393: Freeing Up Extra Time Through Optimizing, Automating, and Outsourcing with Ari Meisel
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 24 January 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Ari Meisel breaks down his secrets to greater productivity…from virtual assistants, to the best productivity apps, to easier ways to make decisions.
You’ll Learn:
1) How working at your peak time makes you many times more effective
2) The power of the 20-second rule
3) Why you should consider using virtual assistants
About Ari
Ari is the best-selling author of “The Art of Less Doing“, and “The Replaceable Founder.” He is a self-described Overwhelmologist whose insights into personal and professional productivity have earned him the title, “The Guru’s Guru.” He can be heard on the award-winning Less Doing Podcast, on international stages speaking to thought leaders and influencers, and for those who prefer the written word, Ari’s blog posts on Medium offer immediate and actionable advice for entrepreneurs seeking replaceability.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
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- Ari’s website: www.LessDoing.com
- Mini course: www.Less.do/Foundations
- Ari’s book: The Art Of Less Doing: One Entrepreneur’s Formula for a Beautiful Life
- Ari’s course: Replaceable Founder
- Tool: RescueTime
- Tool: OmniFocus
- Tool: Evernote
- Tool: Trello
- Tool: Magic
- Tool: www.OnlineJobs.ph
- Research: The Zeigarnik Effect Explained
- Book: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
- Book: Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein
- Book: Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
- Previous episode: 015: David Allen, The World’s Leading Authority on Productivity
- Previous episode: 063: The Optimal Time For Everything with Dr. Michael Breus
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode |
| 0:22.0 | 393 with Ari Misele. |
| 0:23.4 | Ari is all about less doing and optimizing and automating and outsourcing so you'll learn |
| 0:29.8 | one how working at your peak time makes you many times more effective. |
| 0:33.6 | Two, the power of the 22nd rule, |
| 0:35.6 | and three, why you should consider using virtual assistance. |
| 0:39.3 | So if you let take a look at the show notes |
| 0:40.7 | or the transcript or the links to Adams we've referenced |
| 0:42.9 | you'll find that on over at awesome at your job.com slash f393 and if you're |
| 0:47.5 | visiting awesome at your job.com I encourage you to check out some of our nifty |
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| 1:19.9 | over awesome at your job.com. Now here's Ari's story. |
| 1:23.2 | Ari Misele is the best-selling author of The Art of Less Doing and The |
| 1:27.1 | Replaceable founder. |
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