Productive Flourishing
In this episode, Jenny Blake joins Charlie on the sh...
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Mar 31 2022 1h 5m
Chapter 1 47 sec
Jenny invites listeners to do less. So much of free time is permission, and that permission is to be a little bit radical with your free timeChapter 2 3 mins
How did Jenny end up with the book Free Time? She explains how she was inspired to write her first two books, Life After College and Pivot, and Free Time is about optimizing what's nowChapter 3 2 mins
A lot of books on systems tend to be quite dense and complex. Jenny's aim was to bring some levity to the conversation with her bookChapter 4 3 mins
For business owners, Charlie highlights some important things to keep in mind about people sharing their numbersChapter 5 6 mins
What is Free Time about? At its core, it's a book that helps you make your business work for you without so much work to make it workChapter 6 2 mins
We need to start thinking about systems differently. A system is essentially a set of interrelated, interconnected parts that produce a consistent result. Oftentimes, in organizations, it can feel like people are at fault, but the underlying issues may be the work systems that have been createdChapter 7 12 mins
Jenny shares some examples of the importance of having systems on the personal and household frontChapter 8 2 mins
When we look at the things we don’t like to do or are not good at doing from another perspective, we can actually see that there are people out there who are good at it, and who want to do it, and will benefit economically from doing itChapter 9 3 mins
One of the things we have to take seriously in all teams is the energy and emotions that we inject into themChapter 10 3 mins
The bottleneck and chief constraint in a business is often not time, but energy and attentionChapter 11 8 mins
Jenny and Charlie discuss infinite games and how happiness and free time tie into thatChapter 12 5 mins
Creating systems can start by thinking of what you would like an ideal world to look like. The point is not to get caught in the minute details of how that is possible but merely visualize and dream what is possibleChapter 13 8 mins
Strategic laziness can be a helpful concept to tap into to create systems and processes in your business to make things easier for your future self