The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell
Stories, tools, and resources for ambitious people who overthink, procrastinate, and lose hours to their phone or in their heads.
Hosted by Flint Mitchell, founder and head coach at iAlign, a coaching and software company working to help 1 billion people take 1 value based decision every day.
The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell
Latest Episodes
iAlign #76 - The Week You Overcommit Is A Pop Quiz
Right now I'm overcommitted as far as the hours I'm actually capable of working, which puts me somewhere I think is genuinely useful. A pop quiz in class counts for something but it isn't the test, and a math quiz is checking whether you can ru...
iAlign #75 - Your Mind Says Scroll. Ask For Another Thought.
It's Sunday at two in the afternoon, the espresso I drank didn't hit, and the back of my mind just suggested we sit down and watch TV instead, which is the exact moment this one is about. I've got control over 98 or 99 percent of those urges no...
iAlign #74 - How Many Backup Laptops Is Too Many
I'm filming this on my potato of an old laptop because I just poured a full glass of water onto my new one while moving a blanket, in a remote town in Chile about four hours south of Santiago by bus. The backup was basically the one thing I pla...
iAlign #73 - Nothing You Start Will Pay Off For Weeks
Everything in life has a three to four week lead time minimum, and the moment I actually accepted that about my own work is when I started making faster progress. Two things happen once you believe it. You have to filter much harder, because yo...
iAlign #72 - The Decision Took Two Seconds And Two Years
I spent two years deciding whether to apply to medical school, and I didn't spend them thinking. I volunteered in hospice care at 22, I shadowed surgeons in the fields I found interesting, and I studied for the MCAT while I was working as a res...