Hosted by David Sparks and Mike Schmitz.
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.
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#138: Hyper-Scheduling Revisited
November 9th, 2021 · 94 minutes
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?
#137: Managing Busy
October 27th, 2021 · 81 minutes
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.
#136: Social Focus, with Taylor Jacobson
October 12th, 2021 · 82 minutes
Taylor Jacobson joins us to talk about groundedness, vulnerability, and accountability on his journey to founding Focusmate.
#135: Don't Eat the Frog, with Jesse J. Anderson
September 28th, 2021 · 80 minutes
Jesse Anderson joins us to talk about self-awareness and the struggles with being productive while battling ADHD.
#134: Finding Space with Sean McCabe
September 14th, 2021 · 95 minutes
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.
#133: Success & Failure
August 31st, 2021 · 78 minutes
David & Mike do an audit of their productivity workflows and share what's working (and what isn't).
#132: Willpower and Your Environment
August 17th, 2021 · 73 minutes
Is willpower enough to plow through? In this episode, Mike and David look into that question.
#131: Liminal Thinking
August 3rd, 2021 · 83 minutes
We're all a lot less objective than we give ourselves credit for. David & Mike attempt to figure out why by considering limiting beliefs, learning loops, and the slippery slope of self-sealing logic.
#130: Toxic Productivity
July 20th, 2021 · 79 minutes
At what point does your quest for productivity and efficiency become toxic? It's a good question and an easy trap. Mike and David have a few ideas.
#129: No One Wants to Work With a Jerk, with Colleen Wainwright
July 6th, 2021 · 81 minutes
Gmail ninja Colleen Wainwright joins us to talk about delegating work to others, the evolution of the attention economy, and working out of email without going crazy.