EP423: Sam Bennett - The Secret To Getting Things Done RIGHT NOW!

Sam Bennett with Forwardly ad (June 18): Spend 15 minutes a day, every single day, on something that matters to you. I don't care if it matters to anybody else. It might, but something that matters to you. And preferably do all this before you check your email, but that's up to you. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer. Today's show is going to be a great one. Our guest is the author of The 15-Minute Method: The Surprisingly Simple Art of Getting It Done. Sam Bennett, welcome to the show. Thank you so much, Michael. Hi, everybody. Thanks for being here. Yes, yes. And it's great to have you. And I know getting things done is something our audience loves. I'm sure many audiences love getting things done. Maybe not so much every audience, but it's a big— a big topic. It's discussed often, and I'm looking forward to this conversation. So before we get into learning how to get it done more simply, uh, tell us about you and how you ended up writing this book.

Ad Read: It was completely inadvertent. I, I— this was not my plan, but it's worked out great. Um, yeah, I started out as an actor. I was one of those kids who did plays in the living room, in the backyard, and went to theater camp and did all the plays in school, and then went You know, and then went on to be an actor in Chicago and then Los Angeles. And, you know, did a lot of theater, did a lot of drama for the radio, did a lot, did a fair amount of television. So I had one of those acting careers that, you know, it went well enough that you didn't want to give up on it, but not so well as to be able to support a person. Right. And along the way, I just got really interested in this question of How do overthinkers, people with a lot of ideas, highly creative people, people with a lot of talents and skills, how do they make decisions? How do you know what to do and when to do it? I would read all these— I mean, I was always pretty good about getting things done and managing projects and producing shows and moving forward in my life, but I had a lot of highly creative friends that weren't, you know, and