The Best Minute: Easy meeting scheduling, finding your passion, and your attention

1 PRODUCTIVITY SOLUTION FROM ME

One potential stressor for anyone who has multiple meetings a week is actually scheduling the meeting(s). Multiple back-and-forth emails, texts, or phone calls just trying to find a time to set it up can waste a lot of time.

I use a service called Calendly to set up all of my meetings, and it turns the back and forth of scheduling a meeting into two quick emails from me.

I simply reach out (about the reason for the meeting) and then write this:

Find any time on my calendar and we can meet then: [I put a link to my calendly here]

Pick any time that works for you and I will follow up [my follow up email with the place to meet is my second email] with a place to meet. If no times on my calendar work for you, let me know and we can find another time.

And guess how often people follow up asking for a different time? Almost never.

So if you are looking for a way to schedule meetings quickly and easily, try something like Calendly (or its equivalent).

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2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. Cal Newport on how to discover your passion:

“Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.”

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II. John Mark Comer on the importance of your attention:

“Because what you give your attention to is the person you become. Put another way: the mind is the portal to the soul, and what you fill your mind with will shape the trajectory of your character. In the end, your life is no more than the sum of what you gave your attention to.”

1 INTERESTING FACT

It is literally impossible to multi-task.

When we think we’re multi-tasking, we’re actually context-switching. That is, we’re quickly switching back-and-forth between different tasks, rather than doing them at the same time. The problem with multi-tasking is that we’re splitting our brain’s resources. We’re giving less attention to each task, and research shows we then perform worse on all of them.

When we try to do both Action A and Action B at the same time, our brain is never handling both simultaneously. Instead, it has to painfully switch back and forth and use important brainpower just for the switching. Thus losing focus and ability each time.

Source: Buffer