Chris Sparks is the right hand man to the entrepreneurs who are shaping the world, helping them build the habits and systems to maximize their time, focus, and energy towards building their businesses and designing their personal lives.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Charlie Munger
- Leonardo DaVinci
- Andrew Carnegie
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Transitioning from professional poker player to productivity coach was really challenging to me because it was becoming a beginner again, I was so used to being an expert, having everyone shut up when I started talking, looking to me. Doing something that I hadn’t done before and starting from scratch was emotionally really challenging, it was so different than anything I’ve ever done”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement Book by Eliyahu M. GoldrattFavourite Quote:
“If you can’t measure it you can’t improve it”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Evernote – Organize your work and declutter your life With Evernote on your desktop and mobile devices, your notes are always with you and always in sync
- Get Cold Turkey – Cold Turkey Blocker is a free productivity program that you can use to temporarily block distractions so that you can get your work done!
- Sleep apps
- Instapaper – A simple tool for saving web pages to read later on your iPhone, iPad, Android, computer, or Kindle
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“The important thing is to manage your priorities not your time, I think of our task lists as a power log distribution and that the most important thing I could be doing right now is more important than all of the other things combined, I think internalising opportunity cost is huge and we could literally be doing anything right now so in that sense what we are doing right now comes at the expense of doing everything else and if you’re doing something that’s low on the priority list, that has a really high unseen cost because every minute you spend on something that’s not important comes at the expense of something that is really important”…[Listen for More]
More About Chris Sparks:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.” Michael Haneke
Other Quotes From the Chat with Chris Sparks:
- “Whoever fails the most wins in the long run”
- “The secret is not searching for the secret and just doing the work”
- “Keeping up with change is a fool’s errand”
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