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Feb 2022
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Taylor Jacobson on Tools to Find Focus a...

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About this episode

Taylor Jacobson is the CEO and Founder of Focusmate (www.focusmate.com), a virtual coworking community with a mission to help everyone do their best work. Thousands of people in 193 countries worldwide sit side-by-side, via video, to keep each other company, cheer each other on, and hold one another accountable. Taylor is a passionate voice on creating soulful work and workplaces and has been featured in The New Yorker, CNN, The Guardian, NPR, Fast Company, Bloomberg Businessweek, and more.

In this episode, Eric and Taylor discuss his company, Focusmate, along with many useful ideas for designing the life you want to live.

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Taylor Jacobson and I Discuss Tools to Find Focus and Accountability and…

  • His company, Focusmate, that he started to help himself and others to become more productive
  • The importance of feeling safe in a community in helping to accomplish your goals
  • Procrastination is an expression of feeling unsafe
  • How it’s difficult to focus when you’re feeling stressed or anxious
  • How having a morning routine is grounding and signals our body we’re safe and able to get started
  • Designing a life that demands what you want to give
  • Noticing when you need to make a shift and reinvent yourself
  • The ability to focus and the correlation to our nervous system
  • Fight or flight impulses 
  • Learning to experience and release these energy forces
  • His choice to find the optimal environment to do the important inner work he desired
  • Spiritual practices and choosing and trusting your inner truth
  • Understanding that our experiences inform the gifts that we can give to the world 
  • How living in fear limits our ability to share our unique gifts

Taylor Jacobson Links:

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Taylor Jacobson you might also enjoy these other episodes:

How to Focus and Accomplish Goals with Emily Balcetis

Chris Bailey on Focus, Productivity, and Meditation


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