Four Time Wasting Habits: How to Quit

Four Time Wasting Habits: How to Quit

26mBeginner2023-01-06

Authors

Pete Mockaitis | How to Be Awesome at Your Job

Pete Mockaitis | How to Be Awesome at Your Job

Career development podcast hosted by Pete Mockaitis

Course details

In this audio-only course, entrepreneur and writer Steve Glaveski reveals how to unlearn the four habits that waste our time. Steve shows you how to identify how often you task switch and the distractions that steal your attention. Once you know where your attention goes, then you can devise strategies to win back your focus and time. He advocates building an environment free of distraction. That way, you can keep your focus only on what you need to do. Steve guides you through learning to focus on just the task at hand and breaking down what you need to do into its smallest component. He also highlights the importance of saying no to requests that don’t align with your goals. Plus, Steve reveals how to stop working on a task once you reach the point of diminishing returns and how to automate or outsource small tasks.

Skills covered

Audio ContentTime ManagementProfessional Development

Concepts

Four Time Wasting Habits - How to Quit

  • Very few people are time rich
  • Small distractions have big costs
  • Habit one - Task-switching
  • Focus on the task within the task
  • Designate specific times to check email
  • Habit two - Saying yes to everything
  • Habit three - Residual work
  • Habit four - Path of least effort
  • Shorter hours force you to focus
  • Automate and outsource