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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.

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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:

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Charlie Gilkey is the author of Start Finishing: How To Go From Idea To Done. An Army veteran and near Ph.D. in philosophy, Charlie is the founder of Productive Flourishing, a company that helps professional creatives, leaders, and change-makers take meaningful action on work matters. He’s widely cited in outlets such as Inc. Magazine, Time, Forbes, The Guardian, Life Hacker, and more and his work will help you discover the path from the ideas in your head to the actions you take in your daily life and how to go about getting things done.

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Charlie Gilkey and I Discuss How to Get Things Done and…

• His book, Start Finishing: How To Go From Idea To Done
• How kindness towards others often brings out the best in everyone
• The Tao Te Ching
• Focusing on your input and letting go of the results
• We don’t just improve by thinking about things, we improve by doing them
• Creative constipation breeds toxicity 
• We’re either creating something or destroying something
• We don’t do ideas, we do projects
• How doing our best work is often really hard
• The myth: if it’s meant to be for us, it’s supposed to be easy
• The myth that if it doesn’t come easy for you, you shouldn’t do it
• Doing something until you’re good enough at it to decide whether or not you want to continue doing it
• The 5 things that get in the way of doing our best work
• Head Trash: Doesn’t matter if a thought is true or not – it matters if we believe it or not
• The problem with automatically believing our thoughts
• How discipline limits decision fatigue
• How action expresses priority

Charlie Gilkey Links:

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Nir Eyal is an author whose writing on technology, psychology, and business has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Psychology Today, and many other renowned publications. Previously, he taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School. In this episode, Nir and Eric discuss his new book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. 

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The wisdom and practice of self-compassion is a foundational principle that Eric teaches and helps his private clients learn to apply through the 1-on-1 Spiritual Habits Program. To learn more about this program, click here.

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In This Interview, Nir Eyal and I discuss Becoming Indistractable and…

• His book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
• How what we pay attention to determines our quality of life
• The importance of being in control of how you spend your time and attention in life
• When it comes to being distracted, there are the blamers, the shamers, and the claimers
• That the root cause of distraction is uncomfortable sensations
• Time management is pain management
• How you can’t stop emotions but you can respond to them
• The 4 key steps of becoming indistractable
• Traction and Dis-traction
• How anything can become a distraction
• That you can’t call something a distraction unless you know what you are distracted from
• The tyranny of the to-do list
• Deciding with intent when you’re going to do something
• Timeboxing
• Mastering our internal triggers: Learning to work with our uncomfortable emotions
• The 3 reasons we get distracted
• The antidote to impulsive behavior
• Using an identity to help us become indistractable

Nir Eyal Links:

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