Episode #233

Reclaim Your Life: Working Less, Earning More, and Living Your Best Life with CEO, Author and Speaker David Finkel

Key Takeaways

Schedule recurring focus blocks (e.g., one multi-hour block weekly plus 1-hour blocks on push days) and protect them like third-party appointments to generate disproportionate results from a small percentage of time.

Shift from the time-and-effort economy to a value economy by identifying A/B activities vs. D tasks, blocking A/B work first, and aligning with your boss and team on these priorities.

Sustain gains by building strategic depth—have your team adopt focus time, create systems and capacity, and reinvest reclaimed time into fewer, better priorities to avoid burnout and entropy.

Top Quotes

Most of us are filling our business schedule with empty junk calories.

If I don't put it in my calendar, I revert back to the default time and effort economy.

Done right, you can actually have more career success, better family, personal health life, but we have to change the model. The model is broken.

Episode Summary

Get your time back!

You check email the moment you lift your head off the pillow in the morning. You bring work with you on vacation, sneak glances at your smartphone during family dinners, and take business calls and texts at your kid’s sports games. It’s as if you’ve been forced to make a choice between your company or your life, sacrificing time for yourself and family for the sake of career success.

Guest Bio & Links

David Finkel

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