Zack Arnold on Optimizing Yourself and Avoiding Burnout
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week I was incredibly excited to welcome Zack Arnold to the show for a great conversation about optimizing your life, avoiding burnout and learning to set the right goals. Zack is an award-winning Hollywood film & television editor known for his work on favorites of mine such as, Cobra Kai, Burn Notice, Empire, Shooter, and Glee. Zac is a member of the American Cinema Editors, an American Ninja Warrior, and creator of the Optimize Yourself program.
Zack uses his experience as a creative professional to produce the Optimize Yourself Podcast which aims to give creative professionals insight into how to love what they do for a living without having to sacrifice their health, relationships, or sanity in the process. The podcast also addresses the specifics of creative burnout and ways to avoid it.
Previous Episodes Mentioned in This Installment:
Marc Champagne on The Importance of Asking The Right Questions
Gretchen Rubin on Expectations, Habits and Happiness
James Clear on Building Good Habits and Breaking Bad Ones
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| 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 |
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| 0:50.8 | LinkedIn knows that small businesses are wearing so many hats and might not have the time or resources to hire. |
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| 1:04.6 | Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com.com. |
| 1:06.8 | referral that's LinkedIn.com slash referral to post your job for free. Hello and this is your host Eric Fisher and this is the show |
| 1:34.8 | where I talk to the people behind the productivity. This week I am sharing a |
| 1:39.0 | conversation I had with Zach Arnold, someone who has been behind my productivity in ways I didn't even know. |
| 1:46.4 | One of the most productive things that you can do is to take a break, and not just take a break, |
| 1:50.8 | but maybe share that break time with somebody else say watching a show and one of the things that I have really enjoyed over the past few years and seasons with my son and my daughter has been watching Cobra Kai. Well, |
| 2:05.7 | Zach Arnold is an award-winning Hollywood film and television editor from Cobra |
| 2:10.8 | Kai to Burn Notice, another favorite of mine, |
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