Optimal Agency

We’re discussing the importance of having a clear vision and aligning it with health, wealth, and time to achieve the life you want. We’re also talking about the significance of capital and people in achieving success and the importance of asking for what you want.

Expect to learn:

• The value of having a clear vision and how to bounce it off health, wealth, and time

• The importance of recognizing the role of people in achieving success and how to overcome barriers to collaboration

• How to deliver value first and ask for what you want to achieve your goals

ABOUT THE SHOW

Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you can impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show to avoid missing any new episodes.

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We are discussing the concept of volunteerism and how to approach it intentionally, talking about why it’s important to understand our purpose and only say “yes” to opportunities that align with it.

Here are the four strategies we discuss to consider when figuring out how to volunteer smarter:

· Beware of projects that aren’t yours

· Remember that time is zero-sum

· Maintain clarity of purpose

· Say no to good opportunities

ABOUT THE SHOW

Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you can impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show to avoid missing any new episodes.

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In pursuit of closing the gap between our aspirational and our practiced values, we’re talking about reducing starting friction, building a rule-based identity, discarding false values, and more.

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Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you have the freedom to impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show so you don’t miss any new episodes.

✦ Read the Rules: Health | Wealth | Time

✦ Get your HWT Score

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This week, we're talking about (wait for it) taxes. Specifically, we're breaking down Wealth Rule #4: Pay as Few Taxes as possible. Topics include strategies for paying less, who the tax code is designed to benefit, entrepreneurship, and why hiring a tax professional is almost always worth the money.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you can impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show to avoid missing any new episodes.

✦ Read the Rules: Health | Wealth | Time

✦ Get your HWT Score

✦ Get our weekly email

What do you do when everything feels important? That’s the question this week as we pull from a conversation that Jon and Patrick had recently on the Chasing Excellence podcast.

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ABOUT THE SHOW

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Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you have the freedom to impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show so you don’t miss any new episodes.

✦ Read the Rules: Health | Wealth | Time

✦ Get your HWT Score

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The link between overall health and strong relationships is well-known, but it remains a challenge for many to prioritize friendships. We’re talking about why that is and what we can do about it this week.

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EXPECT TO LEARN:

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📍 Why friendship and connection are at odds with productivity

📍 How the pursuit of agency and autonomy can go too far

📍 The stats around loneliness and social isolation

📍 Why friendships get deprioritized

📍 The 4 barriers that are standing in the way of friendship

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ABOUT THE SHOW

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Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you have the freedom to impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show so you don’t miss any new episodes.

✦ Read the Rules: Health | Wealth | Time

✦ Get your HWT Score

✦ Get our weekly email

We have 18 Rules across Health, Wealth, and Time. This week, we’re doing a speed round through each one with an eye toward whether we should consider them offense or defense in this game of Agency we’re playing.

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EXPECT TO LEARN:

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📍 Why we include Health as a key ingredient of Agency

📍 Why spending less is more fun to think of as offense than defense

📍 How compounding transcends the game of Agency itself

📍 How to become unstoppable

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ABOUT THE SHOW

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Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you have the freedom to impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show so you don’t miss any new episodes.

✦ Read the Rules: Health | Wealth | Time

✦ Get your HWT Score

✦ Get our weekly email

Returning to our Rules of Time this week, we’re discussing the importance of keeping slack in our calendars. We’re talking about where our fears and resistance to “free time” comes from, how to start creating it, and much more.

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EXPECT TO LEARN

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📍 What unstructured time is, and why we need it

📍 Why we devalue unstructured time in modern society

📍 How to practically increase the time you have to leave unstructured

📍 Why you want to find 10% of your structured time to make unstructured

📍 The importance of the “elimination game” in our work lives

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ABOUT THE SHOW

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Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you have the freedom to impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show so you don’t miss any new episodes.

✦ Read the Rules: Health | Wealth | Time

✦ Get your HWT Score

✦ Get our weekly email

Parkinson’s Law states that work will expand to the time and space it’s given. This week we’re looking at how we can use Parkinson’s Law to our advantage and talking about the 80/20 Rule, why voluntary deprivation isn’t a bad thing, and much more.

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📍 Why you understand Parkinson’s Law if you’ve ever been to a buffet

📍 Why setting aside time to make a plan is a wildly efficient strategy

📍 What discipline is and why it’s an essential ingredient in owning our time

📍 The challenge of living within our hyper-distractive world

📍 Why you need to start with your limitations

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ABOUT THE SHOW

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Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you have the freedom to impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show so you don’t miss any new episodes.

✦ Read the Rules: Health | Wealth | Time

✦ Get your HWT Score

✦ Get our weekly email

We’re talking about another one of our Wealth Rules this week, discussing savings rates, how to stack rank where to try to spend less, how savings is related to your serenity, and more.

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EXPECT TO LEARN:

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📍 Why our goal should be to save…a lot

📍 How to determine your “savings rate,” and why you should

📍 The difference between making money with time and with money

📍 How your savings can become your serenitity

📍 Why saving much less than you make is not anti-YOLO

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ABOUT THE SHOW

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Optimal Agency aims to help you own your life so you have the freedom to impact the world, pursue work you love, and spend your hours how you want. Be sure to subscribe or follow the show so you don’t miss any new episodes.

✦ Read the Rules: Health | Wealth | Time

✦ Get your HWT Score

✦ Get our weekly email