148: Frustrated and Overwhelmed? Learn How to Become Free to Focus (feat. Michael Hyatt)

I bet you know how frustrating it is to wake-up for the day with plans to accomplish important tasks, only to find yourself overwhelmed and unaccomplished by the end of the day. Everyone gets 168 hours a week, but it never feels like enough, does it? And you probably know what it feels like for work to eat-up the majority of that time. In fact, many professionals today are working as much as 70 hours a week—leaving less and less for rest, recreation, family, and friends; all the things that make life great.

But this is where a lot of people, me included, get hung-up. You see, most people think productivity is about finding or saving time. But it’s not. It’s about making our time work for us. It’s about learning how to become free to focus. And that’s the conversation we’re having today with leadership and productivity expert, Michael Hyatt.

For years, Michael Hyatt struggled to balance it all. As the former chairman and CEO of one of the world’s largest publishing companies, his success came at the expense of his health and his most valuable relationships. The turnaround for him came when he realized the answer wasn’t simply to get more done. Instead, success, Michael learned, is about getting the right things done. He soon discovered how to sync his daily activities with his most important goals and priorities. And since then, his life has never been the same.

In today’s conversation, Michael is going to share his groundbreaking method to become free to focus so that you will win at work and succeed at the rest of life—in your health, your relationships, your hobbies, and more. He’s going to help you redefine your goals, evaluate what’s working, cut out the nonessentials, focus on the most important tasks, manage your time and energy, and build momentum for a lifetime of success. If you’re tired of the overwhelm and want to be free to focus, buckle-up, because my conversation with New York Times bestselling author, Michael Hyatt, starts right now.

Key Statements

• Focusing on everything means focusing on nothing.
• You can’t focus when you’re multitasking.
• Your best creative ideas often arrive when you’re free to do nothing.
• The prerequisite to innovation is constraint.
• FOCO is the fear of conflict with others. FODO is the fear of disappointing others.
• No one ever drifted to a destination they would have chosen.
• Focusing on wins isn’t “pollyanna;” it’s perspective.

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Everyone gets 168 hours a week, but it never feels like enough, does it? Work gobbles up the lion’s share–many professionals are working as much as 70 hours a week–leaving less and less for rest, exercise, family, and friends. You know, all those things that make life great. Most people think productivity is about finding or saving time. But it’s not. It’s about making our time work for us. Just imagine having free time again. It’s not a pipe dream.

In Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less, New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt reveals to readers nine proven ways to win at work so they are finally free to succeed at the rest of life–their health, relationships, hobbies, and more. He helps readers redefine their goals, evaluate what’s working, cut out the nonessentials, focus on the most important tasks, manage their time and energy, and build momentum for a lifetime of success. Buy Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less now. And…claim your free bonuses here.

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