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REMASTERED: Time Management Secrets of Billionaires, with Kevin Kruse (Productivity, Scheduling, Entrepreneurship, Author)
Tue, 12 Nov 2024
Author, speaker, and serial entrepreneur Kevin Kruse shares advice he extracted from Mark Cuban, the 3-21-0 and 4-D email methods, the importance of making friends with the calendar, the productivity tips supported by Harvard research, taking the "I" out of getting things done, and using time travel to defeat procrastination.
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It was the classic mistake of letting myself get driven by the never-ending to-do list. So there's more things to do, so I would sacrifice sleep to try to get more things off of the to-do list. I would skip meals. I was in that emotional yo-yo. We all talk about what we value in life, faith, family, my friends, finances.
And yet if you look at people's calories, you can truly see what they value by how they're investing their time.
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There are writers and then there are great writers. And you are about to hear from one of the great writers of our day, I think, Kevin Cruz. And he's the author of 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management. So, Kevin, thanks for being here. I'm really looking forward to it. This will be fun. Traditionally, you've been more in the workplace culture space and the leadership space.
Why a book on time management and why now? What caused this? I'm getting that question a lot because it is a different subject matter for me or from what people know me for. And this was really a passion project because I saw myself the impact of adopting some of these extreme productivity habits It had a tremendous impact on both my business life, but also my personal life.
And to put it plainly, I'm, I'd say, a reformed serial entrepreneur. And when I was young and dumb in my 20s and starting my first businesses, you know, I, it wasn't really my fault. I mean, I was kind of lied to, I believe that it was all about hustle. So I would just outwork everybody.
And in my very first company, I mean, I literally was living secretly in my one room office, sleeping under the desk and waking up in the morning, showering at the YMCA, coming back to the office to put in another, you know, 18 hour day. And I did that for a year. And, and that business,
You know, it showed that it isn't just about working hard and working, you know, every available hour and the next business did a little better, but didn't do great. And it was the classic mistake of letting myself get distracted.
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