The Good Talk Podcast

Sagar & Charchil start the episode talking about how reading Harry Potter compares to watching the movies. Then they move to why our habits are powerful precursors of success. They then discuss how to identify which habits to work on, how to prime your environment to help you do get into any habit, using streaks and monetary rewards as well as using alarms for remembering things you need to do.

For breaking negative or bad habits, they talk about why relying on self control isn't a good strategy and how saying them out loud, preparing responses to break your usual patterns and removing the choices around you are simple techniques to get rid of them.

Finally, they introduce this week's exercise on making a list of things you are ready to let go of.

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This is Productivity - Part 2! If you haven't heard Productivity - Part 1 yet, be sure to do that before you listen to this episode.

Charchil & Sagar continue talk about Energy Management, which is part of the Attention-Energy-Time Framework. How we lose energy and how to manage it using good sleep, nutrition, exercise and taking regular breaks is talked about.

They move to the final part of the framework: time. The talk revolves around creating a master list of how you spend your time, investing time in work that creates more time in the future, and some general tips around making sure your focus stays on what you wish to be doing.

Last week's exercise is discussed and the Personal Touchstone exercise is introduced for this week.

Resources:

Toggl: https://toggl.com

Rescue Timer: https://www.rescuetime.com/

Any Do : https://www.any.do/

Todoist: https://todoist.com/

Freedom app: https://freedom.to/?rfsn=2713930.53545c

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Charchil & Sagar talk about Charchil's favourite topic: Productivity! In Productivity - Part 1, they talk about why you may want to be productive and introduce the Productivity Framework of Attention, Energy and Time. Managing attention with digital distractions and achieving flow and a number of techniques and apps that can help you focus better are shared.

Last week's exercise is discussed and for this week, the Pockets of Time exercise is introduced.

Freedom app: https://freedom.to/?rfsn=2713930.53545c

FocusMate: https://www.focusmate.com/

Coffitivity: https://coffitivity.com/

Brain.fm: https://brain.fm/

Flash cards app: https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Tune in for Productivity - Part 2 next Monday!

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Charchil & Sagar talk about our self limiting beliefs and how our identity is connected to what we believe about ourselves and the world. Beliefs are powerful because they shape our life and our actions. The limiting beliefs about ourselves, our abilities and the world and how they can be changed to build the life we want is discussed. How to go beyond just positive thinking by making small changes, identifying faulty logic, using or creating your own unfair advantage are shared as simple ways to challenge and change beliefs that are stopping you from getting what you want in life.

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Sagar & Charchil talk about Marie Kondo's book, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up and its philosophy of owning and keeping those things that spark joy in you. How can decluttering your outside world help relax and calm you on the inside, why old gifts and mementos are difficult but necessary to let go of and how we are constantly dealing with digital and social clutter is discussed.

The talk then moves to happiness and whether it is actually a choice. Simple ways of being present to enjoy a moment while still taking pictures, using gratitude instead of gratification and using pockets of time for happiness are discussed, as is the importance of journaling, being kind, and saying thank you often.

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Charchil & Sagar talk about why we hesitate in getting help we really need, our fear of rejection, appearing needy or dumb and our ego, and perfecting the art of asking. They also talk about letting people help and why rejection is nothing personal.

Sagar & Charchil then talk about the 20s - everyone's decade of mistakes, heartbreaks and failures, and share how not being in a hurry, saying yes often and understand your values is important to making a grand entrance into your 30s.

Steve Jobs on Asking:

Amanda Plamer's TED Talk - The Art of Asking:

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Sagar & Charchil talk about how the need for perfection is what stops us from doing what we want to be doing, why we need to take projects as a learning opportunity, getting to Version 1 and the culture of perfection around us. Staying away from epic goals that lead to failure and why having your own inner circle or support group are discussed as two ways towards real success.

The discussion then moves to seeking validation from external sources vs creating actual, internal happiness. How our need for approval affects our lives and why creating internal love is difficult, yet rewarding are talked about.

96 Million Black Balls in LA reservoir:

Teen activist’s message on Climate Change:

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Sagar and Charchil talk about The Artist Way, a 12-week creativity course by Julia Cameron that helps open up creativity through its exercises and habits. They go into how morning pages work, how the journey helped birth a book, music and this podcast and the concept of artist dates and why they are so important.

They then pick up Morning Routines and why they matter. Charchil & Sagar share about journaling, gratitude, breathing exercises, meditation, the "win of the day technique", working out and sports, affirmations & incantations and reading a book, and how these may be added to your mornings to make each day as good as you want it to be. Plus, a quick discussion on how to stay away from mobile phones without losing your sanity.

The Artist Way by Julia Cameron:

Guided Meditation by Sam Harris: https://wakingup.com/

Muse Headband: https://choosemuse.com/

Todoist App for managing ToDo Lists: https://todoist.com/r/charchilgugalia_ofeehn

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Charchil & Sagar talk about missing small joys in life, watching star wars and being present in your daily life. Why do we not break our patterns and how travel can help bring change is discussed next, as well as how a thoughtful birthday gift or a handwritten thank you note helps break other people's patterns.

In the later half, the concept of abundance and its personal meaning for each and everyone of us is brought up. Both go over their personal experiences with keeping an abundance mindset, understanding your investment to bring abundance about and how being a giver matters the most in bringing abundance into your life.

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Charchil & Sagar announce "It's Me Time!", a collection of doodle prompts that help you connect to yourself. In this episode, they share how you can get a free copy.

Then follows a discussion about technology and social media and their effect on our focus and attention and how it leads to feeling alone and disappointed and why our imperfect world looks dull compared to perfect pictures everyone shares. Sagar shares his experience of completely giving up the smartphone for 3 months. They also share how to better manage the time we spend browsing using apps and easy techniques.

Putting things off until the last minute starts as a minor habit and turns into a huge problem as we grow older. Charchil & Sagar talk about their adventures in procrastination, working with and without deadlines, building accountability and how to get things done.

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