Jake Kahana

Lifestyle Design For A Feeling

 
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Episode Notes (by minute):

-2:30 - How Jake designs his life that includes goals for the last 12 years and a 25 year plan

-4:30 - How being a father has impacted Jake’s lifestyle design

-8:00 - What Jake has learned from some of David Cain’s, Raptitude work, on 1) the importance and benefits from small talk and 2) the importance of depth in your life

-11:00 - How Jake thinks about Stefan Sagmeister’s TED Talk and work on mini-retirements

-14:00 - What Jake has learned from David Brook’s book, The Second Mountain, and the importance of commitment in life and work, as opposed to the traditional corporate ladder mountain climbing

-16:00 - How Jake has divided his work into three categories and types of work

-17:00 - The important conversations and relationship that business partners have, as Jake talks about being a cofounder of CaveDay

-18:00 - How Jake believes that people often get stuck on having a perfect website or perfect branding, as opposed to doing the work and making progress from there

-21:00 - How personal and side projects results in positive and unplanned outcomes

-23:00 - How we often have non-linear career paths and we can only connect the dots looking backwards

-24:00 - How Jake thinks about the two different kinds of freelancers

-28:00 - How and why Jakes documents and reflects on where he spends so much of his time. "what we keep track of and what we pay attention to is how we spend our lives.”

-30:00 - Jake’s reflection and lessons learned after completing his 2019 annual review

=32:00 - How Jake thinks and evaluates his “wheel of life”

(Note: these are quick notes and takeaways by David Nebinski. Please see the episode for more accurate information)