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Do You Really Want Work-Life Balance? [Podcast S08E12]

The Surprising Alternative

Welcome to Season 8, Episode 12 of the This Is Your Life podcast. In this episode, Michele Cushatt and I discuss the surprising alternative to achieving work-life balance.

There are more demands on our time and attention than ever before. Is it even possible to be successful in both your professional and personal life? I think so. In today’s podcast, we give you five suggestions for aligning your home and work life with your highest values.

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How Elite Entrepreneurs and Executives Stay Focused and Productive

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I was stunned when I saw the statistic. According to a LinkedIn survey, only 11 percent of professionals actually complete their daily to-do lists. Why so few?

“Survey respondents pointed to unplanned tasks (such as unscheduled phone calls, emails and meetings) as the primary cause for not completing all items on their to-do lists,” the organization said. In other words, interruptions are the primary culprit.

When I surveyed my own audience about productivity, they said the same thing. Constant interruptions and distractions are the No. 1 obstacle we face in staying productive and accomplishing our most important projects.

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Why Discomfort Is Good for You

3 Reasons We Should Jump Outside Our Comfort Zones

Think you have big goals? Think again. Over the summer, long-distance runner Dean Karnazes ran the Silk Road Ultramarathon. He covered 326 miles through the deserts and mountains of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan in just eleven days.

Before that, Karnazes reproduced the world’s first marathon, a 153-mile run from Athens to Sparta. He details that adventure in a new book out this fall, The Road to Sparta. I can’t wait to read it. But these are only the most recent in a long string of accomplishments.

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How to Quickly Create Killer Blog Posts [Podcast S08E11]

My 7 Step System

Welcome to Season 8, Episode 11 of the This Is Your Life podcast. In this episode, Michele Cushatt and I discuss 7 steps you can take to quickly create killer blog posts.

Those of us who invest our time in crafting original blog content want to make sure that our investment has a good return. We want to provide great content, but we have limited time. In today’s podcast, we give you a seven step system for getting the most traction for your blogging efforts.

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In this episode, you’ll discover:

The ONE thing you have to get right (or nothing else in your article matters).

How to make your posts easy for your audience to scan and digest.

Why photos and design make a difference (and what you need to do to improve them).

The best way to end every blog post so the conversation continues.

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Anybody can get better at blogging if they’ll just become a student of what actually works.

—MICHAEL HYATT

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You can download a complete, word-for-word transcript of this episode here, courtesy of Ginger Schell, a professional transcriptionist, who does all my transcriptions.

Join the Conversation

My favorite part of doing these podcasts is participating in the conversation they provoke. Each week, I ask one question. This week, it is this:

Question: What changes are you going to make this week to improve your blogging workflow? You can leave a comment by clicking here.
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About Us

Michael Hyatt is the author of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World. Recognized by magazines like Forbes and Inc as an important online marketing and leadership expert, he’s also the founder of Platform University and 5 Days to Your Best Year Ever. Read more about him here.

Michele Cushatt is a popular speaker and author. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter, or her blog. She’s a three-time cancer survivor with a powerful, personal story. Listen to it here or read about it in her memoir, Undone: A Story of Making Peace with an Imperfect Life.

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Take My New Personal Productivity Self-Assessment

Discover Your Productivity Score and How to Improve It

How productive are you? I wanted a way to help people answer that question, so earlier this summer I started working on a productivity self-assessment. I beta tested it in July with a special Facebook group. And now it’s finally ready to share.

If you want directions to a desired destination, you need at least two pieces of info: the end point and the start point. Apps like Waze or Google Maps make that easy because they automatically know our current location. But how do you find your current location in other areas of life?

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How to Reach the Next Level of Team Performance

3 Personality Tests We Use to Boost Our Collaboration

I’m an assessment geek. I’m always looking to improve my own performance as well as my team’s. And I find measurement essential for upping our game.

I first started using personality tests over a decade ago when I became the publisher of Nelson Books. It was a way for me to peek under the hood and see what I could do to drive my performance to the next level.

Pretty quickly I also realized personality assessments gave me a great way to intelligently build my team.

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8 Secrets to Escape the Overwhelm [Podcast S08E10]

How to Reclaim Your Sanity

Welcome to Season 8, Episode 10 of the This Is Your Life podcast. In this episode, Michele Cushatt and I discuss how to reclaim your sanity when you’re overwhelmed.

We all get overcommitted from time to time. It happens. Whether you find yourself in that place today or not, we have 8 secrets to help you better understand the dynamics that get us overwhelmed and what to do when it happens.

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“Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.” – William A. Ward [Photo]

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Their Success Doesn’t Threaten Ours

Why Competition Isn't Always Good

This is a guest post from my friend Lysa TerKeurst, a No. 1 New York Times bestselling author. Her most recent book is Uninvited. Find out more here.

Competition is good. Except when it isn’t. It’s good for board games and sports fields. But it can feel different when it comes to our most important work.

Navigating the delicate art of comparison and unhealthy competition does not come naturally to me. I’ve wrestled through this. I’ve lost. I’ve won. And I’ve found it incredibly necessary to think about my pursuits in a better way.

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7 Steps to Getting Unstuck and Becoming More Productive

Stop Letting Distractions Hold You Back

Be honest. You’re distracted, right? In fact, that’s probably why you are reading this blog post instead of working on that project you should be working on now.

Maybe you’re like my friend, Justin, who told me he was having real trouble making progress on his book. “The deadline is looming,” he admitted. “But I can’t seem to get focused.”

I know the feeling.

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