488: Finding The Productivity System That Works for You with Asian Efficiency’s Thanh Pham (Host of The Productivity Show)
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How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Thanh Pham from Asian Efficiency shares his expert tips and favorite resources for optimal productivity.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The biggest productivity myth.
2) How to be more productive while doing less.
3) A simple productivity tip to exponentially improve your focus.
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— ABOUT THANH —
Thanh is the Founder and Managing Director of Asian Efficiency. He is considered one of the top thought leaders in the productivity industry and he has been featured in Fast Company, Inc.com,Forbes, Huffington Post, and The Globe & Mail. On a day-to-day basis, he is responsible for executing the company’s mission and helping people become more Asian Efficient.
When he’s not sharing his newest productivity wisdom, he likes to drink lots of green tea, eat eggs benedict at hotels, make video blogs, and read non-fiction books.
• Thanh’s podcast: The Productivity Show
• Thanh’s website: Asian Efficiency
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• App: TextExpander
• App: OmniFocus
• App: BusyCal
• App: BusyContacts
• Product: Bose QuietComfort 35 II Wireless Smart Headphones
• Website: Brain.fm
• Website: Focus@Will
• Website: GreatAssistant.com
• Book: 30 Lessons for Living by Karl Pillemer, Ph. D.
• Book: The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others do in 12 Months by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington
• Book: Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Timeby Brian Tracy
• Prior episode: 339: Achieving Hyperfocus with Chris Bailey
• Prior episode: 421: Why Great Leaders Have No Rules with Kevin Kruse
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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. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, thanks so much for joining us here |
| 0:21.0 | for episode 488 with Tan Fam. |
| 0:23.4 | Tan has spent years researching and writing about productivity |
| 0:27.6 | and so we're going to hear from his wisdom. |
| 0:30.1 | You'll learn one, the biggest productivity myth, two, how to be more productive while doing less and three a simple |
| 0:36.8 | productivity tip to exponentially improve your focus so if you want to check out the show |
| 0:41.5 | notes with the transcript or the links to |
| 0:42.8 | items we've referenced it's at all cement your job dot com slash f-488 now here's |
| 0:47.1 | tan story tan is the founder and managing director of Asian efficiency he is |
| 0:51.0 | considered one of the top thought leaders in the productivity industry and has been featured in Fast Company, |
| 0:55.6 | Inc. Forbes, Huffington Post and The Globe and Mail. On a day-to-day basis, he's responsible for executing the company's mission |
| 1:01.1 | and helping people become more Asian efficient. |
| 1:04.0 | When he's not sharing his newest productivity wisdom, he likes to drink lots of green tea, eat eggs, |
| 1:08.8 | Benedictate hotels, make video blogs, and read non-fiction books. |
| 1:12.8 | Big thanks to Tan for spending some time with us and big thanks to our sponsors. |
| 1:16.2 | Check them out. |
| 1:18.2 | Now, here's Tan. |
| 1:20.2 | Tan, thanks for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 1:24.3 | Thank you, Pete, for having me. |
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