David Sparks and Mike Schmitz are not nearly as productive as they’d like to be. Join these fellow travelers (and a bunch of special guests) as they share the best ways to get focused, and talk through their successes and failures along the way. Hosted by David Sparks and Mike Schmitz.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 9 days 19 hours 27 minutes
episode 141: You Never Arrive
David & Mike discuss the arrival fallacy and the importance of finding joy in the journey.
episode 140: Your Brain is Not a Computer with Cory Hixson
Engineering professor Cory Hixson joins the Focused crew this week about staying on target, not letting your kids eat take your brain, and why you are not a computer.
episode 139: Soundtracks & Self-Talk
David & Mike consider the source of negative self-talk, the power of positive thinking, and taming the rebellious brain.
episode 138: Hyper-Scheduling Revisited
Mike and David return to the subject of hyper-scheduling after they've both been at it a few years. What works? What doesn't? And how did Mike's experiment go where he stopped blocking time?
episode 137: Managing Busy
Mike and David return to the insidious problem of "busy". Mike and David are not beyond getting caught in this trap and share some ideas about how to avoid it.
episode 136: Social Focus, with Taylor Jacobson
Taylor Jacobson joins us to talk about groundedness, vulnerability, and accountability on his journey to founding Focusmate.
episode 135: Don't Eat the Frog, with Jesse J. Anderson
Jesse Anderson joins us to talk about self-awareness and the struggles with being productive while battling ADHD.
episode 134: Finding Space with Sean McCabe
Sean McCabe comes back to report in on what happened when his year-long sabbatical smacked into a pandemic and how he keeps his focus while winding up a new business.
episode 133: Success & Failure
David & Mike do an audit of their productivity workflows and share what's working (and what isn't).
episode 132: Willpower and Your Environment
Is willpower enough to plow through? In this episode, Mike and David look into that question.