How you manage your time is often a key indicator of your success or failure. However, many of us think about time in terms of efficiency rather than effectiveness. What if a slight tweak in how we think about our time might be all we need in order to drastically improve our productivity and our sense of well-being?

Today's guest is Jenny Blake. Her new book Free Time offers strategies for leveraging time for deeper productivity, a better sense of purpose and flow, and a healthier overall life. Learn more about Jenny at ItsFreeTime.com.

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What makes a great team... great? This is a question that many leaders wrestle with, and the complexity of the problem often causes them to settle for quick and easy solutions rather than really instilling a culture of excellence.

In this interview, John U. Bacon shares his experience coaching the worst high school hockey team in the US and helping them become one of the best. He shares several principles that he applied or learned in the midst of his coaching experience, and how they apply to our own leadership and collaborations. John U. Bacon's book is called Let Them Lead.

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If you want to do your best creative work, you must learn to protect your "idea factory". This is the source of your deepest insights and value.

A few years ago, I came across the Walt Disney business model from 1957. I liked it so much that I found a copy, framed it, and put it on my wall.

The reason that I love this business model so much is because everything about it centers around the creative output of the film studio. I have taken to calling this the "idea factory", because I think that's the most appropriate phrase for it. Walt Disney recognized that all of the value that the company creates ultimately came down to its ability to protect its idea factory.

On today's show, we're going to talk about some ways that you identify and protect your own idea factory.

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Today's guest is Pat Hazell. Pat is the Chief Creative Officer at Sweetwood Creative and the host of the Creativity in Captivity podcast, where I was a recent guest.

Showtime declared Pat one of the five funniest people in America. His 25 years of experience as a writer, producer, and director have made them a go-to guy for new American theater. Pat is one of the original writers for Seinfeld, a Tonight Show veteran, and he's a critically acclaimed playwright and contributing commentator to NPR. On today's show, we talk about the creative process, where good ideas come from, and how to decide if an idea is truly good especially when you're under pressure.

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There is no shortage of advice about how to handle the start of a project, or how to push through and finish one, but what about that grey area in-between? What about the challenges and problems we encounter in the space between? On this replay episode, Scott Belsky is back to share wisdom from his fantastic new book The Messy Middle that will help you navigate the most challenging pitfalls of any creative endeavor.

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Daily Creative releases on September 6th! Pre-order now to receive the audiobook for free, or pre-order 2+ copies and get Daily Creative delivered each day as an email or podcast episode. Learn more or register your pre-order at DailyCreativeBook.com.

On this episode, I share two entries from the book Daily Creative. First, we discuss the nature of uncomfortable questions and why we often avoid them. Then, we address the dynamic of unnecessary complexity and how we can weed it out of our life and systems.

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What do you do first thing? Is there any intentionality about how to enter your day? For the past twenty years, I've engaged in the exact same morning routine, and it's been both a calibrator and a life saver in many ways.

In this episode, I share the elements of my morning routine and offer some thoughts about how to craft your own.

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Some of what we think we know about relationships is actually... wrong. So many of the tried and true axioms that are passed along are simply not helpful. We need to better understand what the research truly says if we want to be better collaborators, better leaders, and better human beings.

Eric Barker is the best-selling author of a new book Plays Well With Others. In this episode, he shares some common misunderstandings about relationships and how we can each learn to be better at making them work.

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What if the thing you do is highly competitive? How do you get noticed? On this episode, Amos Heller (touring bass player for Taylor Swift and many other artists) shares how he went from barista to touring bass player and some things he learned along the way that anyone can use to gain a foothold in a competitive industry.

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