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Are You Free to Focus? (Part 6: Takeaways)

I had two main takeaways from “Free to Focus” that I’ve already started implementing: megabatching and using technology to avoid distracting technology.

May 13, 2019 Â· 5 min Â· J. David Stark
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Are You Free to Focus? (Part 5: Assessment)

Now that we’ve surveyed Michael Hyatt’s “Free to Focus,” we can to offer an assessment of its proposal. In a phrase, it’s “GTD for Essentialists.”

May 6, 2019 Â· 4 min Â· J. David Stark

Are You Free to Focus? (Part 4: Acting)

Continued review of Michael Hyatt’s “Free to Focus.” We discuss the three elements of “acting” on what you’ve identified as most important to pursue.

April 29, 2019 Â· 4 min Â· J. David Stark

Are You Free to Focus? (Part 3: Cutting)

After you stop to discern what’s important, you need to cut out what sidetracks you from focusing on that. Here are three strategies for doing just that.

April 22, 2019 Â· 3 min Â· J. David Stark

Are You Free to Focus? (Part 2: Stopping)

This post continues reviewing Michael Hyatt’s book “Free to Focus.” Here we concentrate on Hyatt’s advice about “stopping” to to discern what’s important.

April 15, 2019 Â· 3 min Â· J. David Stark
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Are You Free to Focus? (Part 1)

Do you feel like you’re drowning in a sea of tasks? Do you keep your nose to the grindstone and complete to-dos like a machine only to look up and find you’re failing to make the progress you want in the areas or projects that matter most? If so, then you need to read Michael Hyatt’s latest book, Free to Focus ( affiliate disclosure). The volume doesn’t release until tomorrow, 9 April. But the author and Baker Publishing kindly included me in the group that received advance copies. ...

April 8, 2019 Â· 4 min Â· J. David Stark