… you’ll find out how author and podcast host of not one, but two podcasts–Jenny Blake–helps people move from friction to flow so they can do more of their best work.
This conversation about her newest book, “Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business,” explains that business stress is a systems problem. She’s going to give you solid advice on how you can avoid overwork, burnout and run your business and your life with a lot more joy. Her mission? To set 50 million hours free through smarter systems.
Companies often do a great job at attracting the best and brightest employees, Jenny says, but not keeping them learning and growing and engaged. Inevitably, boredom sets in. You can have all these brilliant people working in intense environments that can lead to burnout. They are short on time to do their work, Jenny continues, and they’re also short on creative expression within that corporate context.
Many business owners, too, especially small ones, carry the weight of what Jenny calls the Burdensome Bs: 1) bottlenecked, 2) bored, and 3) burned out. And news flash about the myth of hard work for business owners: There’s no reward for doing “all the work” other than burnout.
You can change that narrative. Running a business does not have to be so hard, or stressful, or overwhelming. Strategic shifts can move any business’s operating zone from friction to flow. Wherever you encounter excessive friction, apply the Align-Design-Assign process.
Revamping systems and processes also leads you to the real prize: time. Time is not money, time is life force.
“Money is infinite on some level,” Jenny says, “Money can be abundant. Money can be a creative thought exercise. Money can be problem-solving. It is figure-out-able, but time isn’t. Some would say time is nonlinear, but time is ticking and it’s finite. It’s not necessarily a renewable resource. Time is far more precious than money. We should be far more considerate with how we’re spending our time, who we want to spend it with, how present we are when we are choosing our activities and the people that we’re with.”
You’re going to get a lot of smart business and life tips from this episode and Jenny’s book, “Free Time.” Here are some how-tos:
Keep in mind that you can have friction and flow in all areas of your life, not just work. “Whether it’s friction about your diet or friction with your energy, friction is tension,” Jenny says. “You feel drained, dread, you’re procrastinating. Things just feel so much harder than they need to be. And then flow is that state of effortlessness. Time is passing and you don’t even realize it.”
Jenny helps you find a flow state (and free time!) with your entire being and your entire mind-body-spirit system.
More about Jenny Blake: She’s the author of the award-winning book “Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One.” She’s co-creator of Google’s acclaimed global Career Guru coaching program and was the first employee at a political polling startup later acquired by YouGov America. She currently hosts two podcasts: Free Time with Jenny Blake for heart-based business owners and Pivot with Jenny Blake for navigating change.
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