Death And The Copywriter: How To Manage Your Copywriting Business Better, Before You Die ('Four Thousand Weeks' Discussion)
One day, you will die.
But the statistics say that before that, you’ll spend about four thousand weeks on earth. This is the average human lifespan, and we fill it with emails, meetings, paperwork, queuing in airports, fighting with strangers over the Internet and sometimes, with doing things that are deeply meaningful to us and those we love. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals is a guide that says it’ll help you do more of the meaningful stuff.
On this week’s episode of the Tried It Podcast: Your Proven Pathway to a Better Copywriting Business, Sarah and Nicole discuss this philosophical guide to time management, covering some of Burkeman’s core principles and how to translate them into your own life and business. Get ready to learn about JOMO, creative neglect, manipulating the present moment and uncomfortable enlargement (no jokes please, The Tried It team managed to resist so you can too). At the end of the episode, the team share the implementation points they’ll work on before they, too, die.
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Timestamps
[0:30] Four Thousand Weeks: Not the length of time we’ll spend on this episode
[2:00] “Quite a book”: Nicole introduces Four Thousand Weeks
[4:40] What’s the significance of the title? A brief moment to dwell on time and death
[7:50] No, you don’t actually have time
[10:00] Burkeman’s approach to making the most of your time on this earth and your permission slip to procrastinate
[14:30] Comparing Four Thousand Weeks to other approaches to time management
[18:30] JOMO: Burkeman’s slightly weird approach to commitment
[23:00] Sarah and Nicole’s main criticisms of Four Thousand Weeks
[28:40] Who would benefit from the Four Thousand Weeks approach to time management?
[35:30] What stuck with Nicole and Sarah from the book
[39:20] Nicole’s three implementation points
[42:20] Sarah’s three implementation points
[49:45] Why you should check out the Tried It Podcast Membership
[53:10] Reach out to the Tried It team!
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This is the Tried It Podcast: Your Proven Pathway to a Better Copywriting Business. How do we know it works? Because we’ve Tried It.
We’re Nicole and Sarah, two copywriters on a mission to elevate your freelance copywriting game. We’re reading the great books about copywriting, marketing and business. Once we’ve read each book, we spend a hot minute applying the techniques we’ve learnt to our own businesses and to our client work. And then, we talk about it. We’re learning, out loud.
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Tried It: Your Proven Pathway to a Better Copywriting Business
Well hello there, copywriting friend!
This is the Tried It podcast: Your proven pathway to a better copywriting business. How do we know it works? Because we’ve Tried It.
We’re Nicole and Sarah, two copywriters on a mission to elevate your freelance copywriting game. We’re reading the great books about copywriting, marketing and business. Once we’ve read each book, we spend a hot minute applying the techniques we’ve learnt to our own businesses and to our client work. And then, we talk about it. We’re learning, out loud.
Join us on our journey to polish up our copywriting skills, every episode! You’ll get actionable copywriting techniques, real-life case studies, business advice, mindset reframes and marketing strategies.
Join our membership to get access to the Tried It weekly newsletter, as well as the chance to pick our brains and to vote for the next book we talk about on the Tried It podcast. It’s your commitment to becoming a better copywriter.
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