471: Taylor Jacobson on Tools to Find Focus and Accountability

<p>Taylor&nbsp;Jacobson&nbsp;is the&nbsp;CEO and Founder of Focusmate&nbsp;(<a href="http://www.focusmate.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.focusmate.com</a>),&nbsp;a virtual coworking community with a mission to help everyone do their best work. Thousands of people in 193 countries worldwide sit side-by-side, via video, to keep each other company, cheer each other on, and hold one another accountable. Taylor is a passionate voice on creating soulful work and workplaces and&nbsp;has&nbsp;been featured in The New Yorker, CNN, The Guardian, NPR, Fast Company, Bloomberg Businessweek, and more.</p><p>In this episode,&nbsp;Eric and Taylor discuss his company, Focusmate, along with many useful ideas for designing the life you want to live.</p><p>But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed.&nbsp;<a href="https://oneyoufeed.net/support" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month.&nbsp;</a>It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!</p><p>Taylor Jacobson and I Discuss Tools to Find Focus and Accountability and…</p><ul><li>His company,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.focusmate.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Focusmate</a>, that he started to help himself and others to become more productive</li><li>The importance of feeling safe in a community in helping to accomplish your goals</li><li>Procrastination is an expression of feeling unsafe</li><li>How it’s difficult to focus when you’re feeling stressed or anxious</li><li>How having a morning routine is grounding and signals our body we’re safe and able to get started</li><li>Designing a life that demands what you want to give</li><li>Noticing when you need to make a shift and reinvent yourself</li><li>The ability to focus and the correlation to our nervous system</li><li>Fight or flight impulses&nbsp;</li><li>Learning to experience and re