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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

572: How Morning Practices Like Savoring and Investing in Calm Boost Productivity with Chris Bailey

May 21, 2020
35:16

Productivity THOUGHT LEADER(!) Chris Bailey shares how investing in your calm can boost your productivity and how savoring the little things every day can help you start your day right. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) How calm provides the greatest return on productivity 

2) Why you shouldn’t feel guilty over being less productive now 

3) How and why to savor 


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— ABOUT CHRIS — 

Chris Bailey is a productivity expert, and the international bestselling author of Hyperfocus and The Productivity Project—which have been published in seventeen languages. Chris writes about productivity at Alifeofproductivity.com, and speaks to organizations around the globe on how they can become more productive, without hating the process. To date, he has written hundreds of articles on the subject of productivity, and has garnered coverage in media as diverse as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, The Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, GQ, TED, Fortune, Fast Company, and Lifehacker. 

• Book: Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction 

• Book: The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy 

• Podcast: Becoming Better 

• Website: A Life of Productivity 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Author: Shawn Achor 

• Book: How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Greger 

• Product: Keychron K2 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard 


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