lively and enter the code lively at check out to get to |
| 0:35.0 | go to Squerspace. |
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| 0:37.0 | At the end of the episode, I'm speaking with Jessica Freeman |
| 0:39.9 | of Jess Creatives.com about her experience with Squarespace. |
| 0:43.8 | Now let's move on to life and how it's going before getting into the episode. |
| 0:47.8 | Life for me is going well. |
| 0:49.5 | The weather here in Michigan has been unusually warm, which is awesome. |
| 0:53.3 | It's so nice not to have to wear a parker all the time |
| 0:55.8 | and to see the sun. |
| 0:56.8 | So I've definitely been enjoying the warm weather. |
| 0:59.9 | And I've been planning some trips to warm places as well or warmer places than Michigan |
| 1:04.7 | including Portland and Los Angeles I'm going to Portland in February to do an |
| 1:10.0 | interview for fizzle.co fizzle.co fizzle is awesome and I love the guys there. |
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